Adam Muto gaslight gatekeep girlbossed Max into making Fionna and Cake that’s awesome
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he has the charm of a wet cat
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little smokeybear crack ship
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Best of Original Cartoons:
Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake
FredFilms Postcard Series 3.7
• How a casual web comic became a MAX series.
Don't think that Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake isn't for you.
Starting as a tossed off web comic by Natasha Allegri –then a storyboard revisionist, now creator/showrunner of Netflix's Bee and PuppyCat– in the summer of 2010, Fionna and Cake starred in some massively popular episodes included in the the original Adventure Time series and then spawned merch, costumes, cosplay and comics.
Mathematical! A woman had the chance to be the hero of her favorite show.
It wasn't uncommon to find gender reversed fan fiction in aughts. But of course, Natasha did her fan fic with art that was perfectly on point. Eric Homan, AT creative executive, put it on our Tumblr and the fandom went nuts.
Soon enough, Cartoon Network would greenlight an 11-minute one-off and lo and behold, an already hit series had it's most popular episode yet. More followed over the next several seasons and if you happened to be at a comic con women who had been cosplaying other series characters all of a sudden were all over the place as Finn-now-Fionna.
KaBOOM! comics knew how popular their Adventure Time was, but they couldn't have anticipated the success of the Natasha written/drawn F&C books.
What we have here is a gen-u-ine phenomenon.
Adam Muto, the showrunner and executive producer of Fionna and Cake, has been with the original Adventure Time series longer than even creator Pendleton Ward. He was Pen's sole Los Angeles co-worker on the original short we produced for Nickelodeon in 2006, went with the show to Cartoon Network in 2009, eventually becoming the creative director. When Pen moved to a consultancy role, Adam became the stellar showrunner, bringing the characters to new and continuing intriguing places. He ran the movie mini-series starring Finn and Jake, Distant Lands, and then took on the leadership of Sam Register's Cartoon Network Studios putting together a full blown F&C series.
Today, MAX drops the first two episodes of a complete Fionna and Cake cartoon series, cementing Adventure Time's status as a bona fide franchise, the coin of the realm in our streaming world.
A web comic-to-series success!
Rhombus!
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From the postcard back:
Congratulations!
You are one of 125 people
to receive this limited edition
FredFilms postcard!
www.fredfilms.com
Adventure Time
Fionna and Cake
Created by Pendleton Ward
Original characters by Natasha Allegri
Executive Producers
Adam Muto
Sam Register, Fred Seibert
Series 3.7 [mailed out August 28, 2023]
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Pre-Order an Updated version of “Exploring the Land of Ooo”!
In 2020, I released Exploring the Land of Ooo, which took a behind-the-scenes approach to Adventure Time by detailing its complex production history. The book was (at least for me!) a smash success, and the University Press of Mississippi soon agreed to re-release it. And so, I whipped up some more content, conducted more interviews, and produced an updated version.
I’m excited to announce that this version is finally available for pre-order! Here’s the cover:
Here’s the description:
Exploring the Land of Ooo: An Unofficial Overview and Production History of Cartoon Network’s "Adventure Time" is a guide through the colorful and exuberant animated television series that initially aired from 2010 to 2018. Created by visionary artist Pendleton Ward, the series was groundbreaking and is credited by many with heralding in a new golden age of animation. Known for its distinct sense of humor, bold aesthetic choices, and memorable characters, Adventure Time has amassed a fan-following of teenagers and young adults in addition to children. Popularly and critically acclaimed, the show netted three Annie awards, eight Emmys, and a coveted Peabody.
In this thorough overview, author Paul A. Thomas explores the nuances of Adventure Time’s characters, production history, ancillary media, and vibrant fandom. Based in part on interviews with dozens of the creative individuals who made the show possible, the volume comprises a captivating mix of oral history and primary source analysis. With fresh insight, the book considers the show’s guest-directed episodes, outlines its most famous songs, and explores how its characters were created and cast. Written for fans and scholars alike, Exploring the Land of Ooo ensures that, when it comes to Adventure Time, the fun truly will never end.
And here’s what some cool people have said about it:
As thorough and comprehensive an account of Adventure Time as one could possibly hope for. I’m grateful for and flattered by all the care that Paul A. Thomas put into this work.—Tom Herpich
"Pen Ward’s Adventure Time is just the sort of bellwether series that deserves the thorough and thoughtful historical accounting Thomas has given us here. I love it (but I still freaking hate Trudy).—Eric Homan
Exploring the Land of Ooo is a wonderful book offering an extremely engaging and thorough production history of the popular show Adventure Time.—Paul Booth
Fascinating revelations from the world’s foremost scholar of Ooo.—Casey James Basichis
Pre-order a copy today through UP Mississippi’s website here: https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/E/Exploring-the-Land-of-Ooo
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Just for you 🥰❤️🫶
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Adam Muto Embraces the Fandom in 'Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake' [Exclusive Interview]
In preparation for #AdventureTime #FionnaAndCake next week, we had the chance to interview longtime veteran Adam Muto!
Check out our exclusive interview with him down below!
This interview was conducted during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist.
Adventure Time has been one of Cartoon Network’s popular cornerstone franchises during the 2010s. Its impressive fanbase widely celebrates this show for its exciting adventures, expansive lore that spans thousands…
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Sometimes I think about how this list of storyboard artists on Frederator's weird Ape Escape flash cartoon (sourced directly from the old official frederator blog) looks like a goddamn imdb vandalization
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once again thinking ab this fern concept art
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Here’s my art trade for @incessantscreech2000
I miss these guys so much.....
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Rip Stanley Kubrick you would’ve loved Adventure Time
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Tall Penguin, de Adam Muto [tumblr] [twitter]
¿la original? aquí
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I can’t stop doodling her!
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From a piece of crew fan art to a few episodes and a comics series, to... A SECOND SEASON! Coming soon!
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From the postcard back:
Congratulations!
You are one of 125 people
to receive this limited edition
FredFilms postcard!
www.fredfilms.com
Renewed!
Adventure Time
Fionna and Cake
Created by Pendleton Ward
Original characters by
Natasha Allegri
Developed by Adam Muto
Executive Producers
Adam Muto
Sam Register, Fred Seibert
Series 3.11 [mailed out January 16, 2024]
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(above- “Steelhead” Terracotta sculpture by Ako Castuera )
Spooky season may be coming to a close but there is still time to see the ghosts, and the artists behind them, in At Home with “City of Ghosts” at Dunedin Fine Art Center. Thoughtfully curated by Nathan Beard, the exhibition focuses on artwork, in a variety of mediums, by 17 of the artists who helped create the award winning Netflix series City of Ghosts.
Created by Elizabeth Ito, City of Ghosts follows a group of children as they track down and record stories about the history of Los Angeles from the ghosts who also live in the city.
Artists included in the exhibition- Mike Andrews, Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin, Ako Castuera, Alex Cline, Mercedes Dorame, Luis Grané, Chloe Hsu, Elizabeth Ito, Jasmin Lai, Bob Logan, Yulissa Maqueos, Hugo Morales, Keiko Murayama, Adam Muto, Claire Nero, Zen Sekizawa, and Pen Ward, with additional contribution from Decibel Studios LA.
This exhibition closes 12/23/23.
Below are some additional selections from the show.
Chloe Hsu– “Fish Market”, drypoint and watercolor
Jasmin Lai– “The 110 and Downtown LA”, digital print
Acrylic and ink work by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
Prismacolor and watercolor work by Alex Cline
Luis Grané– “Pool Maintenance” , acrylic on canvas
“La Mejor Herrencia” Maqueos-Gonzalez family photos and “Maqueos Music (Banda Oaxaqueña)”, 2023, video by Decibel Studios LA with Los Angeles based clarinet player Yulissa Maqueos
Pendleton Ward (left) and Elizabeth Ito (right) both created Pepper's Ghost animations for the exhibition
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