Faces to Watch

When he got a job interview with Disney after graduation, Chris Miller '97 (right) brought along his best friend and fellow cartoonist Phi! Lord '97. The L.A.-based duo has been professionally fused ever since. Hired by Disney, their series ideas never went anywhere—a gay superspy, for example, was deemed inappropriate for the 6-year-old set. In 2001 MTV picked up their project, Clone High, an animated series in which teenage clones of historical figures such as JFK, Joan of Arc and Abraham Lincoln all attend the same high school. Despite good reviews, the budding relationship between JFK and Cleopatra proved to be short-lived. Adolescent Ghandi was the show's undoing: After a group of Indian politicians, angry at the irreverant portrayal of their national icon, held a hunger strike outside the U.S. embassy in Delhi last spring, MTV cancelled CloneHigh after eight episodes. Miller and Lord now have a two-year contract with 20th Century Fox to develop another animated series. Stay tuned for more hilarity. Julie Sloane '99