Thomas Warkentin had worked in animation for more than thirteen years after a diverse earlier career in technical illustrating, advertising, album cover design and magazine illustration, among other artistic endeavors. He wrote and drew the 'Star Trek' newspaper strip from 1979 to 1981 and scripted the 'Flash Gordon' strip between 1991 and 1995 (art by an Argentine studio). He worked for ten years at Warner Bros. doing key background design on such shows as 'Tiny Toons', 'Animaniacs', 'Superman', 'Freakazoid', 'Good Feathers', 'Road Rovers', 'Histeria', and 'Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries', and then most recently at Disney on 'The Weekenders'.