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For the next two months we’re offering our site readers a special pre-publication offer on our first studio book: Original Cartoons: The Frederator Studios Postcards 1998-2005 (edited by Mr. Eric Homan & yours truly). There’s a $10 discount, and two free Frederator collectibles. Details can be had right here, or by clicking the button on the right.  Or, you can just check the complete book below, or download a free electronic copy of the book here.

As we’ve told you before, the book collects each and every one of the promotional postcards we’ve released over the last eight years, including each individual Oh Yeah! Cartoons card, hand drawn by the star creators who’ve been nice enough to do a short for us at Nickelodeon. And that’s not all! You also get a bonus chapter on the studio’s posters, and the posters we did at Hanna-Barbera for our first shorts show What A Cartoon!, including Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Cow&Chicken, and George&Jr., among others. And the essays are by Cartoon Brew’s (and Oh Yeah!’s) Jerry Beck, AWN’s Joe Strike, and the New York Times’ Steven Heller.The official release date is currently November 30, but hurry! and act now! This offer will not last forever!

Original Cartoons, Vol.1: The Frederator Studios Postcards 1998-2005

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.

If I’m reading our own blog archives correctly, we haven’t made a postcard entry in about six weeks. So, for those who’ve just joined us: Frederator Studios has been sending out promotional postcards since sometime in 1998. We began with the first season of Oh Yeah! Cartoons, creating individual cards for each of the original 30+ cartoons we made that year.

Each card in our current 5th series is sent to 200 lucky individuals, and the three up above are about to go in the mail this week. If you’re keeping track of such things, Oblivion Records was the independent blues and jazz record label I founded in 1971 with Honest Tom Pomposello.

Click here to see all our Frederator card series.