Bob Burden is an American comic book artist and writer, best known as the creator of Flaming Carrot Comics and the Mysterymen.
Born in Buffalo NY in 1952, Burden grew up in the industrial rust belt of the great Northeast. After 20 years of Buffalo, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, Milwaukee, Akron and Sharon, Pennsylvania, he moved south to Atlanta, where he has lived since. In 1976, Bob graduated from University Of Georgia, in Athens with a degree in Journalism and minors in Advertising and Political Science.
Burden’s best-known creation, Flaming Carrot, has received some scholarly recognition: a cover story and interview in Atlanta's prestigious Art Papers; an original cover drawing in Sotheby's art auction; and reviews in The Village Voice literary supplement. Flaming Carrot even appeared as a Jeopardy! answer.
Burden's Mysterymen was the subject of a 1999 film adaptation, directed by Kinka Usher and starring.
Besides Flaming Carrot Comics and Mysterymen, Burden wrote an award-winning Gumby story, a two part Cholly & Flytrap story with Arthur Suydam, and Robot Comics', a series which was reprised in the "Robot Crime" story for the 20th anniversary of Heavy Metal.
Bob Burden has also produced some prose work, including a short story called You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine and an anthology of short stories by various writers, including Stephen King called Dark Love from Penguin Books.
Bob Burden's works have won numerous awards including the Ignatz Award, the Inkpot Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comic Arts, the ACE award, and perhaps the most prestigious award in comics, the Will Eisner Comics Industry Award for the Best Single Issue ("Gumby's Summer Fun Special"). Burden also had two 1998 Eisner Award Nominations for Invincible Man and Flaming Carrot's Greatest Hits Volume Three.
Burden also inadvertently affected the name of the character and TV show on the world famous cartoon,SpongeBob SquarePants, for Stephen Hillenburg had thought up the name SpongeBoy, and later found out that Bob Burden had trademarked the name. Then, he thought about Bob and SpongeBoy and thought up SpongeBob! It was only one letter away!
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