Joe Feder

Joseph René Feder (born July 18, 1974) is a Canadian American train conductor, and former cartoonist, voice actor, animator, and writer. He is best known for Gabriel Garza and Monsieur Luke. He became a train conductor for 5 years after leaving Gabriel Garza, before quitting to work on his show, Monsieur Luke. In 2020, he retired from animation and voice acting, and in 2021, he returned to his train conducting job.

Early life
Joe Feder was born on July 18, 1974, 2 years before his brother, John Feder, to James "Jimmy" William Feder (June 5, 1941), and Amy O'Noel (January 12, 1945). He was introduced to cartoons after his father, whom at the time was active in animation.

Gabriel Garza
In 1996, Joe Feder was hired on to the Gingo show, Gabriel Garza, from showing Gingo his short films he had created for television. He was 22 at the time, and it took him a few episodes for him to figure out the characters. He was uncredited in most of his episodes; Feder stated that he didn't want to take credit in his biggest episodes. Feder retired from the show in 2001, but would come back to writing episodes in the reboot before retiring from the show again in 2020.

Monsieur Luke
Wanting to create a show for Gingo, Feder created an idea for a possible show, titled "Quincy Luke". It was revolved around a young adult, who'd go on weird adventures throughout his neighborhood with some of his friends. An animatic of the pilot was created, before being scrapped due to Feder thinking it seemed generic. 4 years later, Feder created a new project, titled "Xavier." It would have revolved around a boy, living in a barn with his 2 brothers going on adventures throughout the rural plains they live on. Feder disliked this idea, due to its similarity to Gabriel Garza, so it was scrapped. However; Feder found an idea in these two projects, so he merged the two projects and revised them. The project would turn into "Monsieur" Xavier Quincy Luke, a Canadian man that ends up in strange situations in his home country. The series was a collaboration between Feder, and his brother, John, as the two directed the series and voiced Monsieur Luke. The show ended up being partly successful, it was rerun on Teletoon and it's French equivalent. Currently, reruns are broadcast on Gingo (Canada).

Personal life
Feder married Catherine Hartman in 1998, who was an intern for Gingo at the time. They have one son, Jack Howard Feder (born June 4, 1998). Joe Feder and Hartman currently live in Ottawa, Canada.

Television
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes
 * 1996–2001
 * Gabriel Garza
 * Various characters
 * Writer, episode director. Also wrote for the reboot in 2019–2020.
 * 2006
 * Monsieur Luke
 * Monsieur Luke, various characters (voice)
 * Also series creator, executive producer, director, writer
 * Monsieur Luke, various characters (voice)
 * Also series creator, executive producer, director, writer