User:J.M. Matthews

Joseph Matthew Alberts (J.M. Matthews) is a North American multiracial author, cartoonist, diarist, engineer, inventor, fantasy and science fiction writer, dramatic animation spec script screenwriter, illustrator, app developer, blogger, producer, and filmmaker, primarily known in the webcomics, anime fan, American manga, and internet communities. He is the author of several pulp-influenced and inspired book, comics, manga, and short stories, including End Times and Mono Jubei, one of the pioneering post-apocalyptic works and archetypal fiction and fantasy characters of the early 21st Century. He was also an early and pioneering contributor to YouTube streaming video uploading technology.

Birth
Born in the United States, JM grew up speaking fluent American English, and was born and adopted in Ann Arbor Michigan, in Ypsilanti County, adopted at the University of Michigan Hospital, spent his early childhood years living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, moving with his parents before the age of 5 to Central Florida.

DNA and Ethnic National Origin, potential ties to Thomas Merton
JM has “hidden genetic lineage” that traces back over many centuries to Great Britain, France, Australia, Mongolia, Berber, Tunisia, Morocco, and parts of Africa numerous centuries ago, according to a DNA test he once took as part of the National Geographic Genographic Project. JM's British biological father, Glendis Sorrell, whom JM never met when his father was alive, built automobiles for a living in the local Michigan automotive factory, according to his death certificate, and at another point practiced Catholicism as a “Trappist monk” according to my JM's biological mother Marriane B. Gabel. Who also claimed Joseph is one of the grandchildren of Thomas Merton, famed religious figure and the world's most famous Christian Monk.

Early years, Early Schooling, Preschool
Upon the start of his childhood growing up in Florida, JM attended preschool in Maitland, where he met one of his two lifelong best friends, Chris, and after that, attended elementary schooling, in Seminole, where JM Matthews still lives today. In Elementary School, JM excelled in writing and art, and got very good grades received early high praise from teachers, which left a strong formative impression on JM's confidence as an artist.. After that, JM attended Middle School, where he was was tested to have an I.Q. Of 130, and promoted to gifted classes as a result, for English and Science and maintained a generally positive relationship with friends and classmates. This was where JM met his other best friend, a local musician and aspiring comedian in his school named Johnny. In middle school, JM's parents purchased him a drumset, and he excelled at English and rhythmic orchestral percussion in extracurricular band class, including snare drum, tamborine, bass drum, triangle and bells. J.M. realized he had an advanced understanding of rhythmic percussion and musical composition by this point. He began listening to alternative rock CDs along with his classmates, and began studying the work of highly complex and established professional drummers and percussionists in the rock genre, including Jimmy Chamberlin of The Smashing Pumpkins, Tim Alexander of Primus, Carter Beauford of Dave Matthews Band, and the musical scores and composition of rhythm centric-composer Danny Elfman. The Middle School JM attend had a vibrant music program, but didn’t have any art classes or art teachers at the time, so most of JM's early art and drawing was drawn and sketched during classes he found boring, on notebook paper, where JM drew cartoons and comics he shared with his friends and classmates, who all strongly admired his artistic abilities and often requested drawings from him. After JM graduated Middle School where he got most of his good grades, JM unsuccessfully attended a local public High School, which he found quite unnerving personally. It was harsher, more aggressive, and harder to pass classes and there was more bullying amongst his classmates than JM had previously seen before in his earlier middle school and elementary adolescence in the mid 90s. Upon absence from school for psychiatric hospitalization from a full blown nervous breakdown caused by the stress of school, JM and was forced by his parents to transfer to a much smaller private charter school. What people in the current media now refer to as "secular charter schools". JM Had a much more positive experience in charter school than public community high school, and to everyone's surprise, began excelling academically and making a lot of friends in his classes again, with very little hostility towards himself to be found at the time in 2000 and 2001, with few exceptions. One of JMs older classmates, Amanda, coincidentally had also transferred schools for personal problems as JM had, also attended the same charter school as well as the same middle school as JM. After they went to high school together with everyone else at the school, JM and Amanda would go on to bond later on, and become very close friends.

Adolescence to Young Adulthood, Animation Lessons. Attendance at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Second Nervous Breakdown
JM graduated from his charter school class as a salutatorian, the second highest ranking Grade Point Average in his high school class, which later led to JM receiving a fully paid scholarship to the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, based on good word of mouth from J.M.'s early 2000s art mentor, Animation industry veteran Phil Ferretti who had worked as an intern on Nickelodeon's first Nicktoon, DOUG, and the MTV Animation series, Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head, in the mid and early 90s. Upon graduation from Center Academy, after a mid-sized hiatus upon receiving his high school diploma from private high school, JM applied to and submitted his portfolio to 2 art schools, the Ringling School of Art and Design, and the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale (AiFL). JM was rejected by Ringling, but gained acceptance to and invariably studying for a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) In the Media Arts and Animation program, time as a popular man on campus, and local legend among 2002 attendees, where JM met an equally rebellious female friend named Nicole Cook who was studying Photography, and J.M. lived in a room with roommate John Miller who was also studying Media Arts and Animation. Once again, psychological disaster struck without much warning, as JM had another nervous breakdown in art school, and was taken out of art school only to be "baker acted" by Florida's medical community, a medical and psychiatric law only legal in Florida, and dumped in a psychiatric ward in Orlando, mostly for not returning his adoptive parents phonecalls from his house in Casselberry attempting to maintain communication with him,, and neglected schoolwork and instead of working on school projects. JM got distracted and would loiter and socialize with dorm neighbors a lot at the Sunrise Hall Living Quarters Apartment. JM's dorm neighbors liked him a lot, and he achieved a newly discovered popularity in AiFL Art school for the most part, and was very popular in art school, a “star” at the school and dorm, where he achieved some local fame in art school, but was forced to make an early exit, as he came under a lot of fire and medical pressure from his parents back home for socializing "too much and at unwanted times." JM was both one of the most disruptive students his art school had ever seen, and one of its most famous, well liked, popular, and high achieving, as he didn't just goof off. Half of JM's time was spent sketching across campus. Just not for schoolwork. In retrospective, J.M. found it odd how obsessed his adoptive parents had become over J.M. medical and psychiatric "maintenance" to the point of dismissing the creative and spiritual elements of his academic pursuits.

2002, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Dropout Recovery Period
Upon returning home, JM entered a dark dark period of his life where he lived in my parents house to this day mostly, attended night classes in film, music, and art, at a downtown community college. His neighbors in Casselberry, and neighborhood teenage thugs, who were local Floridian racists, anti-semitic, white nationalists, drug addicts, and bigots, began bullying J.M. and attacking his computer with viruses and stealing his adoptive father's WIFI, on a continually aggressive manner in a way they never had before he had lived in Fort Lauderdale or previously in Casselberry. Casselberry was encountering a racist and bigoted uprising which is had never encountered before

2008 Working in Television, Anime Dubbing Studio Bang Zoom!, Anime Review Show Writer on AnimeTV
In 2008, J.M. ended up writing online reviews for the TV show AnimeTV, hosted by anime veteran voice actor-celebrity Johnny Young Bosch, and produced by producer Eric P. Sherman and his anime dubbing studio, Bang Zoom Entertainment of Los Angeles, where despite much difficulty, continued to pursue his career goals in entertainment, animation, anime, co-productions, manga, and comics. Both celebrities were industry vets J.M. would have something of a falling out with upon the failure of AnimeTV to achieve a real audience, a conflict arising more from circumstance than actual animosity.

END TIMES Manga, Indie Comic and Pulp Literature Series
In 2004, JM began work on what would become my would-be magnum opus and one of my most popular projects of all time: Parallax or "END TIMES" as it came to become known by others. JM's comic, that was heavily influenced and inspired by his love for the aesthetics of action movies and cartoons, manga, and anime.

DVD Authoring and Video Engineering Career
In 2005, JM ended up an engineer alongside being an artist-writer-creator also began experimenting with DVD authoring software, which was the first example of his engineering skills put to work, when JM made his own DVD of video taken directly from websites and made into a DVD film he created at home from scratch on no budget, of what was primarily footage of Toonami and Adult Swim interstitials he found on early Apple-based video websites. And then a miracle happened.

YouTube and Google Career, Beginning of Copyrighted Video Content Uploading on YouTube
Rolling Stone, which had helped JM in the past, helped JM once again a thousand times over by making him aware of a new website that was “turning normal everyday people into worldwide Hollywood players. YouTube.” This sounded intriguing to JM, so JM went online to investigate. Lo and behold, what JM found there was a fledgling website in 2005, YouTube that was openly accepting video uploads from anyone for anything at the time. It made no mention of copyright or anime, so JM figured what the hell, I’ll give it a try. Then without hesitation JM began uploading much of the footage from his video collection off of Adult Swim and Toonami sites, and leftover footage from his “TV-DVD” tech invention prototype he had produced months earlier. JM WAS looking for exposure for his anime filmmaking skills and YouTube seemed like just such an outlet. People took notice, and the rest, as they say, is online and digital anime history.

SplitAtomBoom YouTube Channel
J.M.'s YouTube channel, SplitAtomBoom, received over 647,000 views (more than half a million) and 1 million minutes of viewership. Primarily for his immensely popular and commented on Gorillaz “Clint Eastwood” video, as well as hosting the entire second season of the popular noir anime Big O 2. But as many YouTube anime uploads sites go, was eventually taken down by youtube over copyright conflicts between J.M. and YouTube to be replaced by a less popular channel with far fewer uploads.

Amazon
J.M. is the author of numerous published books and Kindle eBooks, Including to Amazon genre bestsellers. His books include Art Manifested: The Art of J.M. Matthews, an art book (first edition; Kindle Second ebook second edition), End Times (One Shot), the bestselling Kindle manga graphic novel, End Times: Anthology, MONO: The Anthology Megamix, and the 4,000+ page Journals Volume 1-4 Quadrilogy. all published through Amazon.

Other Writing Venues
Print versions of many of J.M. Matthews books and cartoons can be purchased and found at Lulu and his writing can be found on such sites as Blogspot, as well as his J.M. Matthews account at the literary website Scribd.