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fredseibertdotcom · 9 months

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“Best of Original Cartoons”

Best of Original Cartoons P... by Fred Seibert

When I left Frederator and set up FredFilms a few years ago I updated the Best of Frederator book we published. And then, I either did new editions or updates of all nine (as of now) of our promotional books. You can check them out as the ‘FredFilms Professional Library.’ Each of them is available as a downloadable PDF, or you can get hard copies at Amazon and Bookshop.

There are posters, cartoon sketches and full color artwork, jokes, some incredible graphics, and lots and lots of postcards. In the ‘Best of Original Cartoons,’ there’s some of each.

Hope you enjoy them.

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fredfilmsblog · 2 years

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Network Branding 1988-1990 The Best of Original Cartoons

TV Heaven and HA! TV Comedy Network

Fred/Alan, Inc. New York

For a quick minute in the late 1980s, Nickelodeon's ad sales group could not sell Nick-at-Nite advertising ("no one wants black and white reruns!"), so they decided they'd promote themselves as a comedy network.

So, my Fred/Alan partner Alan Goodman and I brought our original idea of TV oldies to a broken down UHF channel in St.Cloud, Minnesota, and renamed Channel 47 "TV Heaven." We got more publicity in three weeks than Nick-at-Nite got three years. Nick-at-Nite parent MTV Networks threatened to fire us from all their networks and we had to resign TV Heaven.

But not before we made some awesome station identifications with our indie animation friends.

In 1990, MTV Networks revived the idea of an all comedy network in a panic after HBO launched the Comedy Channel. Fred/Alan convinced MTVN to brand theirs as HA! The TV Comedy Network, and we went to work.

(Neither The Comedy Channel or HA! succeeded and they merged, Fred/Alan named the venture "Comedy Central" and the rest is comedy television history.)

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Creative directors: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert

Producer: Tom Pomposello Logo design: Noel Frankel ..... TV Heaven station identifications 1988

Production companies: International Rocketship, Vancouver BC; Fred Mogubgub, NY. . . . . . HA! network identifications 1990 Production companies: Lou Brooks & Jerry Lieberman, NY; Charlex, NY; International Rocketship, Vancouver BC; (Colossal) Pictures, SF; Marc Karzen, NY.

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Pages 256-259 “The Best of Original Cartoons-Produced by Fred Seibert”

#7 The FredFilms Professional Library (Amazon)

#Best of Original Cartoons #HA!#TV Heaven #1988 #1989 #1990 #Alan Goodman #tom pomposello #noel frankel #Fred/Alan #Fred Mogubgub #Marv Newland #International Rocketshi[#lou brooks #Jerry Lieberman #Charlex #Mark Karzen #The FredFilms Professional Library

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amethystsoda · 2 months

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I’m glad I thought of this series again bc I found out there’s a book that’s scans of the old sketches! Super happy to snag a copy for the animation library!

#it’s only $12 rn too!#my life as a teenage robot #rob renzetti #animation tag #jenny wakeman

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fredfilmsblog · 2 years

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VH-1: Video Hits One 1989

Best of Original Cartoons

Fred/Alan, Inc. New York

VH1 has struggled for years for an identity, and even more, for a successful programming format. Fred/Alan worked with them from their launch in 1985, through at least three or four failed iterations until Alan and I closed the company in 1992.

The one purely hand drawn, 2D animation we did forT them was in 1989. Fred/Alan creative director Bill Burnett had a fantastic idea. The target audience was baby boomers (like Bill, Fred and Alan were) and one of the baby boom media icons was the satire and humor publication MAD Magazine. Bill engaged their classic comic illustrator Don Martin to storyboard a VH1 commercial to a score that included the last chord of The Beatles' masterpiece "A Day in the Life."

Did it work? Creatively, that's a big "yes." Ratings? Not so much. And so it goes.

VH1 television commercial 1989

Executive creative directors: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert Writer/Creative director: Bill Burnett Fred/Alan Producer: Tom Pomposello Production company: The Ink Tank The Ink Tank Executive Producer: JJ Sedelmaier Director: Tony Eastman

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Pages 256 & 257 “The Best of Original Cartoons-Produced by Fred Seibert” #7 The FredFilms Professional Library (Amazon)

#Best of Original Cartoons #VH1 #1989 #Alan Goodman #Bill Burnett #jj sedelmaier #RO Blechman #branding #advertising

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fredfilmsblog · 3 years

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Introducing! The FredFilms Professional Library

There’s nothing like a book!

As you can imagine, after over a lifetime of producing cartoons I’ve amassed a pretty extensive archive of amazing art. I’ve tried to share a lot of it on social media, but you know, there’s nothing like a book. And, as a collector of books of pop culture collections* I figured that maybe I’d add to my own stacks.

Every once in a while I get the urge to organize some of the material, and because of the magic of printing-on-demand**, voilà! The FredFilms Professional Library.

Below you’ll find descriptions the first seven books in our library. Because on-demand color printing can be expensive, I’ve also included PDFs for each of them.

* My bookshelves include more record cover anthologies than you can imagine, almost as many movie poster books, pop music posters, lots of photography, T-shirt books, condom containers... I’ll stop now.

** I use Amazon’s print-on-demand paperbacks. Many of us would prefer not to use Amazon whenever possible (unlike Google’s assertion, Amazon does not claim to not be evil) –personally, if I can’t shop locally, I use my local store’s Bookshop.org site– but the truth is that it’s easiest for most people to use Amazon.

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PDF: The MLaaTR Sketchbook…

#1The MLaaTR Sketchbook: By the artists from My Life as a Teenage Robot

Edited by Rob Renzetti, Alex Kirwan & Eric Homan

Original, penciled concept artwork from My Life as a Teenage Robot, the hit show created by Rob Renzetti and art directed by Alex Kirwan.

This 2nd edition has 122 black & white pages with larger images and a new cover.

Purchase The MLaaTR Sketchbook at Amazon.

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PDF: Original Cartoon Shorts...

#2 Original Cartoon Shorts Edited by Eric Homan & Fred Seibert

Short cartoons have always been the lifeblood of animation, and for 3 decades their creators have been a vital spark for our productions. We’ve made limited edition postcards honoring them for almost as long.

158 full color postcards, including The Fairly OddParents, Bee and PuppyCat, Bravest Warriors, and Adventure Time.

Purchase Original Cartoon Shorts at Amazon.

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PDF: Original Cartoon Title Cards...

#3 Original Cartoon Title Cards Edited by Eric Homan & Fred Seibert

Please, consider the unconsidered art of the original cartoon title card.

3rd Edition. 90 new pages. 300 full color original titles from hit cartoon series, including Adventure Time, Castlevania, Bee and PuppyCat, Bravest Warriors, Wow!Wow!Wubbzy!, The Fairly OddParents, and more.

Purchase Original Cartoon Title Cards on Amazon.

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PDF: The Complete Frederator Postcards ...

#4 The Complete Frederator Postcards Edited by Fred Seibert

Every postcard ever.668 full color illustrations, with 72 never published and 5 bonus designs from the archives. Including

Bee and PuppyCat, Adventure Time, The Fairly OddParents, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Bravest Warriors, Catbug and Castlevania.

Be advised! This book is very expensive, a result of 500+ color pages with the lack of economy of scale from print-on-demand. So sorry.

You can purchase The Complete Frederator Postcards on Amazon or Bookshop.org.

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PDF: Wit and WIsdom in the Land of Ooo...

#5 Wit and Wisdom in The Land of Ooo By Pendleton Ward & the Adventure Time Crew

Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward has created a world of artists and writers who love all the boys, dogs, princesses, kings, monsters, vampires, and zombies in the Land of Ooo. And they've all got some very interesting things to say.

"The answer was so simple... I was too smart to see it!"

“I'm not jealous, I'm weird.”

“We have to stay pure!”

“You're creepin' me the math out!”

“Did she say diarrhea who?”

“I never knew being fat and lazy was so rewarding.”

“Math this.”

“A biiiiig nerd.”

258 of the original black and white storyboard sketches.

Purchase Wit and Wisdom in The Land of Ooo on Amazon.

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PDF: Original Cartoon Posters…

#6 Original Cartoon Posters 1995-2021 Edited by Pancho Nakasheff & Fred Seibert

25 years of limited edition poster releases. New Edition, 52 additional pages, 108 color illustrations!

You can purchase Original Cartoon Posters 1995-2021 at Amazon or Bookshop.org.

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PDF: Best of Original Cartoons…

#7 The Best of Original Cartoons By Fred Seibert Edited by Pancho Nakasheff

A selection of the best original cartoons produced by Fred Seibert. Adventure Time, Castlevania, Bee and PuppyCat, Bravest Warriors, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, The Fairly OddParents, and more.

584 full color illustrations, 264 pages.

You can purchase The Best of Original Cartoons on Amazon or Bookshop.org.

#FredFilms Professional Library #books #cartoons #animation #postcards #postcard #posters #poster #Frederator #title cards

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fredfilmsblog · 3 years

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"The Art of Wubbzy" by Bob Boyle and the Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! Artists Book PDF

The Art of Wubbzy

Bob Boyle first created Wubbzy as a picture book for young kids. We’d first worked together on Oh Yeah! Cartoons where he was first a storyboard revisionist, then a creator, and finally art director and producer on my first spin off series, Butch Hartman’s The Fairly OddParents. My Wubbzy production partner, Susan Miller, and Nick Jr. head Brown Johnson, loved it more than our publishing partner (who chose another project of Bob’s to release) and it was reborn as a hit TV series.

Bob’s a collector of small vinyl toys which was clear in his initial Wubbzy designs and as he and his team came up with more and more distinct drawings for the series we got the bright idea of putting together a promotional book of a few hundred.

“The Art of Wubbzy” deserved a wider audience –I knew artists around the world would be attracted like flies to honey– so I’ve reissued the original book as #8 in The FredFilms Professional Library. You can scroll through the entire book up above or pick it up through Amazon.

#Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!#Bob Boyle #books #The FredFilms Professional Library #graphic design #illustration #animation #cartoons

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