Quick Facts
Biography
Dan Fraga (born June 19, 1973) is a Film Director and comic book artist. He was hired fresh out of high school by Image Comics in 1991 and worked for Extreme Studios.His interest in animation started at an early age, when his parents bought him a Fisher-Price Movie Viewer, then comics which inspired him to make flip books. He started drawing story boards for The Hard Times of RJ Berger and made a one-minute pilot animation which became a television series screened on MTV.
I love all things animation and made it my mission to learn all that I could about the different kinds that are out there and the histories behind the masterpieces we all love.
Career
Dan Fraga began his career in the entertainment field as a storyboard artist for commercials and music videos. He has worked on many comics like Spider-Man, Wolverine and Bloodstrike. Other career highlights include working on story boards for Hershey's, Victoria's Secret, and music videos for top artist Justin Timberlake and also Beyoncé. During his time as a storyboard artist, Dan took on several other responsibilities including set design, visual effects supervision and 2nd unit directing.
I've always been a fan of storytelling. Visual storytelling specifically. I work in animation which is a very rewarding field for lovers of storytelling and art."
Television
Fraga made his directing debut in 2009 on the MTV show The Hard Times of RJ Berger handling the animation duties for the show. There were two seasons about a 15-year-old unpopular RJ Berger who becomes infamous after an embarrassing incident. Each episode featured live action intermixed with different styles of animation.
He directed the second and third season of the HBO series The Ricky Gervais Show (animated series) which were voiced by Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. The series was an animated version of The Ricky Gervais Show using audio from previously recorded live radio shows, podcasts and audiobooks.
Web Comic
The Grave, a web comic published a panel every day for a year, was Fraga project that started in January 2013, after a long absence from comics.
As far as the last thing I worked on in comics that was in print, that was Black Panther #50 which came out in August of 2002. It's been 13 and 1/2 years.
The Grave follows a group of kids on a camping trip find a grave with a fully clothed skeleton and a cigar box containing seven items. The boys figure out the life of the person behind the grave using clues from the items.
"The Grave is about the lessons in life that we're supposed to learn, it's about transformation within ourselves, and ultimately human nature.