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Diane and Dana were in the New York office today to show a pitch for a second cartoon they’d love to do for Oh Yeah!. It’s called The Life of Frank.

(And have you checked out the posted piece of their animatic?!)

Thanks to D&D for kind permission to post the title page of their pitch.

Manny and Alan came back to our New York office to show us their storyboard on Bronk & Bongo.

Thanks again to Manny & Alan for their kind permission to show some of their storyboard.

Joe Strike is a journalist and author, and JP Morgan is a comic artist. Together, they created Lamb & Lion, which they were kind enough to come and pitch to Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

(Yes, Joe is the AWN contributor who interviewed yours truly in 2003.)

Thanks to Joe and JP for the kind permission to post some of their storyboard.

Bernie Petterson has been one of the stellar artists on various Frederator cartoons (among others) for longer than anyone would like to admit. Brought into the Oh Yeah! Cartoons by Dave Wasson, he became a key part of the teams on ChalkZone and My Life as a Teenage Robot. Here are two typically wonderful illustrations Bernie’s done of ChalkZone creators Bill Burnett & Larry Huber.

I’ve qvelled about Larry Huber before on this blog.

But writer/producer Bill Burnett (or Billllll, as he sometimes goes by) is probably someone new to most of you. Our long and wonderful relationship began when Bill was a writer at my advertising agency in New York in 1988. He eventually became our Creative Director, creating some groundbreaking campaigns for Nick-at-Nite, Sassy Magazine, and Nickelodeon; he even named a network called Comedy Central. The two of us bonded over our mutual belief in popular music as a supreme cultural force, and I found out that after songwriting, his next passion was for cartoons.

Against all logic, I was named president of the venerable Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1992, and, no surprise, one of my first creative hires was…Bill Burnett. Officially, he moved to Hollywood to run our marketing department, but he and I both knew that he would make his way into production. He became story editor on Dave Feiss’ legendary Cow & Chicken, and went on to create a record eight shorts for Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Including, of course, ChalkZone. And I’m happy to announce that along with co-creator Jaime Diaz, Bill will join the Oh Yeah! team again to produce Dr Froyd’s Funny Farm.

The best part of my day is finding something exciting. It’s even more fun when my colleagues are on the phone saying how thrilled they are about a project.

That happened today when Eric Homan called me today to tell me about an Oh Yeah! pitch from Doug TenNapel, the creator of Nickelodeon’s CatScratch and Earthworm Jim.

Joe Bevilacqua is the creator and producer of The Comedy-O-Rama Hour (on XM Satellite Radio and Public Radio). He created Willaby & the Professor in homage to his love of Hanna-Barbera cartoons. (Joe went on to study voice acting with Daws Butler,

and last year wrote the definitive Daws biography.)

Thanks to Joe for his kind permission to post some of his storyboard pitch to Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

So I go on vacation, but the team keeps starting cartoons! Dana Galin & Diane Kredensor have been working with the Frederators (Eric Homan, in particular) for quite a while now, first on a great picture book for pre-schoolers, and now on Call Me Bessie, and we couldn’t be more excited. They’re based in New York (like yours truly), but they’ve hauled themselves out to lovely Burbank to work with the Oh Yeah! Cartoons production team to get their hilarious cartoon out to the kids of America.

They’ve already snagged one of the most talented directors in the business, Yvette Kaplan (a creative consultant on one of the early Oh Yeah!s, David Burd’s and Amy Anderson’s Zoey’s Zoo), so Bessie’s on a roll. And, of course, Diane and Dana are the first two women to prove my point of a few weeks ago.

Welcome in guys. We’re pround you picked us to play with.