Robin Ator is a comic artist from Portland, Oregon, with a B.A. in printmaking and a M.F.A. in painting. He has done gag cartoons for various periodicals and has contributed comics to Goodies (Jabberwocky Graphix), Splat! (Mad Dog Publishing) and The Terminator (Now Comics). In the mid-1980s, he was author of 'Kyra' comic books with Larry R. Heller, starring a muscular female heroine, printed by Elsewhere Publishing. Ator has also been active as a puppet and float designer for parade floats and as a ventriloquist figure-maker. He works as a commercial artist, character designer and animator and is a.o. the designer of the M&M's characters for Laika studios.