Bruce Timm

Bruce Walter Timm is an American character designer, animator and producer. He is also a writer and artist working in comics, and is known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise, the DC animated universe.

Timm was born on February 8, 1961 in Oklahoma, the third of four children. His father was an engineer and his mother worked for the phone company. Timms family first moved to Ohio when Timm was two years old, and then to California when Timm was approximately five or six.

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