Jeff Balke is coming to GSCF Summer 2025
Jeff Balke is coming to GSCF Summer 2025
Jeff Balke is an entrepreneur, writer, voice actor and upcoming producer/director of his own animations. He founded his own animation studio, Jeff Balke Studios, which focuses on 2D Animation (using what he calls, Digital Cel Animation). He’s created a number of characters, but is best known for Stanley and Friends (Stanley Squirrel, Natasha Squirrel, Chester, Baby Fang, Billy Billington and Bandit). Currently in the works, is his first Stop Motion animation featuring his very own Dancing Skeletons and, 2D animation starting Stanley and Friends with his own original music and story. In addition to creating animation, his studio also creates their all ages comics, published and produced by Storm King Productions. The first comic (Stanley’s Ghost) was Eisner nominated, which kicked off their annual Halloween comics featuring Stanley and Friends. Coming soon, he has a new line of kids’ books featuring his own Fairytale Land. Jeff Balke Studios was founded in 2015 while Jeff was working as an Award Winning Comic Book Colorist. He’s worked on hundreds of comics, and has worked with companies such as Marvel, Image, Zenescope, and Storm King Productions just to name a few. He was nominated twice for the Eagle Awards for Best Comic Book Colorist, and won the Shel Dorf Award in 2011 for Colorist of the Year. In 2007, the beginning of his career, he created Sketch ColoringTM (HIS version of commissions now called Original Hand Coloring) where he hand colors using markers on black and white comic covers (which has expanded into prints, posters etc.) making each one unique and one of a kind. You can follow Jeff Balke Studios on FaceBook, YouTube and Instagram at: JeffBalkeStudios. You can also go to www.jeffbalkestudios.com.