--Paraphrased from Teresa Porteous, Art Instructor
Holly High School Senior Awards Assembly, 2005

Email: wheretheresawil (AT) gmail.com

Wil Brendel is a 22-year-old illustrator, and a September 2008 graduate of the Illinois Institute of Art - Schaumburg with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Media Arts & Animation. Wil is a character and comics artist primarily, and also has skills in digital painting, animating in both 2D and 3D, typography, web design, video/audio editing, and clay sculpting.
Wil's first original comic strips were created circa 1997, and he was first published in The Community Voice, the former newspaper of Holly, Michigan, circa 2001. His most ambitious acheivement in comics to date is the completion of www.fireball20xl.com's Sonic the Hedgehog fan graphic novel, Chaos Diamonds 3 written by Psyguy.
Currently, Wil is working with Eric Rampson, a Chicago-based writer on a new comic book series called The Redeemers, with a tentative launch of issue one in October of 2009. He also does freelance illustration, and still works with Psyguy and the Fireball20xl.com website.

Where There's A Wil Productions is the umbrella website for Wil Brendel's self-produced web comics and online portfolio. The site has been home to multiple comic series over the years, and will surely be home to more. As of this writing, the four main series of WTAW are Evertropolis, the saga of a young man and his friends' adventure to save the world from political corruption, currently on hiatus while the script is reworked. Enter Clear Bowl, a Sunday-comics-style series about a group of misfits who all work or hang out in the titular bowling alley. Randomosity is a comic whose subject matter changes with every new strip. Topics covered include video game inside jokes, Harry Potter book release hysteria, movie releases, and general cartoon antics. Finally, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga! is a fan comic written by Psyguy of www.fireball20xl.com about the heroes in a half-shell created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

Personal Statistics
Birthday: June 6
Current Residence: Holly, MI
Hometown: Holly, MI
Art Tools: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Toshiba Tablet PC, sketch pens, Sharpies, mechanical pencils, Prismacolor pencils and markers
Artistic Influences: Jim Davis, Akira Toriyama, Peter Laird, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Paul Harmon, Dan Berger, Patrick "Spaz" Spaziante
Favorite Movies: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films, the Back to the Future trilogy, Christopher Nolan's Batman series, Wall-E, The Incredibles, Ghostbusters, Clerks I & II, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mystery Men, Tommy Boy, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Superbad, Kill Bill Vol 1 & 2
Favorite Television: Family Guy, The Mole, Home Improvement, Overhaulin', The Amazing Race, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Dexter's Laboratory, Animaniacs, The Brak Show, Heroes
Favorite Music: Relient K, Weird Al Yankovic, Tenacious D, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Bowling for Soup, Foo Fighters, Barenaked Ladies
Favorite Games: Super Smash Brothers, Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda, Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Pokemon, Skies of Arcadia, Sonic the Hedgehog, Paper Mario, Scrabble, Euchure, Five Card Stud
Favorite Books: The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling, Watchmen by Alan Moore, The Death and Life of Superman by Roger Stern, Batman: Year One by Frank Miller, Superfudge by Judy Blume, Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman, Tales of the TMNT from Mirage Studios