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Bobby Miller –webstar, filmmaker, and Channel Frederator manager– introduced me to his childhood bud and fellow filmmaker Nick Bertonazzi. We met at Mo’s in Burbank, California the other day and traded tales of animation in New York and Hollywood, and he gave me a little insight on The Ricky Gervais Show, where he’s been the lead animation director. Great meeting you bud.

Frederator Postcards Series 9.6, mailed April 9, 2010

The internet hadn’t really become a factor in video when I approached the Nicktoons network. They’d recently made a renewed effort to assert themselves as an alternative cartoon network, and I suggested that they couldn’t be a kids network for 24 hours a day. What about running a shorts festival in the late evening hours and get the message out to animation freaks? A film festival on TV. We produced the first three years when they decided to take it over themselves. That was OK with us because by then we had our hands full with a better alternative for short cartoon filmmakers at Channel Frederator.

From the postcard back:

Congratulations!
You are one of 200 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!
www.frederator.com

History of Frederator Studios
Nicktoons Film Festival
2005-?
Created by Fred Seibert
Programmed & produced by Eric Homan & Rita Street

Series 9.6
Postcard ©2010, Bellport Cartoon Company. Nicktoons Film Festival ©2010, Viacom Intl. All rights reserved.
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I’ve been writing about artist Nathan Sawaya for a few weeks, telling you a that we’re working on a project together. Here’s the first look. But not the last.

Original Cartoons, Volume 2: The Frederator Postcards 2006 - 2010

For you regular blog readers, Frederator Books is a hopelessly retrograde concept. You keep up with the blog, our flickr collections, and the various other ways we chronicle our doings. But, maybe it’s because lots of people I hang with are older, they like our books. So, I keep publishing them. And now, with Lulu and Amazon.com’s Createspace it’s even more efficient to keep churning ‘em out.

The latest? The follow-up to our first collection of postcards from 2005, showcasing our cards from 2006 onwards, including all 39 of the Random! Cartoons cards (with the original Fanboy and Adventure Time shorts’ cards).

I’ll let you know when it becomes available for sale in the beginning of May, but in the meantime, you can enjoy a PDF of it above or here.

Frederator Postcard Series 9.5, mailed April 2, 2010

I started working with the extraordinary director Rob Renzetti during 2 Stupid Dogs at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. He created Mina & the Count for What A Cartoon! and almost made it to series. Four more shorts (and five more Mina’s) at Oh Yeah! Cartoons, and honestly, we both thought we’d be down for the count again. Then, our Nickelodeon executive plucked out MLaaTR from the pack and brought it upstairs, and the rest is robot history.

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From the postcard back:

Congratulations!
You are one of 200 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!
www.frederator.com

History of Frederator Studios
My Life as a Teenage Robot
An Oh Yeah! Cartoons series
2003-2006
Created by Rob Renzetti

Series 9.5

Postcard ©2010, Bellport Cartoon Company. ChalkZone ©2010, Viacom Intl. All rights reserved.

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