Who created the characters in the cartoon?
If you mean the Joes themselves, they were almost all based on characters that Larry Hama created for the toy line — at least during my tenure as story editor. I seem to recall that later on, Buzz Dixon and/or Flint Dille may have had a hand in creating a couple of characters for the show. Supporting characters and villains who appeared in individual episodes and weren’t part of the toy line were created by the writers of those episodes. What were your responsibilities as story editor? Anything and everything concerned with the script. Hiring writers, developing stories with them, providing whatever reference they needed on the characters and settings, making sure they got paid — all of that. A story editor also serves as intermediary between the writer and the producer. When a writer turns in an outline or script, the story editor reads it, makes notes on whatever changes may be needed, compares (or reconciles) his notes with those of the producer, and relays a set of combined and h
