Eric Trueheart & Samantha Franklin | Source | Samantha Franklin is founder of cocktail company Black Yeti Beverage at Black...

ERIC TRUEHEART is co-founder of Black Yeti Beverage, a company pioneering Grisly's Cosmic Black, a unique line of aged bourbon and gourmet cola canned cocktails.

Before that, he was an animation writer for Emmy and BAFTA-nominated shows, in addition to being a graduate of both Harvard and USC.

During the last 20 years, he’s made animated creatures talk for every major ‘toon slinger in town including Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Toon Box, Hub Network, Klasky-Csupo, Spike TV, SyFy, Discovery, YouTube, PBS, Dreamworks, Disney and Netflix.

Trueheart cut his teeth working on The Wild Thornberrys before making the leap to writing two seasons of Nickelodeon’s original cult hit, and Annie Award-winning, Invader Zim. Following which, he wrote for two seasons across 19 episodes of the BAFTA-nominated Yin Yang Yo for Disney, as well as developing and writing the Emmy-nominated series adaptation of the feature film Turbo Fast for Dreamworks and Netflix.

Trueheart’s work also includes scripts across global ratings juggernauts such as Pound Puppies, Mech-X4, Zo-Zo-Zombie, Rekkit Rabbit, SheZow as well as dozens of other series, video games and other animated projects, including work with Shrek producer John Williams, in addition to a live show for the international electronic dance music sensation Deadmau5.

Eric lives in Pasadena, CA with his punk rock wife and his kung-fu cat.

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Co-Founder of Black Yeti Beverage, Inc., Samantha Franklin (aka Sammi Hologram) is also the brains and bass-guitarist behind Teenacide Records’ Billboard garage-rock-chart-topping, all-girl punk band The Holograms. With over a decade’s worth of music industry, songwriting, marketing, and PR expertise, Sammi is acutely adept at synthesizing bombastic rock n’ roll aesthetics and fun into all areas of product development. Having segued into the integrative healthcare sector, she has developed and brought to market several successful nootropic nutraceutical product lines for physicians and she is currently attending Pepperdine University where she is working towards her masters, then subsequent doctoral degree in clinical psychology, and eventual postdoctoral degree in psychopharmacology. The future Dr. Hologram knows a thing or two about the human psyche which all translates seamlessly into the goals and architecture of Black Yeti Beverage, Inc. and the Grisly’s Cosmic brand.

Black Yeti Beverage, Inc. was imagineered during the 2020 pandemic lockdown to bring some much-needed joy and transcendent fun to our currently healing world! Our inaugural aged bourbon and gourmet cola RTD, Grisly's Cosmic Black, is set to launch this Summer 2021!

Samantha resides in sunny Pasadena, Ca with her far-out fiancé and cosmic corpulent cat.