Thom Cat

Thom Cat in “Surfing the Net”

Thom Cat in “Friends Forever”

I am proud to announce that “Thom Cat” is part of the Los Angeles Children’s International Film Festival Best of Festival being held this weekend November 13 to 15th on Kaua’i, Hawaii at the Kaua’i Pacific School!

I am also happy to announce that you can view my new “Thom Cat” e-cards on YouTube (above)! If you like them, please sign up an send them at www.birthdayalarm.com!

–Mike
www.pencilforhire.com (work site)
www.clumsylove.net (webcomic)

Dear “Thom Cat” fans,

I just wanted to share the good news that the “Thom Cat” series of E-cards for Birthdayalarm.com is now Live (the first two cards are live, there is one more that is being finished)! The cards feature the terrific voice talents of Jim and Tamra Meskimen, and the fantastic music of Andy Paley (with art and animation by yours truly)! I will be putting up a blog post soon, but wanted to share with you all first, let me know what you think!:

Surfing the Net:
http://www.birthdayalarm.com/ECard.jsp?a:22&CCId=39&CardCategoryId=39&CardId=4192

Friends Forever:
http://www.birthdayalarm.com/ECard.jsp?a:22&CCId=39&CardCategoryId=39&CardId=4193

Thanks so much for your time!

–Mike
www.pencilforhire.com
www.clumsylove.net

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I just wanted to share the good news that “Thom Cat” has been officially licensed to appear in his own series of E-cards for Birthday Alarm (www.birthdayalarm.com)! For the e-cards I have been lucky enough to assemble much of the original talent from the first short, including Jim Meskimen as the voice of Thom, Andy Paley as composer , and David Eppen for background painting! The cards should be finished in a month to two months, and I will include links to them as soon as they are live!

–Mike Gray
www.pencilforhire.com
www.clumsylove.net

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I am honored to be the October “Cartoonist in Residence” at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco this coming Saturday, October 11, from 1pm to 3pm! I am excited at the opportunity to promote “Thom Cat” and the “Infinite Goliath,” to show the cartoons at the museum, and to talk about my work with the Museum patrons! If you have never been there, I highly recommend that you go, the Museum has a fantastic permanent art collection along with terrific, special shows! Here is the press release from the Museum:

“The Cartoon Art museum hosts Mike Gray, artist and creator of Thom Cat, (which will air on Nickelodeon in December 2008 as part of the Random Cartoons cartoon series) on October 11, 2008, 1:00 to 3:00 pm, as part of its ongoing Cartoonist-in-Residence program. Museum visitors will be offered the chance to watch Mr. Gray at work, watch his cartoons, [Read more…]

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I am excited to announce that “Thom Cat” has been selected to be shown at the 2nd Annual SDSU Children’s Animation Mini-fest which will be held on November 1 at the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings, SD.  This event is free and open to the public and is followed by a hands-on animation workshop for kids!  –Mike

I am very excited and honored to announce that “Thom Cat” has been selected to be shown at the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival! The film will screen the weekend of Sept. 20-21 at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. www.molaa.org An exact screening day/time will be announced in early September on the official festival Web site at www.lachildrensfilm.org (the films listed on the site as of today are not relevant to this year’s festival).  It may also be  screened at the big video game convention E for All Expo www.eforallexpo.com at the LA Convention Center Oct. 4-5 (also in conjunction with the LA Festival), but that is not confirmed.  –Mike Gray

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I will be at the San Diego Comic-con this week promoting “Thom Cat” for the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival and pitching “Thom Cat” as a series!  My schedule so far is Saturday July 26th from noon to 1pm at the Cartoon Art Museum booth (doing sketches for donations to the museum) and Sunday July 27th 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Room 10 for the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival screening of “Thom Cat” followed by a Q&A session with all the filmmakers, and then from 2pm to 3pm also on Sunday the 27th at the NCS (National Cartoonist’s Society) booth doing free sketches and talking about “Thom Cat!”  I will also be at the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival booth on the Mezzanine at least one time from Friday to Sunday doing sketches for donations to the festival, time TBD, please stop by the booth to find out when!  [Read more…]