Mike Battle
Michael Leonard Battle (born July 9, 1946 in South Gate, California) is a former American football player in the American Football League (AFL). and the National Football League (NFL). A safety, he played college football at the University of Southern California, and played professionally for the AFL's New York Jets in 1969, and for the Jets of the NFL in 1970.
He appeared in the movie C.C. and Company (1970), which starred Joe Namath, then starting quarterback of the New York Jets.
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Mike Battle (artist)
Mike Battle, (born September 16, 1978, Rochester, New York), an American digital restoration artist and animation color modelist. He is best known for his work on The Simpsons. He currently works and resides in Los Angeles, CA.
Education
He attended Rochester Institute of Technology, graduating in 2002.
Career
In 2003, Battle got his start working in animation as a post-production coordinator on the 8th Season of King of the Hill. Two years later, he was hired as a production coordinator for The Simpsons and The Simpsons Movie. At the start of the nineteenth season, he began working as animation color modelist. That same year, he animated the LEGO couch gag for "Midnight Towboy" (episode# JABF21), in which the family is built out of LEGO bricks, in a LEGO living room. It first aired on October 7, 2007.
Conservation/Restoration work
In 2008, Battle started collecting vintage postcard images of his Rochester, New York hometown. A year later, he established "FlourCityPost.com," a website featuring his digital restoration work. The website currently showcases 150 restored views of the 1,500+ images that he owns.
Sgt Mike Battle
Sgt. Mike Battle is a fictional British small press comics action hero published by Pier-C Comics who currently appears in the bi-annual anthology title Sgt Mike Battle: The Greatest American Hero!
Created by Graham Pearce in 2000, Battle first appeared in Sgt. Mike Battle: Nazi Stomper!, a 6-page comic strip that inaccurately retells World War II in 6 pages starting at D-Day and ending with Adolf Hitler's death in Berlin. Initially inspired by Hollywood's obsession with rewriting history in films like U-571, Pearce continued this theme with several sequel strips. The first five strips were collected into Sgt Mike Battle: The Greatest American Hero! #1 in August 2001. Since then he has continued to write, draw, letter and publish many more adventures of Sgt Mike Battle and recently released SMB:GAH #11 in May 2008.
Fictional publication history
Within Pier-C's world, the character of Sgt Mike Battle has appeared in his own monthly title by fictional publisher Patriot Comics since 1916. Originally he was one of several characters that featured in Patriot Comics Monthly Adventure Western Sci-Fi Crime Romance Horror Comedy Fantasy. When the United States joined World War I, the publishers decided to take advantage of current affairs and feature Mike Battle in the WWI story Sgt. Mike Battle: Boche Stomper! #16. From that point on, Battle became the star of the book and although the book's "... Stomper" suffix is constantly being changed, it has continued with its numbering to the present day.
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