Ellen Peck

Ellen Peck (born Ellen Peckingham; later Ellen Peckingham-Yamamoto; May 25, 1961) is an American animator, artist, film and television producer, retired voice actress, and former newspaper cartoonist. She is the current head of Argosy Media's animation unit, and CEO of ArgosyMTM Group, and created hit series such as The Aaron Show (1993-2006) and its reboot, The New Aaron Show (2013-present). She has triple US, UK, and Japanese citizenship.

Biography
Peck was born on May 25, 1961 in Seattle, WA, as Ellen Peckingham, to a British father and an American mother. She acquired dual US and UK citizenship when born.

When Ellen was 2 years old, her mother was killed by a burglar; when she was 5, her father married a Japanese immigrant. This caused her last name to become Peckingham-Yamamoto, and also caused her to acquire Japanese citizenship.

In 1980, when she was 19 years old, she started an indie zine, called “Katz!!”. This influenced her later work at Argosy Media; she also adopted the pseudonym “Ellen Peck” around this time.

Katz!! ended in 1983, when Ellen was noticed by Argosy Media, a local production company that was looking for an animator for Saturday Morning Cartoons. She created the character Aaron around this time. In 1985, she legally changed her name from Ellen Peckingham-Yamamoto to Ellen Peck.

Peck can speak 6 natural languages: English, Latin American Spanish, Japanese, Quebec French, Russian, and Polish: as well as the constructed languages, Toki Pona and Lojban. She learned English and Spanish in school, and Japanese from her stepfamily. She learned Quebec French in a hurry in 1996 when she found that International Family Entertainment, Argosy’s parent company at the time, was being sold to the Canadian conglomerate, Shaw Communications. She learned Russian and Polish during the late-1990s/early-2000s to communicate with more fans of her shows, as Argosy Media content is extremely popular in Slavic countries for some reason. During the 2010s, she developed an interest in conlangs, and learned Toki Pona and Lojban (since, in her own words, “Esperanto is overrated”).

Personal views
Peck is a avowed centrist who doesn’t support either major US political party.

Peck is extremely pro-transgender, and has called TERFs “another form of SJWs”. She is the creator of Centrist Action, a “centrist version of the GamerGate movement and ANTIFA”. She has called Dave Chapelle “a token black actor”, an “Uncle Tom”, and “past his prime” in response to his controversial 2021 Netflix special, and allegedly “never really liked the Harry Potter series”, also calling J.K. Rowling a “clown”. She has also accused controversial sexologist Ray Blanchard of being a pedophile.

She has supported tightly regulating police departments in response to the George Floyd incident, and wants to “make all cops wear 24/7 bodycams”, and fire officers who have a history of racial incidents. She has not voted in any US elections since at least the late-1980s, and has led movements to “Boycott the Vote”. She says she will not vote in any election until a third, centrist, major party emerges and manages to gain enough support to not only elect state governors, senators, and representatives, but flip states “yellow” (not “red” or “blue”) on the electoral map.

Peck is also against all cryptocurrency, calling Bitcoin “Monopoly money” in a 2013 interview, and is especially against the NFT (Non-Fungible Token) fad of 2021, calling its supporters “either greedy c*nts, bandwagon-jumpers, or giant scammers”, mentioning the environmental impact of most blockchain technology, and comparing it to a Ponzi scheme. A DMCA request sent by ArgosyMTM Group to several NFT sites, including OpenSea and Rarible, in 2021, over Aaron Show fan-art sold as NFTs, was rumoured to be ordered by Peck herself. Her most popular tweet, “I guess Hatsune Miku created the Internet…”, was a response to Tim Berners-Lee selling the original source code of the first WWW server as an NFT, and is a reference to a Twitter meme where the works of problematic creators are attributed to Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku.

Peck is also against the PRC (People’s Republic of China) government, and has called John Cena a “pussy” for apologizing in Mandarin for calling Taiwan a country. It was announced in 2021 that ArgosyMTM Group would cease all operations in China until they started treating Uyghur Muslims properly. She has called China “capitalists disguised as communists”, and thinks that most “tankies” such as the users of r/GenZedong are just “kids trying to be edgy, but too scared to talk about the Nazis or Soviets”.

Peck supports Palestine, and refuses to do business in Israel, but has called the BDS movement “basically doing nothing”, and that “screaming online about boycotting anything tangentially connected to Israel is a symptom of being too lazy to donate to charities or support actual Palestinian people’s GoFundMes”.

Peck is against the use of the term “Latinx”, and has compared it to a racial slur, saying that “if you want to be gender-neutral in English, just use the word Hispanic”. She accuses the word of being “linguistic imperialism” and a symptom of a “Anglocentric mentality”.

Peck is also against Scientology, and has called it a cult. She has also compared the John Birch Society and QAnon to cults. More recently, she has compared the “stans” of Minecraft YouTuber Dream to a cult, and has called Dream himself a groomer. She has requested that Twitter fix their trending topics algorithm to “prevent Dream stans from making stupid shit trend over actual news”.

Ellen Peck has a rivalry with Elon Musk, where Peck has accused Musk of being overrated, taking credit for other people’s work, and using child labour. Peck became an atheist in 2004, though she has been against fundamentalist Christianity long before then, and has called One Million Moms “whiners”. She has also called Sovereign Citizen views “nonsense”.

Peck also thinks that “GME is overhyped”, and has compared GameStop stock subreddits to a cult. She has noted GameStop’s poor business practices, and has called “GME apes” “nostalgia-blinded fuckwits”. She also criticized Netflix for releasing the controversial French film, Cuties.

Peck is a gamer, and has extreme brand loyalty to Steam and GOG.com. She is massively against Epic Games’ timed exclusive practices, and refuses to sell Argosy-licensed games on the Epic Store. She also wants to ban pit bulls (a category of dog breeds), due to most dog attacks being caused by these breeds.

She has also called anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers “whiny little bitches who are so used to complaining about ‘the new normal’ that they refuse all attempts to get back to the old normal”.

Her political views, known as Peckism, have inspired several supporters, including popular subreddits r/The_Ellen, r/enoughterfspam, and r/enoughnftspam.

Personal life
Peck married Greg Garfield in 1995, but chose to keep her maiden name. All of her children with Garfield; Valerie, Cynthia, Adam, and Lilah; bear the Peck last name: Peck has jokingly said “we named them Peck because we didn’t want Jim Davis suing our pants off”.

Trivia

 * She has trained apprentices under Argosy. Her current apprentices are Kathy Nelson and Greta Eleanor Edwards.