WORK EXPERIENCE
To start, for six years I worked as a puppeteer. It was a family owned business. We wrote our own stories. We entertained children and adults alike. I painted the sets. We had a lot of fun. By the time we quit to follow our separate pursuits, we were the foremost authority on puppeteering in the Denver area. My characters today tend to reflect a puppet quality. Apr 1999
I procured a job working as a call center technical support representative. I was supposed to solve everybody’s problems within two minutes. I was too caring and too verbose. Average call time: 20 minutes.		 Aug 1999 – Dec 2003
I worked as a graphic designer for a non-profit organization. My principle task was creating enticing visuals that would encourage donors to give.		 Sept 2003 – Sept 2004
Then I started working for a fashion company. It was my job to make sure I drew the seams in just the right place and the plackets had to be facing the right direction for men verses women. I drew hundreds of polo shirts. My main character wears a polo shirt.		 Nov 2004 – present
A dear friend offered me a job as a prepress manager for his print shop. This brings an added convenience for newspapers as I am an expert on printing, understanding clearly all of the trade jargon, and can submit proper, press ready, files in any format desirable.		 Peppered throughout this time
I worked as a freelance illustrator, creating three children’s books, a number of magazine illustrations, advertising illustrations, greeting cards, etc. Some of my more notable clients included Frontier Airlines, Primedia, Colorado Rural Electric, Embassy Suites, Whistle Away Crime and the city of Golden Historic Society.

 
 

Benjamin Hummel, the creator of Anything Goes, was the oldest of four youngers brothers, giving him ample material from which to draw inspiration. Many summer days were spent with his brothers and a gang of inseperable friends, which included a jokester, a tomboy, an uncontrollable giggler and a teenage philospher. These days were far too short and so, after a career as a puppeteer, freelance illustrator, graphic designer, fashion illustrator and a print manager, Hummel decided to encapsulate his memories in the endearing characters of Jake, Nick, Bobby, Puck and Abby.

Benjamin also battles with chronic illnesses which has considerably slowed him since childhood. But never one to give up on life, he lives it fully and to the best of his abilities. Where some in similar conditions have become immobilized by the diseases, Hummel fights through the pain in order to accomplish all that he feels he was placed on this earth to do. To read more on his struggles and his will to overcome, click on the press release link above.

Hummel lives at the foot of the Rocky Mountains with his artist wife.