Original Cartoon Posters 1995-2021 (2nd Edition)

 

ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS 1995-2021

25 YEARS OF  LIMITED EDITION POSTERS FROM THE CARTOONS OF AWARD WINNING INDEPENDENT PRODUCER FRED SEIBERT

The Frederator Films Professional Library #6

 

 A Book of  Original Cartoon Posters 1995-2021 ©2021, by Fred Seibert All rights reserved. ChalkZone, The Fairly Oddparents, Fanboy & Chum Chum,  Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Nicktoons, Oh Yeah! Cartoons, and Random! Cartoons ©2021, Viacom Intl., Inc. All rights reserved.

 Adventure Time with Finn & Jake, Cartoon Network, Network, and Chicken, Dexter's Laboratory, Dino, George and Cow Junior,  Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Powerpuff Girls, The Worm, Worm, Hard   Luck Duck, Psh and Chip, Yuckie Duck, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons,

What A Cartoon!, C artoon!, World Premiere Toons Toons, TM & ©2021, Cartoon Network. A WarnerMedia Company. Costume Quest , TM & ©2021, Amazon.com. All rights reserved.  Bravest Warriors, Bee Bee and PuppyCat, Catbug, Channel Frederator, Slug Riot , TM & ©2021, Frederator Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. Castlevania, TM & ©2021, Project 51 Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

2nd edition January 2021

 

Introduction ....................................... Maybe it was the handmade poster that some kid lettered for my very rst paying gig (as a six grade snake and reptile lecturer [!] for younger kids at my Long Island library). Or the rock posters every high schooler had to have on a late 60s bedroom wall. Somehow, I got the poster bug. 'Growing up' to become a media executive I never missed the chance to create a poster for whatever we were promoting at the time. And as the executive producer of all the cartoons in this book the chance to recreate the heyday of the theatrical animation experience grabbed me by the throat and hasn't let go.  –Fred Seibert January 2021

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What A Cartoon!/W Cartoon!/World orld Premiere Toons 1995-7 1995-7 .................................................. BF (Before Frederator), I was the last President of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, where I dropped my first big idea cartoon shorts incubator, What Cartoon!  on Cartoon It seemed to me that cartoons and,Amore importantly, theirNetwork. creators had been unjustly ignored for too long, and so I dedicated the studio to publicizing these lmmakers in every way possible. Modernizing the movie studio one sheets that accompanied classic theatrical cartoons, I asked studio creative director Bill Burnett to adapt the original art from the cartoons into the modern rock poster styles Frank Kozik introduced in the early 1990s.

The Powerpuff Girls 1995 ....................................... At 22 years old, Craig McCracken was already in the art department at 2 Stupid Dogs and on his way to art directing Dexter's Laboratory  when he showed me his student lm of "The Whoopass Girls." Some depressing focus groups didn't slow down the progress of a new name, a spiffed up design, and a genuine cultural phenomenon.

Craig McCracken: creator  #craigmccracken

Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler:

art direction & design Bill Burnett: Creative Director Offset 17" x 22"

 

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Dexter's Laboratory 1995 .......................................

Genndy Tartakovsky Tartakovsky is one of the most admired directors in cartoons and feature lms today. today. But, the Dexter's Laboratory cartoon short was his rst commercial lm and became the rst original series (and a big hit, at that) on Cartoon Network.

Genndy Tartakovsky: creator @genndytartakovsky

Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler: art direction & design Bill Burnett: Creative Director Offset 17" x 22"

 

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Yuckie Duck 1995 ....................................... I had a particular soft spot for Pat Ventura. He was not only the rst WAC! alumnus and loved classic cartoons, but he helped school me as to what made for great cartoons

We made two George and Juniors, two Yuckie Ducks and then Sledgehammer O'Possum, which really pushed the boundaries of a kids lm.

Pat Ventura: creator Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler: art direction & design Bill Burnett: Creative Director Offset 17" x 22"

 

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. . . . . . 1995 ................................. Dino

All of the new folks at WAC! were honored, and honestly,, a little intimidated, when both Joe Barbera honestly and Bill Hanna agreed to contribute shorts.

Joe Barbera: director Jesse Stagg & Wheeler: art direction & Kelly design Bill Burnett: Creative Director

Offset 17" x 22"

 

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Bravo 1995 Johnny ....................................... Animator Van Partible was barely out of school when he started Johnny Bravo at Hanna-Barbera. Working with limited resources and brand new digital technology, his short became the third WAC! series, and has been dogged with rumors of a live action feature ever since.

Van Partible: creator @vanpartible

Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler: art direction & design Bill Burnett: Creative Director Offset

17" x 22"

 

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O'Possum 1995 Sledgehammer ....................................... It's probable that my affection for Pat Ventura, his style and his fondness for "cartoon violence" allowed my judgement to go out on a limb with this one. Though it was produced earlier, programmers pushed it to the end of the WAC! run on Cartoon Network.

Pat Ventura: creator Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler: art direction & design Bill Burnett: Creative Director Offset 17" x 22"

 

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and Junior 1995 George ....................................... The earliest animator to sign up for the What A Cartoon! project was Pat Ventura. But, instead of contributing an original his rst time up (those would come later) Pat wanted a shot at updating Tex Tex Avery's George and Junior, a theatrical team from the Ted Turner (the Hanna-Barbera owner) controlled MGM library. library. Not your grandfather's Geo & Jr., that is for sure.

Pat Ventura: director Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler: art direction & design Bill Burnett: Creative Director Offset 17" x 22"

 

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Luck Duck 1995 Hard ....................................... Bill Hanna was the sharpest comedic director in all of animation, a true innovator innovator.. The rst of his two WAC! shorts,  Hard Luck Luck Duck  proved  proved it when the cartoon brought down the house at our rst industry screening for young alterna-hipsters.

Bill Hanna: creat creator or Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler: art direction & design Bill Burnett: Creative Director Offset 17" x 22"

 

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Pfish and Chip 1995 .......................................

Butch Hartman, Eugene Mattos, & Michael Rann: creators Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler: art direction & design Bill Burnett: Creative Director Offset 17" x 22"

 

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Cow and Chicken 1995 ....................................... Dave Feiss' career in animation went back to the early 80s when he presented one of the funniest storyboards in the WAC! pitch process. Cow and

Chicken went on to be the program s second series,

and the only one that spun off a sequel: I Am WeaWeasel.

David Feiss: creator  @david_feiss

Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler: art direction & design Bill Burnett: Creative Director Offset 17" x 22"

 

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. . . . .Worm . . . . . . . 1997 ........................... The

Eddie Fitzgerald's vision on cartoons in the 90s was as unique as his laugh. And I thought his attempt to bring psychoanalysis into the realm of comedy animation was worth a shot. Eddie had a tough time making his nal directorial and illustrative decisions so The Worm  haditsone of the WAC! cycles, pushing debut to longest almost the endproduction of the series.

Eddie Fitzgerald: creator Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler: art direction & design Bill Burnett: Creative Director Offset 17" x 22"

 

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& Malcolm 1997 Melvin ....................................... Buzz Potamkin was my head of production at Hanna-Barbera and the biggest supporter of the idea of What A Cartoon! Makes sense, since when we worked together on MTV animation, Buzz was the rst person to give me unofcial tutoring in the way of the commercial cartoon business. And after two years of convincing Ted Turner and Scott Sassa (Turner's President of Entertainment) that shorts were the path to Cartoon Network's greatest successes, Buzz was the one who suggested that getting the unique, irrepressible Ralph Bakshi would be a cherry on top of our project, giving all

our unknowns a kind of Hollywood credibility. credibility. After all, Ralph began his animation career at Terrytoons before turning the world upside down with Fritz the Cat  and  and Lord of of the Rings. Ralph excited me with his desire to make a jazz musician the center of his lm, jazz being the original underpinning of H&B scores during its golden period. Added Added to his star-like luster it blinded me to the fact that while his was one of our rst greenlights, his production "process" resulted in some of the last cartoons.

Ralph Bakshi: creator @ ralph_bakshi

Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler: art & designDirector Bill direction Burnett: Creative Offset 17" x 22"

 

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Show Print, Nashville Hatch ....................................... The 1996 national board meeting of the American Institute of Graphic Arts was held in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, down the street from the storied Hatch Show Print, the country music home of letterpress, woodblock printing. I fell in love with the place and its chief designer and archivist Jim Sherraden. I've had Hatch Show design and print over a dozen of my celebration posters over the years.

Goodbye Hanna-Barbera 1996 ....................................... Once Ted Turner decided to sell all his Turner Broadcasting Broadcastin g Company holdings, including HannaBarbera and Cartoon Network, it would only be a matter of time before I left. It was amazing working for a media genius like Ted Ted and I appreciated having a renegade entrepreneur as a boss. The idea of

working for a faceless corporation like Warner Warner Bros. didn't really appeal to my nature. But, after ve years of overseeing an unlikely turnaround at the legendary studio and working with hundreds of people, I found myself more emotional than I would have expected. (Maybe getting married and having a rst child during my time at the studio helped too!) I asked my newfound friends at Hatch put together a keepsake for all my co-workers. It's one of my greatest joys when I still get a note from one of them, accompanied by a snap of the poster in their home.

Fred Seibert: creator @fredseibert

Hatch Show Print: design & production @hatchshowprint

Letterpress 13" x 22.25"  

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Studios 1997 Frederator ....................................... Illustrator Arlen Arlen Schumer –a collaborator over several years– insisted on giving me a gift for the launch of Frederator, a company birth notice. He crossbred my severely bushy eyebrows, Gigantor's nose, and my fascination with the modern poster innovator Frank Kozik. Master artist Patrick Raske provided the color and a Michigan silkscreen printer was engaged. Frederator Studios, with assistant Stephanie Stephens, came to be in North Hollywood on January 6, 1997, with our rst cartoons released in 1998.

Arlen Schumer: illustration & design @arlenschumer

Patrick Raske: color  @peraske

Silkscreen 9" x 11"

 

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Yeah! Cartoons 1998 Oh ....................................... What better way to celebrate our second big idea incubator (notable for the rst appearances of Butch Hartman's The Fairly Oddpar Oddparents ents and Bill Burnett's & Larry Huber's ChalkZone) but to t 39 modern cartoon titles on a limited edition poster with old fashioned wood block typography? For Frederator's rst Hatch Show collaboration we asked for their 'classic' look, and it became the perfect rememremembrance for all of our animation creators to sign at the wrap party. And here's where Frederator introduced the slogan "Original Cartoons since 1998," the catch being it actually was 1998. We're all about original talent and their original ideas, and we wanted to have a little fun. They're cartoons, after all.

Fred Seibert: creator @fredseibert Hatch Show Print: design & production @hatchshowprint

Letterpress 15" x 24"

 

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Oh Yeah! Cartoons 1999 ....................................... Fred Seibert: creator @fredseibert

Hatch Show Print: design & production @hatchshowprint   Letterpress 15" x 24"

 

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Yeah! 2000 Oh Yeah! Cartoons 2000 ....................................... Fred Seibert: creator @fredseibert

Hatch Show Print: design & production @hatchshowprint   Letterpress 15" x 24"

 

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New . . . . . .Year's . . . . . . .Posters .......................... The last 30 years haven't been kind to commercial posters, broadcasting and the internet have made them virtually extinct. And I thought that the Herman Miller summer picnic posters series from 1970 onward, designed by Stephen Frykholm, were a gas, so I wanted in on the action. Art posters continue to be alive and well, maybe more so with the advent of direct selling on the internet. I like being part of that select group with my (sometimes) regularly released, limited edition New Year's Year's posters.

New Year's 2002 ....................................... Frederator's expansion to a New York ofce around the turn of the century seemed like a perfect moment to inaugurate the New Year's poster program. And an expanded personnel roster (for building out media on the internet) suggested the perfect execution. Patrick Raske pulled off this digital take on an old school letterpress poster, often associated with boxing, circuses, and old rock'n'roll and country music concerts.

Patrick Raske: art direction, design & production @peraske

Digital 13" x 20"

 

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The Fairly OddParents 2002 ....................................... There were no bigger pop stars in the world than 'N Sync when one of their singers, Chris Kirkpatrick, graciously agreed to guest star in FOP's "Shiny Teeth."

Butch Hartman: creator @butchhartman

George Goodchild: character chara cter design @gogoodchild

Digital 17" x 26"

 

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Year's 2003 New ....................................... From artist Jorge Gutierrez:

"This poster was my personal greeting card to the animation community. community. I met tons of artists, producers and executives because of it. It really opened a ton of doors for a young cartoonista like myself.

"And as far thefavorite actual design, it was able to showcase allasmy Mexican things: Lucha Libre, Dia de los Muertos, Mariachis, Catholic iconography,, Posada typograph and hot Mexican iconography women. It was an incredible honor to have been asked to design it. "Gracias Fred!”

Jorge R. Gutierrez:

illustration, illustr ation, design & production  @mexopolis

Silkscreen 14.5" x 22.5"

 

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My Life as a Teenage Robot 2003 ....................................... Rob Renzetti rst created his teenage robot as an Oh Yeah! Cartoons short in 1999. In 2003, MLaaTR went on to become Frederator's third spin-off series. Together with creative director Alex Kirwan, Rob put together a world class art department, including character designer Jill Friemark, whose robot icons persisted in logos, postcards, and, of course, posters.

Rob Renzetti: creator  @renzettirob

Jill Friemark: illustration & design  imdb.com/name/nm1172101

Digital 15" x 27"

 

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The Fairly OddParents 2003 ....................................... I love back-in-the-day style title cards, no matter how our network overseers feel about them. them. Luckily, Luckily, our creators feel the same way, way, like Butch Hartman did when he made this poster from the rst season of his juggernaut that is The Fairly OddPar OddParents ents.

Butch Hartman @butchhartman

Digital 11" x 14"

 

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The Fairly OddParents 2003 ....................................... After almost 80 shorts, creator Butch Hartman concocted the rst OddParents TV movie with head writer Steve Marmel. Hatch Show concocted the commemorative.

Butch Hartman @butchhartman

Hatch Show Print: design & production @hatchshowprint

Letterpress 13" x 22"

 

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ChalkZone 2003 ....................................... Bill Burnett & Larry Huber: creators Hatch Show Print:

design & production  @hatchshowprint

Letterpress 13" x 22"

 

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New . . . . . .Year's . . . . . . .2004 .......................... Animation artist and writer Eugene Mattos (known as Genoooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Genoooooooooooooooooooooooooo! to his friends) has a knack for robots. When it came time to reinterpret Arlen Schumer's original Fredbot, we knew where to turn.

Eugene Mattos: illustration

William Dunnigan: production Offset 18" x 27"

 

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Nicktoons Film Festival 2004 .......................................

I created this lm-festival-on-television for the late night audience on Nickelodeon's new 24 hour cartoon network. The INTERspectacular team gave the logo and this poster just the right touch of  the weird that the event needed to attract serious short lmmakers from around the world.

Fred Seibert: creator

Michael Uman & Luis Blanco: design Digital 12.5" x 19.5"

 

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2004 ChalkZone ....................................... Bill Burnett and Larry Huber created the ChalkZone  series (an Oh Yeah! Cartoons spin-off) in a distinctive world coupled with a singular visual palette created by art director Carlos Ramos. I wanted them to show it off with a commemorative that reected the show 'through-the-looking' through-the-looking-glass' glass' appeal.

Bill Burnett & Larry Huber: creat creators ors Frank Rocco: illustration Bill Burnett & Larry Huber: creators Will Dunnigan: production Offset 18" x 28"

 

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Yeah! 2005 Oh Yeah! Cartoons 2005 ....................................... It had been ve long years since the last recruitment of talent for my patented shorts programs that incubated the great talent and big ideas of the cartoon industry, industry, and I was concerned that animation talent talent had forgot forgot-ten the hopes and dreams our cartoons reprerepresented. (As it turned out we had no worries.) These next two posters were meant to be community reminders. And then everyone needed to be prompted all over again when the network wanted a new name:  Random! Cartoons Cartoons.

Fred Seibert: creator  @fredseibert

Digital 27" x 41"

 

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Yeah! 2005 Oh Yeah! Cartoons 2005 ....................................... Fred Seibert: creator  @fredseibert

Digital 27" x 41"

 

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My Life as a Teenage Robot 2005 ....................................... From creative director Alex Kirwan:

"For our rst movie-length special we wanted to create stylish opening titlethat sequence thatbetneat our if pulp-y,,asci- pulp-y title. I thought it would all the visuals for the titles evoked the sensationalis sensationalis-tic ballyhoo and graphics of 1950's sci- promotional material. "Then, at the end of the sequence we could pull the camera back to reveal that all the elements formed a giant movie poster. Shawn and Joseph Holt worked hard to help me complete all the individual pieces used in the animation, and the whole thing came together rather nicely. As a side effect, we ended up with an already completed poster design, which we printed up as a comiccon giveaway."

Rob Renzetti: creator  @renzettirob

Alex Kirwan, Joseph Holt, Shawnee Holt: illustration illustr ation & design  @alexkirtoon  jose  jo seph phho holt ltar art. t.co com m #shawneeholt

Digital 13.5" x 19.5"

Poster comp illustrated by  Alex Kirwan

 

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Year's 2006 New ....................................... Artist Frank Olinsky and I have been friends since

we met on a dirt hill in my new backyard in October 1955. We’ve We’ve grown up to collaborate hundreds of times, maybe most notably on the iconic MTV logo. Frank wasn't sure he could meet the three week deadline, but then characteristically characteristically,, he delivered this completed poster by email only three days later. A sculpture sculpture of styrofoam, plastic cups, straws, and cardboard, it also marks the rst time our robot was christened, in Frank's simple, unique way, way, the "Fredbot." And to complete a circle, production and printing contractor Will Will Dunnigan was the third childhood neighbor who lived right in between us back in the neighborhood.

Frank Olinsky: sculpture, art direction & design www.frankolinsky.com

William Dunnigan: production Offset 18" x 24"

 

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New . . . . . .Year's . . . . . . .2007 .......................... Channel Frederator, Frederator, the world's rst cartoon podcast, debuted in November 2005 and quickly we met thousands of new, talented animators from around the world. To celebrate, we inaugurated the Channel Frederator Awards in Hollywood, where lucky winners would

receive their very own Freddie statues. World class animation artist and designer Frank Rocco agreed to design the awesome Freddie sculpture and program cover illustration. I loved it so much that program designers Adams-Morioka adapted the image into our annual New Year's poster.

Frank Rocco: illustration AdamsMorioka: art direction & design  @seanaadams @noreenmorioka

Will Dunnigan: production Offset 18" x 24"

CFA winner CFA winner  Jessi  Je ssica ca Bo Boru ruts tski ki & Freddie

 

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Random! Cartoons 2007 .......................................

By the end of the rst two decades of the 21st century our cartoon incubators seem to have taken on a legendary life of their own, having spawned two dozen series. Random! Cartoons started life as Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Season 4, but took on its own identity, tting for a new century.  Random! spawned to monster hits, Eric Robles' Fanboy & Chum Chum Pendleton Ward's  Adventuree Time  Adventur Time and Bravest Warriors, and with them, new cartoon vocabularies, both visually and

comedically.

Fred Seibert: creator @fredseibert

Hatch Show Print: design & production  @hatchshowprint

Letterpress 13" x 22.25"

 

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Frederator 2007 Channel ....................................... Filmmaker and artist Ben Ross has a special place in Channel Frederator history, history, having submitted his lm "Lunch Time" to our second episode. After graduating from SVA in New York he interned at our distributor Next New Networks (and eventually made lms at Frederator Studios) where he illustrated this gorgeous sui generis Fredbot poster for the network's second birthday.

Ben Ross: design & illustration  @benmonstertv

Digital 27" x 24"

 

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New . . . . .Year's . . . . . .2008 ....................... 2008 was a big Frederator year, anniversary of the release of ourthe rst10th cartoons. Finally, our tongue in cheek slogan, "Original cartoons since 1998," would have some history behind the humor. Naturally, we turned to our closest design partners Naturally, of the era, Sean Adams Adams and Noreen Morioka, to help memorialize in art direction. In their careful, but never too serious, manner manner,, they oversaw every detail of the soda/beer can illustration right through to the gorgeous silkscreen production. It's been seen framed in more ofces than any of our other posters.

AdamsMorioka, Sean Adams & Noreen Morioka: art direction & design  @seanaadams @noreenmorioka

Silkscreen 24" x 36"

 

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Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! 2008 ....................................... Bob Boyle's style is a meld of his long love for Japanese vinyl toys and everything illustrated and cartooned. His Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! is no exception, if you throw in the metaphor of a Lego set. My Bolder Media partner partner,, Susan Miller Miller,, brought in her longtime collaborators, KICK Design, to prepare Bob's characters for consumer products around the world. They took the Lego xation seriously and created this wonderful poster image to showcase the show's exibility. exibility.

Bob Boyle: creator  @bobboyle

KICK Design: composition composit ion & logo design  @kickdesign_nyc

Digital 16" x 25"

 

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Frederator Awards 2008 Channel ....................................... Leslie Cabarga started as a world class professional before he was out of high school, and his illustraillustrations, logos, fonts, and books have made him a legend. We were lucky to meet him during our brief relationship with Kitchen Sink Press, and turned to him when it came time to design the 2nd Channel Frederator Awards in 2008. Next New Networks' Rachel Garcia thought the New York City location and Freddie statue screamed for a Fritz Lang MeMe tropolis theme. Leslie's morphing of the two is an all time classic.

Leslie Cabarga: art direction #lesliecabarga

Digital 18" x 25"

 

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Drinking and Drawing Events .................................................. One night, internet animator Dan Meth had an idea. He opened a

tab at a bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with a light box, a Sharpie, and hundreds of index cards. He was going to drink beer and draw until he had enough for a lm. "Drinking and Drawing" became the most experimental cartoon in his Channel Frederator hit series The Meth Minute 39. It also gave me a 'Eureka' moment. Animators need to get together more often, so why not set up an actual animation event? Starting at the 2007 Platform Animation Festival, and irregularly in cities across America, America, I sponsored –and Carrie Miller produced– a night of artists.cards 100 intrepid drawlast animation on jamming eight to fteen and handsouls off their drawingsequences to the next  jammer.. The cards are  jammer are scanned, edited, and scored and there's a cartoon! The lms dropped at Channel Frederator.

.Drinking . . . . . . . . and . . . . .Drawing . . . . . . . . .January . . . . . . . .23, . . . 2008 .....

Lee Rubenstein was Dan Meth's producer on his rst bar night and co-produced our initial New York events. For the rst public event he designed our poster giveaway too. And the Frederator D+D logo too.

Lee Rubinstein: illustration & design  @eatsleepdraw

Dan Meth: creator  www.danmeth.com

Digital 12" x 17"

 

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Drinking and Drawing April 23, 2008 ....................................... From the invation postcard: Dan Meth + Frederator Studios present DRINKING AND DRA DRAWING WING

OK New York, it s that time again. It’s a revolution: the marriage of partying and cartoon production. It’s the second New York City Drinking and Drawing animator jam session. Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at the M1-5 Bar/Cocktail 52 Walker Street. Everyone is welcome to attend the party, but only the rst 100 animators and artists will get to draw a section of the lm we’re making. If you’re an animator, an artist, or you work in the cartoon business, come on by by.. Producer: Carrie Miller Co-producer: Lee Rubenstein

Jeaux Janovsky: illustration & design  @jeauxj

Dan Meth: creator  www.danmeth.com

Digital 12" x 17"

 

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Drinking & Drawing June 24, 2009 .......................................

An Australian Australian (by way of London) expatriate in New York, Elliot Cowan quickly brings his personperson ality –drawn and verbal– everywhere. Thankfully, Thankfully, he brought it to D+D with this poster too.

Eliot Cowan: illustration & design @elliotcowan

Dan Meth: creator  www.danmeth.com

Digital

12" x 17"

Creator Dan Meth (right) and   Bobb  Bo bbyy Mi Mille llerr

Poster artist  Ellio  El liott Co Cowa wan n (l (lef eft) t) and James Sugrue  

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The Fairly OddParents 2009 ....................................... A ratings blockbuster movie in three parts, "Wishology" "Wi shology" deserved the special treatment it was given by Butch Hartman's art team for this poster poster..

Butch Hartman: creator  @butchhartman

Ernie Gilbert: illustration  @erniegilbert

Kaz Aizawa: painting  @kazualdiver

George Goodchild: art director  @gogoodchild

Digital 11" x 14"

 An internal  MTV Networks  promotion  promotio n by Nickelodeon Creative Resources  

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The Fairly OddParents 2009 ....................................... The FairlyOddParents in all its incarnations (cartoons, animated TV movies, live action TV movies) are still wowing audiences across the world. And given how quickly these two promotional posters (Foop's on the next page) disappeared at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con it's clear the fanboys and fangirls feel the same way.

Butch Hartman: creator  @butchhartman

Ernie Gilbert: illustration & design  @erniegilbert

Digital 15" x 20"

 

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The Fairly OddParents 2009 ....................................... Butch Hartman: creator @butchhartman

Ernie Gilbert: illustration & design @erniegilbert

Digital 15" x 20"

 

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Channel Frederator & Next New Networks 2009 ....................................... Frank Olinsky was commissioned by Next New Networks (Channel Frederator's distributor) to design a series of limited edition posters for adveradvertisers and friends of the company. company. The only limitalimita tion was that all the images had to be created with his hands, a slam dunk for a resourceful artist like Frank. He referred back to the Fredbot he created for our 2006 New Year's poster, and laid it out in an homage to a famous Elvis Presley singles colleccollection. But that wasn't 'hand' enough for him, so Frank took a marker and retraced all the robots. I loved the mess.

Frank Olinsky: design & illustration www.frankolinsky.com

Will Dunnigan: production Offset 14" x 22"

 

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Adventure Time 2009 .......................................

By the summer of 2009, anticipation was running high for Pendleton Ward's Adventur  Adventuree Time series, my second Random! Cartoons spin off production. The Cartoon Network staff from Atlanta gathered in California for a sneak peek, and the AT crew put on quite a show, show, including this welcome poster.

Nick Jennings: art direction wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Jennings_(artist)

Phil Rynda: layout & character design @philrynda

Tom Herpich, Natasha Allegri: character design  @tomherpich @natazilla

Catherine Simmons: color Digital 27" x 41"

 

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& Chum Chum 2009 Fanboy ....................................... An instant hit upon its debut in late 2009, Fanboy & Chum Chum was the initial series to come out of my incubator.. As my rst CG series,  Random! Cartoons incubator the preview poster --slated for the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con-- had to be killer.

Luckily,, creator Eric Robles is a killer artist. Luckily

Eric Robles: creator & designer @rrrrobles

Chad Woods: painter  www.chadwoods.blogspot.com

Nickelodeon CG: rendering Offset 11" x 17"

 

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. . . . . . . . .& . . Chum . . . . . . .Chum . . . . . . .2010 .............. Fanboy

The 2009 San Diego Comic-Con was the public coming out party for our FB& CC heroes and their rst poster.. One year later they're a bona de phenomenon and lucky Con-goers get a second chance to own a limited edition part of history history..

Eric Robles: creator & designer @rrrrobles

Eddie Trigueros: design 

#eddietrigueros

Patrick Krebs & Chad Woods: lighting and color www.chadwoods.blogspot.com # Patrick Krebs

Michael Franceschi and Jason Meier: CG poses  @michael.franceschi

Nickelodeon CG: rendering Offset 11" x 17"

 

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Fanboy & Chum Chum 2010 ....................................... The next three Fanboy posters are limited editions. And, we mean really limited. In fact, there’s there’s only one of each of these, and they're in Eric Robles’s ofce at Nick Animation Studios in Burbank, California.

Eric Robles: creator & designer @rrrrobles Chad Woods: painter www.chadwoods.blogspot.com

Nickelodeon CG: rendering Digital 27" x 40"

 

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& Chum Chum 2010 Fanboy ....................................... Eric Robles: creator & designer @rrrrobles

Chad Woods: painter www.chadwoods.blogspot.com

Nickelodeon CG: rendering Digital 27" x 40"

 

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& Chum Chum 2010 Fanboy ....................................... Eric Robles: creator & designer @rrrrobles

Chad Woods: painter www.chadwoods.blogspot.com

Nickelodeon CG: rendering Digital 27" x 40"

 Eric Robles' ofce 2010  

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Time Fan Posters Adventure ..................................................  Adventure Time  Adventure Time helped kick off the fan art movement big time when it inspired hundreds of fan art tributes ve years

before the series debutedvideo on Cartoon Network in early 2010 (the millions of internet views for the original short must have helped). One of the show's production assistants, artist Joseph Game, reached out to his companions at The Autumn Society to create faux posters.

.Adventure . . . . . . . . . . . Time . . . . . . 2010 .....................

Dave Perillo draws inspiration for his work from many of the following sources: 1950's sci- movies, Charles Schultz, Jim Flora, Ray Harryhausen, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Henson, Hanna-Barbera, The Twilight Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock and character advertising icons. Dave currently resides in the 'burbs of Philly, works as an illustrator, illustrator, believes that bowling is the sport of kings and a bag of Swedish Fish is a seafood dinner. dinner. "I thought it would be cool to do a comic book inspired cover for Adventur  Adventuree Time Time, the kind of cover you might see in a digest size sitting next to some Archie Archie comics on a rack in ve n' dime."

Pendleton Ward: creator

Dave Perillo: illustration & design  @montygog

Digital 24" x 31"

 

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Adventure Time 2010 .......................................

Raised by feral robot wolves in the backwoods of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Tom Whalen (aka Strongstuff) has a high-pitched metallic voice in his head directing him and to create all manner of things robotic, monstrous heroic. "My unhealthy addiction to retro design, my voracious appetite for compact color schemes, and my mutant ability to see the negative space all around me helped to craft this WPA-style travel poster for  Adventuree Time  Adventur Time."

Pendleton Ward: creator Tom Whalen: illustration & design @strongstuff

Digital 27" x 41"

 

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Time 2010 Adventure ....................................... "I'm a freelance animator/illustrator, residing in Victoria, BC Canada. Aside from having a passion for the arts, I enjoy spending time with my beautiful daughter Paige. After seeing

the Adventure Time animated short, I knew it would be one of my number one shows. With this illustration, I wanted to recreate some of the whimsy and fresh hilarity that the show exudes."

Pendleton Ward: creator Dan Schoening: illustration & design www.dapperdans.blogspot.com

Digital 27" x 41"

 

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. . . . . . . . . . . . Time . . . . . . 2010 ..................... Adventure

"I'm a graphic designer and I like making things. I also love Adventure Time because, well, let's face it: it's totally mathematical. Need I say more?"

Pendleton Ward: creator Brandon Schaefer www.seekandspeak.com

Digital 27" x 34"

 

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Time 2010 Adventure ....................................... Born and raised in Ecuador, South America, as Joseph Game, the creature now known as Chogrin resides in Burbank, California, working on the hit animated TV series, Adventur  Adventuree Time Time. Chogrin's illustration work is inuenced by Ub Iwerks, The Fleicher brothers, and Osamu Tezuka, Tezuka, all in which he blends to create his experiments. "Seeing the original short in 2006, inspired by Pen Ward's Ward's vision and neo-rubberhose style, I had always wanted to do a tribute for  Adventur  Adventuree Time Time. Finding out in 2009 that I would be working on the new series, I knew it was time to nally do one."

Pendleton Ward: creator Joseph Game a.k.a Chogrin: illustration & design  @chogrin

Digital 27" x 34"

 

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New . . . . .Year's . . . . . .2011 ....................... Ben Ross was a student in a class I visited and became an intern at Frederator and my streaming programming company Next New Networks. No matter what his ofcial assignment, Ben was always re-illustrating the Fredbot. And I couldn’t help using his work. Often. (As you will see.)

Ben Ross: illustration  @ benmonstertv

Dan Padavic, Vahalla Studios: production @valhalla

Screen print 18” x 24”

 

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2011 Frederator ....................................... I got my rst big career boosts because of the attention given to cable network logos for MTV and Nickelodeon I had developed with Manhattan Design and Corey MacPherson Nash. For a postcard series in 2003, Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka poked a little fun with these faux Frederator logos, then took the black & white originals and colored them for their book on, of all things, color theory. I thought it would make a nice ofce poster.

AdamsMorioka, Sean Adams & Noreen Morika: design @seanaadams @noreenmorioka

Digital 18" x 25"

 

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New . . . . .Year's . . . . . .2012 ....................... One day I started messing around with Photoshop and a mouse.

Dan Padavic, Vahalla Studios: production @valhalla

Screen Print 18” x 24”

 

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SVA February 16, 2012 .......................................

In 1972, Steven Heller was the art director at the infamous Screw Magazine(!) when he helped me out with some typesetting for the rst album I produced and released on Oblivion Records. It was a eeting encounter and while I followed his career –Steve is the world's most published author on graphic design, with almost 150 books and countcounting– there was no reason he recalled our meeting when I cold called him for something related to Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. So started an acquaintance which has heartened me for the past quarter century. And that's not all! Steve and Lita Talarico Talarico founded and are co-chairs of New York's SVA MFA program, Designer as Author + Entrepreneur. Occasionally,, they ask me to come and speak to Occasionally their group of carefully curated, supremely talented classes. This particular year it wasn't only about cartoons but about the revolution of YouTube and streaming video. I'll talk to students anywhere, anytime, rememremembering how hungry I was for any morsels of infor infor-mation that could help me get a leg up on my own inconceivable future.

Francesco Franc esco Izzo: design & illustration @frazzimono

Digital 11" x 17"

 

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Year's 2013 New ....................................... Eric Robles is the talented artist who created our production of two seasons of Fanboy & Chum Chum in 2009 for Nickelodeon. Aside

from being great he was versatile and showed it here with characteristic action, sci-aand comedy. master mix of

Eric Robles: illustration art direction & design @ rrrrobles

Offset William Dunnigan: production 15" x 20"

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