Gábor Csupó
Gabor Csupo (Hungarian: Gábor Csupo, born September 29, 1952 in Budapest) is a Hungarian animator, writer, director and music producer.
Life
Gabor Csupo attended art school for four years before, in 1971, his training in animation began at the Pannonia Film Studios. In 1975 he left the communist Hungary. Together with four other artists (including Leslie Mandoki ) he fled through a darkened railway tunnel to Austria. After stopovers in West Germany and Denmark, he finally landed in Stockholm. There he worked in an animation studio of a friend and learned in 1978 his future wife and business partner Arlene Klasky know. In 1979 he moved to Hollywood, where he married Arlene Klasky and at the Hanna -Barbera studios worked as an animator. In 1981 he founded with his wife, the animation studio Klasky Csupo.
The breakthrough had the studio in 1988 with the Simpsons shorts that were seen in the Tracey Ullman Show. He was hired as a producer for the first three seasons of the series The Simpsons The success of the shorts. In the following years, the studio produced, among others, the Rugrats, Duckman, and Aaahh the! Monster.
In 1994 he founded the record label Tone Casualties, with whom he published experimental music by Holger Czukay, Drew Neumann, Paul Schütze, Kuroi Mori, Borut Krzisnik, Wahorn, Controlled Bleeding and his own work. Gabor Csupo also designed the cover of the album released in 1996, The Lost Episodes his deceased friend, Frank Zappa.
He has five children, two of them by his business partner and ex-wife Arlene Klasky and three by his second wife Bret Crain.