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You all know Eric Fogel from his great hit show on MTV called Celebrity Deathmatch. A few of you might be buying his Barbie movie for your daughters. We’ve admired his work for a long time and we’re thrilled that he pitched us a short for Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

Thank you Eric, for the kind permission to post a drawing from your cartoon pitch.

As regular readers know, Frederator Studios started sending out postcards in 1998. We intended them to be an extension of the posters we started at Hanna-Barbera to accompany What A Cartoon!, our original shorts series (where we launched seven series and a movie, like Genndy Tartakovsky’s Dexter’s Laboratory, David Feiss’ Cow & Chicken, and Craig McCraken’s The Powerpuff Girls).

So we started sending out creator cards during the first three seasons of Oh Yeah! Cartoons, sprinkling a few general hype cards for the studio along the way. After a hiatus created a little withdrawal, and the opening of our New York office, we launched a more avant series with our graphic designer friends at Adams-Morioka in Beverly Hills. 2004 started a period of renewed postcard energy, and for the last year or so we’ve sent out three cards every few weeks (the three above are this week’s) to a limited of our nearest and dearest.

And maybe you. I’d like to make a special offer: after each blog posting on a postcard mailing, for the first person that sends their address to hey@frederator.com, we’ll add you to our future list. I’m not going to hype this offer anywhere but here, and not often, so make a note, and join this exclusive group.

In the meanwhile, click here to all our Frederator card series.

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Brian Russell is a recent animation graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He’s currently working with our friend Dave Levy at Cartoon Pizza as an assistant animator. He came in the other day to make a pitch for Oh Yeah! Cartoons; it’s an adventure/comedy called Jet & Skyy.

Thanks to Brian for his kind permission to post a storyboard panel from his cartoon.