Mailed the week of December 3, 2007
I found this product at a Los Angles flea market. Carrie Miller had the idea for the glasses.
Frederator Postcards Series 1, 1998
Frederator Postcards Series 2, 1999
Frederator Postcards Series 3, 2000
Frederator Postcards Series 4, 2003
Frederator Postcards Series 5, 2004-2005
Frederator Postcards Series 6, 2007-2008
This postcard won’t be mailed out.
You’ve been invited to join Channel Frederator RAW, our popular cartoon social network, twice already. But, believe it or not, everyone in the worldwide animation community doesn’t read Frederatorblogs! So I thought we’d go to where they are. Hence, this promotional postcard that we’ll leave when we visit schools, festivals, and studios.
Illustration by Ben Ross
Frederator Postcards Series 1, 1998
Frederator Postcards Series 2, 1999
Frederator Postcards Series 3, 2000
Frederator Postcards Series 4, 2003
Frederator Postcards Series 5, 2004-2005
Frederator Postcards Series 6, 2007-2008
Frederator Postcards: Stragglers
Designed by Lee Rubenstein; Mailed the week of November 19, 2007
Lee Rubenstein was Frederator’s amazingly talented intern when I handed him this stock photo of a robot I found somewhere. He handed back this cool Frederatorization of it.
Then, when we were sponsoring a screening event at the 2006 Ottawa Animation Festival, I asked Eric Homan to come up with a headline for our poster and he pulled the old Lost In Space line out of outer space.
And my friend Dale Pon (”I Want My MTV!”) supplied the tag line.
A Frederator Series 6 postcard is done.
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Frederator Postcards Series 1, 1998
Frederator Postcards Series 2, 1999
Frederator Postcards Series 3, 2000
Frederator Postcards Series 4, 2003
Frederator Postcards Series 5, 2004-2005
Frederator Postcards Series 6, 2007-2008
Frederator Bluebird
Mailed out the week of November 12, 2007
Record labels have absolutely nothing to do with the business Frederator’s in, but they have a lot to do with the business I’m obsessed with personally. Because I love records. It started with my love of music, I suppose that’s obvious, but over the decades I’ve come to love recorded music and the artifacts of how I first it. Whether it’s a 45, LP (33 1/3 rpm Long Playing album), or 78, I love the thick black circles with the paper in the middle, festooned with often very simple, but cool designs.
I included a few labels in our last series of postcards, to quizzical looks from the cartoon community, but to the best reaction I’ve ever had from any of our cards (a lot of my friends are from the music business I suppose). So we’re including a few more this year.
Frederator Postcards Series 1, 1998
Frederator Postcards Series 2, 1999
Frederator Postcards Series 3, 2000
Frederator Postcards Series 4, 2003
Frederator Postcards Series 5, 2004-2005
Frederator Postcards Series 6, 2007-2008
Mailed out the week of October 29, 2007
I know you’re thinking, “Did I miss something? There’s no election day this year, right?”
Frederator Postcards Series 1, 1998
Frederator Postcards Series 2, 1999
Frederator Postcards Series 3, 2000
Frederator Postcards Series 4, 2003
Frederator Postcards Series 5, 2004-2005
Frederator Postcards Series 6, 2007-2008
Series 6.1
Mailed out the week of October 29, 2007.
I guess it’s been well over a year since we sent out postcards and we were feeling a bit of collector’s withdrawal. On Monday, Eric starting sending our current series.
For the first time we’ve numbered the cards, though of course, life being what it is and my insistence at not being as disciplined as Eric would prefer I be, they won’t be sent out in the order they’re numbered. But hey, it’s a start.
As many of you know, our first five series of cards were compiled into a book published by the Easton Press in 2005.
Frederator Postcards Series 1, 1998
Frederator Postcards Series 2, 1999
Frederator Postcards Series 3, 2000
Frederator Postcards Series 4, 2003
Frederator Postcards Series 5, 2004-2005
Frederator Postcards Series 6, 2007-2008
Of course there are lots of reasons, and sure Eric Homan’s a nice guy, got great taste, and works hard (I won’t embarrass him further by going on and on and on about how smart he is). But as often is the case with a person you’ve worked with for a long period of time, there’s got to something more. With Eric it’s his sense, which I try to share, of the world beyond our cartoon borders.
Yesterday we were going through this season’s limited edition postcards we’ll be starting to send out this fall. “I would maybe slightly alter the American flag to an Election Day card.”
Right on Eric. Thanks.
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