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Busy day for pitches in New York. Same thing in Hollywood they tell me.

11am: Who would have thought that funny creators from two pitches two weeks ago would have gotten together? But Devin Clark, Dan Meth & Jeff Somogyi put together Truckadillos.

2:30pm: Xoop Studios in New York is Kartik Mohan & Man Kim; together with Lisa Goldman & Ram Mohan (from his studio in India) they showed us Deep South.

3:55pm: Robert Teer & Damiam DeMartino redeveloped a board and came in with Gloom, Dread, & Fred.

Thank you for the hard work everyone. It was a good week.

Thanks to all the teams for kind permission to post your work.

Two old friends stopped by today in New York to pitch us some Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

John Dilworth and I worked together at Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in the mid 90s on Courage, the Cowardly Dog, and today he brought by a storyboard on Garlic Boy.

Voice actor and producer/writer Joe Bevilacqua pitched us a story of Willaby & the Professor.

Thanks to John and Joe for kind permission to post images from their storyboards.

Devin Clark came into the New York office today to show us a pitch on his cartoon Go-Wheely Rilla (with a script by Alec Coiro).

Devin animates Comedy Central stuff for our friends over at Interspectacular. And coincidentially, he’s college friends with Dan Meth who was in to see us earlier in the week. Go figure.

Thanks to Devin for his kind permission to post his artwork.

Dan Meth is an animator/artist/musician based in Brooklyn and came to my attention when my lovely wife received one of his fabulous viral films by email, which we promply sent off to all the rabbis we know.

His writing partner is Jeff Somogyi, the proprietor of Peeper Radio Theatre -The Penultimate Radio Comedy.

Together, they came in yesterday to pitch Kwurg for Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

Thanks for kind permission to post a frame from the Kwurq pitch.

On a whirlwind one day trip to Hollywood last week for a wrap party for Butch Hartman’s The Fairly Oddparents (the second successful spin-off series from Oh Yeah!), I had a chance to catch up with a new friend, and a couple of long timers.

Melissa will be filling you in on Adam Henry’s Tiffany.

Up next was the unique and talented ‘Pat’ Ventura, the first man I ever offered a short, and the person who convinced me the classic seven minute cartoon would become my format of choice. His love for Laurel & Hardy is contagious, as is his Dangerous Duck Brothers.

I started an international storyboard contest at Hanna-Barbera in the 90s. The first second prize winner was Dave Kirwan. The next year’s winner should have been his 16 year old son Alex, but, when we found out he was below our legal winning age, we hired him instead, as an apprentice on Johnny Bravo. Then he became our first creator in 1998’s Oh Yeah! Cartoons on Nickelodeon, and has since become one of the leading art directors (Frederator’s own My Life as a Teenage Robot and Call Me Bessie!) in the cartoon industry (all before he was 25 years old!). So, I guess we were forced to see Alex Kirwan’s pitch on Mike & the Kingdom of Petunia.

Thanks to Pat and Alex for their kind permission to post their artwork.

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.

One of the great things about this season’s development is opening up the field much wider in New York, where I’m currently based.

For instance, Robert Teer & Damiam DeMartino are a team who come out of playwriting, graphic design, and comics. Today they came in to pitch their cartoon Gloom & Dread.

Thanks to Robert & Damian for kind permission to post one of their pitch drawings.

No one has a greater interest in a new name for Oh Yeah! Cartoons than our indefatigable creator crew. So, they keep coming up with more and more. (Or do they just want the prize money?)

Thank you Kyle Carrozza.
You give us 7 minutes, we’ll give you a bunch of crazy stuff that can’t really happen.
Holy Crap! Cartoons!
Psychedlic Catoon Love-In
Uncle Fred’s Kartoon Klassics
Discount Cartoon Warehouse
From the Back of Lefty’s RV Cartoons
So, A Priest and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar Toons
In Space, No One Can Hear You Cartoon
Cartoons in the House
Cartoon Sandwich
Frederations
The Frederator Show
Toon Loaf
Nickelodeon Presents: The Frederator Show
Individually Wrapped Cartoons
Your Cartoons
The Toon Special
Critical Mass Cartoons
Industrial Strength Cartoons
Cartoon Factory
If You Don’t Watch Cartoons, The Terrorists Win

Thank you Jerry Beck.
Animation Lab
Cartoon-A-Rama
Oh Yeah: The Next Generation
Cartoon Pop
El Cartoon Loco!

Thank you Aliki Theofilopoulos.
C-Toons
True Cartoons
Yuk Yuk Cartoons
Free Cartoons
Ha Ha Cartoons
Oh Boy! Cartoons!
Hooray! Cartoons!

Thank you Adam Henry.
Laugh O Toons
Bunch O Toons
Smiley Face Cartoons
Love ‘em Cartoons
Our Toons, Cartoons
Cartoons Next!
Once More Cartoons
More, Cartoons!
The Short Program
Click! Cartoons!
Cartoons, Again!

Larry Huber has been a great partner on the 99 shorts we’ve made over the last 12 years for lots of reasons. His latest suggestions for Oh Yeah! Cartoons are only two. Many of you know that Korea is a major source of the great animation we often get for our TV series. Well with all the fabulous animators there, none has ever even pitched us a cartoon, and very few have pitched anywhere else. Larry is partnering with some of this great talent to bring us some cool, funny shorts.

Han Ung Lee and Larry co-created Shaking.

And Bit Boy is a flash cartoon he co-created with Jun Kyo Seo & Kong Yo Kang.

If these work, Larry has once again created innovation in the US cartoon biz.

Thanks to the gang for their kind permissions to post some of their sharp artwork.

It’s always a great day at Frederator Studios when our great friend John Kricfalusi comes by with cartoon ideas like Wally.

Many of you have heard me talk about the importance of John to our approach to making cartoons. Though we were circling around the idea of classic style shorts like Looney Tunes, it wasn’t until we moved to Hollywood and met John that we understood how we would approach them. The value of artists as the prime movers, the make-each-drawing-funny neccessity, timing, acting… the list of influential items is enormous. Of course, it’s not that Mr. Kricfalusi invented this stuff, but, I think it’s fair to say, he was most definitely the most vocal person in reviving these notions as important in the new generation entering the business in the 90s.

For those of you who’ve never had the pleasure of watching a John K pitch, my really crappy cell phone camera caught this classic Spumco moment.

Thanks John, you’ve made a great difference to all of us.

Thanks to John Kricfalusi for his kind permission to post this drawing of Wally.