Scott Johnson (cartoonist)

Scott Johnson
Scott Johnson at the Nerdtacular 2014 Conference
Born	Scott Blaine Johnson (1969-07-17) July 17, 1969 (age 47) Utah
Notable work	ExtraLife Radio, Film Sack, The Morning Stream
Website	http://www.myextralife.com

Scott Blaine Johnson (born July 17, 1969) is a cartoonist, illustrator, designer and podcaster. He lives in South Jordan, Utah, with his wife and three children. In 2008, Johnson launched Frog Pants Studios, LLC, an illustration and audio production company.

Scott Johnson was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he has lived most of his life. He grew up and went to high school in a suburb called Sandy City. For a couple years during his late teens and early twenties he lived in the south, specifically Mississippi and Louisiana while on a missions trip as a part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). On his mission trip he served people dealing with flooding and those in poverty situations. Scott credits this as a huge contributor to making him a better husband and father. It was during this time in the south that he met his wife Kim.

Johnson began publishing the webcomic ExtraLife in June 2001. The subject matter concentrates on many of Johnson's interests such as computers, technology, video games, and movies. The strip is updated regularly (usually two or three times each week). In 2009, Scott launched Experience Points, a second web comic that draws inspiration from World of Warcraft and other MMORPG computer games. The strip was one of several web comics published by Crispy Gamer until its closure in January 2010, then it was moved to GameCulture where it is updated every Monday. Johnson is the creator of the popular "56 Geeks" poster, and he illustrated the cover of World of Warcraft Programming (2010).

Johnson is the creator and host of several podcasts.

Johnson's oldest podcast, ExtraLife Radio (often shortened to ELR) began in 2003 as a stand-alone downloadable MP3 file. It was a bi-monthly show that covered a wide variety of subjects, including video games, movies, comic books, and many random subjects as the hosts saw fit. It was a self-proclaimed geek show, for and by geeks.

In 2005, the delivery format was changed to a podcast. The original hosts other than Johnson were cartoonists Sergio "Obsidian" Villa-Isaza (nicknamed "O") and Brian Dunaway, and forum contributor Andrew Konietzky (who left the show in 2007). In addition to this panel the show also often featured guests and infrequent or frequent guest hosts. Mark Larson, a childhood friend of Johnson's, joined Scott in studio (whereas most other guests, as well as the three other co-hosts, used Skype to connect) every week for a period until gas prices deterred him from driving to Johnson's house for the show. Afterwards he would appear infrequently over Skype as well as frequently sending in a 3-minute Movie Reviews segment.