Usually a page of this kind starts with a large picture of the company helmsman. We thought it'd be better to let you know how we feel about customer service and top quality work. It's how we answer the phone and answer your questions that counts.

Artie Romero, our president, is the one who takes care that all the elements of our websites: text, graphics, and most important, creativity, come together. Artie founded our company in 1994, after two decades of marketing, graphics, motion picture and TV production experience. He is the driving force behind artie.com, a graphics and animation site that consists of more than 22,000 documents and gets up to 73 million hits a month. He currently serves as President and CEO of CityStar® Group, Inc.

Catherine Wickerd is our friendly Project Manager, helping maintain our billing system and managing your account information. Cathy handles search engine positioning for CityStar® Clients. She stays on top of changes at the search engines, and her knowledge of search engine ranking algorythms is amazing. Many CityStar® client sites have acheived top rankings through Cathy's efforts.

CityStar® presents the award-winning cartoon animation work of Don Mangan, W. Kirk Kennedy, Srinivas Bhukya, Jee Hoon Lee, Tara DeLong and Charles Allen-Eck. You can see samples of their work and other original animation for your web page, e-mail and e-cards on the ARG! Cartoon Animation Web site, a very extensive graphics and humor site. ARG! is a division of CityStar® Group, Inc.

Bruce Hopkins serves as CityStar's creative director. Bruce handles search engine optimization projects, manages interns, and works with our animation crew.

Rebekah Failla is an accomplished cartoonist currently developing 2D computer animation for CityStar® for use in wireless media (cellular phones) and TV commercials. Starting out in 1999 as an animation intern, Rebekah has risen to the forefront of CityStar®'s crew of animators. ARG! is currently working very closely with Konny Zsigo of WirelessDeveloper.com on the distribution of these cartoons.

Jeff Gingrich is a young animator in training, creating funny cartoons for the ARG! Cartoon Animation site while participating in ARG's International Internship Program.

Mark Tachna and David Briggs are CityStar's award-winning videographers. Today, streaming audio and video have become an integral part of online media, and these gentlemen shoot it in crystal-clear, HDTV format. Omar Jones and Alan Blackwell are our talented audio production gurus.

  After a year of research and preparation, CityStar® officially opened its doors in December of 1994. We are located in beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the foot of Pikes Peak, a 14,115 ft. snow-capped mountain. Our offices on the 11th floor of the Holly Sugar Building afford us spectacular views of Pikes Peak and the Rampart Range. Our animation studio is located in the industrial North end of Colorado Springs.