Jamie-Leigh Gale

Jamie-Leigh Gale, (born July 21, 1958) is an American producer and screenwriter responsible for co-creating the shows Captain Galaxy and Johnny and the Warriors of Chronos for Toonation. He has also written for a variety of Toonation shows, including ''[Insert]. ''He is the son of Mitch Gale, the creator of Toonation and cartoon character Barry Bear. Jamie-Leigh Gale revived his father's animation company in the 80s by producing their own series with help of external companies.

Early life
Jamie-Leigh Gale was born on July 21st 1958 from Mitch Gale and Gertrude Olsen. At a young age, Jamie-Leigh wanted to become an animator like his father, but despite years of drawing classes, he wasn't able to meet the standards required to become an animator. In 1971, Mitch Gale died of lung cancer and his company Toonation, who wasn't succeeding financially, went bankrupt and closed soon after. Jamie-Leigh Gale's passion for animation lead him to a new dream: reviving his father's company, so he turned to business managing and finances for his education.

Jamie-Leigh Gale graduated in 1978 and immediately revived Toonation, hiring little personal, all new writers and animators he knew personally.

Career
Jamie-Leigh Gale's first project in Toonation was the Captain Galaxy TV series: a friend of his who worked at City Comics informed him that they were looking for a company willing to produce an animated series for their most popular super-hero, Captain Galaxy:"'[...] I graduated and the next I wanted to do was to put Toonation back in business. Most of the old employees were retired, so I had to hire new blood. [...] I was able to hire artists and writers, now all we needed was enough funds to produce our own cartoons, but since none of us really knew what we were doing, we needed a miracle: I had a friend who worked at City Comics, and one day he told me that he was looking for a company that could produce a Captain Galaxy series. We of course volunteered, and we didn't ask for a lot of money, the plan was to produce an awesome series to show everyone we were back. Thanks to Toonation's large portfolio of shorts, City Comics chose us to produce the show. What they didn't know, though, was that none of us had anything to do with those shorts. We took a bet, but it paid off very well in the end.'"After Captain Galaxy, Jamie-Leigh Gale moved to the production of Johnny and the Warriors of Chronos, what he claims to be the favorite show he worked on. After the end of Johnny and the Warriors of Chronos, Jamie-Leigh Gale still participated in shows produced by Toontopia, but only occasionally as guest writer. For the rest of his career, he mainly worked on Warriors of Chronos comics with Zaid Campbell.

In 2007, he officially retired and he stopped writing for shows and comics; on rare occasions he will appear as executive producer for certain projects, notably the Warriors of Chronos reboot and the Josie and the Witches of Chronos reboot.