Channel Frederator Blog

In 2007, comix legend Kaz made an animated pilot called Zoot Rumpus for Cartoon Network, starring a junkyard dog living in a seedily tumbledown Kaz-erific setting. Part One has been posted on You Tube. (Part Two will show up soon, and I will announce when it’s viewable.)

The show is currently without a home, so why don’t you media moguls out there start fighting over it like dogs fight over a large, meaty bone?

Kaz is no newcomer to the animated life, having worked on Spongebob Squarepants and Camp Lazlo. He is also the co-writer of Derek Drymon’s Diggs Tailwagger Nicktoons pilot.

A little Zoot trivia: Kaz used to draw another character named Zoot Rumpus, a roly-poly worse-for-wear fellow who appeared in Underworld strips and also taught kids about creating cartoons in a how-to-draw strip for the Nickelodeon Magazine Comic Book.

After the jump, an earlier contribution to animation history: Kaz’s Dr.Worm design appears in a They Might Be Giants video on Nickelodeon’s KaBlam!
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