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Rafael Rosado

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Rafael Rosado is a Puerto Rico-born animation director, storyboard artist, and graphic novelist based in Columbus, Ohio.1 He is best known in the animation industry for his work as Supervising Director on Extreme Ghostbusters and as Producer on Men in Black: The Animated Series,2 and in publishing as the illustrator and co-creator of the Chronicles of Claudette middle-grade graphic novel series.3

Contents

  1. Early life and education
  2. Career
    1. Graphic novels
  3. Ghostbusters
    1. Supervising Director
    2. Director
    3. Storyboard Artist
  4. References
  5. Footnotes

Early life and education

Rosado was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in a family with a strong artistic tradition: his father, uncle, and grandfather were all artists, and an older brother cultivated an early interest in comics.1 He later moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he studied film at Ohio State University.1 It was there that he met writer Jorge Aguirre, a creative partnership that would eventually produce the Chronicles of Claudette graphic novel series.1

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Career

Rosado began his professional career at Character Builders, a Columbus-based animation studio, starting as an assistant animator.1 He steadily advanced through the ranks to become a character designer, storyboard artist, and commercial director.1 During his time at Character Builders he worked on several television productions including the Emmy Award-winning Fox series Life With Louie, HBO's Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, and Fox's Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?1

In 1994 Rosado left Character Builders to join Warner Bros. Animation in Los Angeles. There he served as a storyboard artist on Pinky and the Brain and the Emmy-nominated Animaniacs, for which he also wrote two episodes.

He was subsequently recruited by the Sony Television Animation division, where he worked across eleven productions.2 His directing credits during this period include episodes of CBS's Project GeeKeR and NBC's Sammy.2 He was promoted to Supervising Director on Extreme Ghostbusters and then to Producer on Men in Black: The Animated Series.2

After approximately five years in Los Angeles, Rosado moved back to Columbus to raise his family.1 Since returning to Ohio he has continued working as a freelance storyboard artist for major studios including Warner Bros., The Walt Disney Company, Sony, Universal, and Cartoon Network.4 His television storyboard credits span a wide range of genres and include The Boondocks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Batman, The Venture Bros., Curious George, Teen Titans, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Scooby-Doo, and Beethoven.1 His short film The Tortured Clown was acquired by and featured on the Sundance Channel.

Graphic novels

Alongside his animation career Rosado co-created and illustrated the Chronicles of Claudette series of middle-grade graphic novels, written by Jorge Aguirre and published by First Second Books (an imprint of Macmillan):3

  • Giants Beware! (2012): the debut volume received a starred review from Publishers Weekly5 and was nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award.6
  • Dragons Beware! (2015)
  • Monsters Beware!

A separate young adult graphic novel, Call Me Iggy, set in Columbus, was subsequently developed with Aguirre.7

Ghostbusters

Rosado joined the Extreme Ghostbusters production at Sony Television Animation, rising to Supervising Director over the course of the series' 1997 run. In that capacity he both supervised and directed individual episodes, and contributed as a storyboard artist on several others.

Supervising Director

  • Bird of Prey
  • Seeds of Destruction
  • In Your Dreams
  • Fall Out
  • Eyes of a Dragon
  • Dog Days
  • Back in the Saddle: Part 2

Director

  • Darkness at Noon: Part 1
  • Darkness at Noon: Part 2
  • True Face of a Monster
  • The Pied Piper of Manhattan

Storyboard Artist

  • Darkness at Noon: Part 1
  • Darkness at Noon: Part 2
  • Ghost in the Machine

Following Extreme Ghostbusters, Rosado was promoted to Producer on Men in Black: The Animated Series, which was produced by the same Sony Television Animation unit.2

References

Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.

Footnotes

  1. The Columbus Scribbler, "10 Questions with Rafael Rosado" (September 10, 2019). https://columbusscribbler.com/interview/10-questions-with-rafael-rosado/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  2. IMDb, "Rafael Rosado," accessed 2026-06-13. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740928/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. Jorge Aguirre (writer) and Rafael Rosado (illustrator). Giants Beware! (Chronicles of Claudette vol. 1). First Second Books (Macmillan), New York, 2012. ISBN 9781596435827. ↩ ↩2

  4. Columbus Underground, "Columbus Makes Art Presents Rafael Rosado, Cartoonist and Storyboard Artist" (August 28, 2024). https://columbusunderground.com/columbus-makes-art-presents-rafael-rosado-cartoonist-and-storyboard-artist-gc24/ ↩

  5. Publishers Weekly, starred review of Giants Beware! (2012). "Comedy and fairy tale sensibilities balance perfectly in this exciting debut by writer Aguirre and illustrator Rosado." ↩

  6. Texas Library Association, Texas Bluebonnet Award 2013-2014 Master List. https://txla.org/reading-lists/texas-bluebonnet-award/ ↩

  7. Jorge Aguirre (writer) and Rafael Rosado (illustrator). Call Me Iggy. First Second Books (Macmillan), New York, 2024. ISBN 9781250204158. ↩