Geahk Burchill co-founded a comic book company at age 15 in Berkeley, California. After an unsuccessful beginning, with only three issues published, he discovered storytelling through marionettes at a fateful party, joining a puppet troupe in 1998. However, Geahk found information on how to build marionettes extremely difficult to come by in the mostly pre-internet era. Early marionette work was built using seven photocopied pages from a rare, 70-year-old reference book at the public library. Over the next 25 years, he would make it his mission to lower the barrier of entry to this amazing art form, by creating templates, posters, and videos, detailing the step-by-step process—of a method he largely had to invent in a vacuum. Since then, he’s tinkered endlessly with creating the ideal, beginner-friendly design, to make the puppets emotive, reliable, and move with all the life and grace a puppeteer can imbue them.