--Paraphrased from Teresa Porteous, Art Instructor
Holly High School Senior Awards Assembly, 2005

Email: wheretheresawil@gmail.com

Wil Brendel is a 21-year-old illustrator, and a September 2008 graduate of the Illinois Institute of Art - Schaumburg with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Media Arts & Animation. Wil is a character and comics artist primarily, and also has skills in digital painting, animating in both 2D and 3D, typography, web design, video/audio editing, and clay sculpting.
Wil's first original comic strips were created circa 1997, and he was first published in The Community Voice, the former newspaper of Holly, Michigan, circa 2001. Currently, his most ambitious acheivement in comics is the completion of www.fireball20xl.com's Sonic the Hedgehog fan graphic novel, Chaos Diamonds 3 written by Psyguy.
Currently, Wil is seeking employment in comic book pencilling/inking, film storyboarding, or concept artwork, but is also open to other positions complementing his skillset. For personal statistics about Wil, scroll down this page.

Where There's A Wil Productions is the umbrella website for Wil Brendel's self-produced web comics and online portfolio. The site has been home to multiple comic series over the years, and will surely be home to more. As of this writing, the four main series of WTAW are Evertropolis, the saga of a young man and his friends' adventure to save the world from political corruption, currently on hiatus while the script is reworked. Enter Clear Bowl, a Sunday-comics style series about a group of misfits who all work or hang out in a bowling alley. Randomosity is a comic whose subject matter changes with every new strip. Topics covered include video game inside jokes, Harry Potter book release hysteria, movie releases, and general cartoon antics. Finally, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga! is a fan comic written by Psyguy of www.fireball20xl.com about the heroes in a half shell created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.

Birthday: June 6
Current Residence: Holly, MI
Hometown: Holly, MI
Art Tools: Adobe Photoshop CS3, Toshiba Tablet PC, sketch pens, Sharpies, mechanical pencils, Prismacolor pencils and markers
Artistic influences: Jim Davis, Akira Toriyama, Peter Laird, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Frank Miller, Mike Mignola
Hobbies: Movies, video games, graphic design, novels, comic books, bowling, pretending I can play acoustic guitar
Movies: Kill Bill Vol. I, Star Wars series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series (sans 3), Pixar productions, The Matrix series, Ghostbusters, Superbad, Tommy Boy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 300, Cris Nolan's Batman series, Spider-Man 2, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Back to the Future Trilogy
Television: Family Guy, Home Improvement, The Mole, Futurama, Dexter's Laboratory, The Boondocks, The Amazing Race
Music: Relient K, Weird Al Yankovic, Tenacious D, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Linkin Park, Bowling for Soup
Games: Super Smash Brothers, Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda, Dance Dance Revolution, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Pokemon, Skies of Arcadia, Sonic the Hedgehog, Dr. Mario