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Frederator Postcards Series 9.10, mailed May 7, 2010

The chronic bickersons Penalty and Lloyd had argued their way through a memorable short from The Meth Minute 39 and their show Nite Fite became a leading candidate for a series spin-off. The Digitas advertising agency’s John McCarus agreed, and rapidly found a major sponsor in Mars‘ Starburst Candies, a first for Frederator Studios’ internet productions and distributor Next New Networks.

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History of Frederator Studios
Nite Fite
A Meth Minute 39 series
2008
Created by Dan Meth

Series 9.10

©2010, Bellport Cartoon Company.
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Frederator Postcards Series 9.9, mailed April 30, 2010

My wife saw a cartoon of Dan Meth’s on the internet and urged me to get in touch; it was funny, so I did. Soon Dan was ensconced at Frederator/NY working on web commercials for his clients while we figured out something to do together. He started working on a segment for one of our Random! cartoons and he presented the idea of his own shorts show. After I said no ($10,000,000 for one creator?) he explained he wanted to do internet minutes, not seven minutes for television and we were a go. Even though he sat 20 feet away, I wanted to give him room to make his films so I didn’t see any finished pieces until he’d done about 10 or so. 50,000,000 views, and James Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sid Barrett, and Barry Jordan later, he clearly took great advantage of the room.
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Congratulations!

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

History of Frederator Studios
The Meth Minute 39
2007-2008
Created by Dan Meth

Series 9.9

©2010, Bellport Cartoon Company
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Frederator Postcards Series 9.8, mailed April 23, 2010

By 2005, it had been almost five years since the last round of Frederator shorts. We’d always been proud of our tradition of incubating and introducing new talent with big ideas, and certainly the results spoke for themselves. Nickelodeon’s Herb Scannell (along with Albie Hecht, Tom Freston, and Judy McGrath), our biggest network supporter felt the same way, and fast tracked what was becoming Random! Cartoons (neé Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Season 4).

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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
Random! Cartoons
2009
Created by Fred Seibert
Executive Producers: Larry Huber & Fred Seibert

Developed by Eric Homan
Supervising Producer: Kevin Kolde

Series 9.8

Postcard © 2010, Bellport Cartoon Company. Random! Cartoons ©2010, Viacom Intl. All rights reserved.
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Frederator Postcards Series 9.7, mailed April 16, 2010

We worked with Bob Boyle on two shorts at Oh Yeah! Cartoons, and when he was the art director and producer on The Fairly Oddparents. Eric Homan brought Bob in the door when we started thinking about picture books for pre-schoolers. One of them became a book last month, and the other? You’re looking at it.
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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
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
2006 - ?
Created by Bob Boyle

Executive Producers: Bob Boyle, Susan Miller Lazar, Fred Seibert
A Bolder Media/Starz Production
Bolder Media, a joint venture of Frederator Studios & Mixed Media Group

Series 9.7

Postcard ©2010, Bellport Cartoon Company. Wow!Wow!Wubbzy! ©2010, Bolder Media and Starz. All rights reserved.
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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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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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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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Frederator Postcard Series 9.4, mailed March 26, 2010

As soon as Nickelodeon production Prexy Albie Hecht heard the title ChalkZone he was in (he’s totally a high concept guy). Good thing. I’d lured co-creator Bill Burnett (whom I met through Albie in the first place) from NY to la-la land, and Larry Huber was overseeing all the lunatics in our shorts asylum. It was great when they got their series –the second spin off from Oh Yeah! Cartoons– which launched as the highest rated premiere in Nick history as of 2002.

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Congratulations!
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www.frederator.com

History of Frederator Studios
ChalkZone
An Oh Yeah! Cartoons series
2002-2004
Created by Bill Burnett & Larry Huber
Series 9.4

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

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Frederator Postcard Series 9.3, mailed March 19, 2010

Butch Hartman’s FOP got the go-ahead for series production while I was in the midst of a cross continent family move, but Butch didn’t lose a beat. He staffed up and started one of the great juggernauts in modern American cartoons.

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Congratulations!
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www.frederator.com

History of Frederator Studios
The Fairly OddParents 2001-?
An Oh Yeah! Cartoons series
Created by Butch Hartman

Series 9.3

Postcard ©2010, Bellport Cartoon Company. The Fairly Oddparents ©2010, Viacom Intl. All rights reserved.

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Frederator Postcard Series 9.2, mailed March 5, 2010

After I left Hanna-Barbera and our first big idea incubator, Nickelodeon asked us to set up shop with them.

“Only if we could start a second home for lunatics,” I said.

Lucky for us, Herb Scannell and Albie Hecht agreed, and Oh Yeah! Cartoons was hatched.
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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
Oh Yeah! Cartoons
1998-2002
Created by Fred Seibert
Executive Producers: Larry Huber & Fred Seibert

Series 9.2

Postcard ©2010, Bellport Cartoon Company. Oh Yeah! Cartoons ©2010, Viacom Intl. All rights reserved.

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