Bob Kline is a thirty-three year veteran of the animation business. From 1973 to 1987 he worked at a variety of studios that produced series television animation. They included Filmation, Ruby & Spears and Marvel. His job titles during those years included layout artist, storyboard artist, storyboard supervisor, development artist, key background painter, and character designer. Among the shows Bob contributed to are Star Trek: The Animated Series, Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids, The New Adventures of Batman, Tarzan, Lord Of The Jungle, Blackstar, Flash Gordon, He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe, Thundarr The Barbarian, GI Joe, Dungeons & Dragons, Muppet Babies, My Little Pony, Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series. In 1987, Disney Television Animation hired Bob. His initial involvement was on the first season of the New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh series doing storyboards and design development. Following that he did storyboards for Adventures of The Gummi Bears, and development art for TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck. After that he became development art director contributing to such projects as Bonkers and Gargoyles. As a producer/director Bob helmed Belle's Magical World. As director, he worked on several episodes of Gargoyles and Hercules: The Series. Prior to taking on the art direction chores for Cinderela III: A Twist In Time, Bob was an art director on Mickey, Donald & Goofy - The Three Musketeers. Bob spent four years in the Air Force as an illustrator, and attended both the California State University at Long Beach and the Art Center College of Design. In the late sixties and early seventies Bob contributed to several fanzines including G.B. Love’s The Rocket’s Blast Comic Collector, Jan Strnad’s Anomly and Gary Groth’s The Fantastic Fanzine.
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