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For almost a century, the art of the cartoon title card has not been
disparaged, disregarded, or dismissed. It has been completely ignored.
And by the 1970s it had almost completely disappeared. So, it was
no easy task to find someone who could write the introduction to
this book of Frederator Studios’ titles. Maybe on the internet there
was someone with a writer’s eye who had a few choice words to say
about decades of cool illustration and graphic design?
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Nothing.
There are several places that display beautiful vintage cartoon cards, usual-
ly for filmographic or historical purposes. But, for all the pages devoted to
critical analysis and display of another pop culture icon, the movie poster,
there wasn’t even an entire paragraph of consideration that turned up about
the kind of art we’ve got in this book.
The talent we’d lined up were champing at the bit to reintroduce --no, rein-
vent-- the very idea of cartoons, since the production industry and the net-
works had almost completely abandoned the form almost 30 years
before. Disney had long seemed embarrassed by their ‘cartoon’ roots, but even
the 1980 revival of the famous Warner studio couldn’t admit their strength
and named itself “Warner Bros. Animation.” Our team trained themselves
in a business that had turned its back on their love, but they were undeterred.
When we announced our complete dedication to the form, they lined up in
force and embraced every aspect of our program, eventually creating a tidal
wave of success that made cartoons the dominant form of animation through-
out the 1990s and 2000s.
The networks were another story. It’s fair to say that we’ve had resistance to
title cards for almost every one one of the almost 20 series that have been
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sprung from our six shorts series over the last 20 years. It's never the budget
issues, which would have been my first arguments against them, if I’d been
so inclined; it is not inexpensive to make between 50 and 150 of illustrative,
finished artwork per season. No, unfortunately, it's probably their failure of
imaginations. “Other series don’t do it.”
Fred Seibert
New York, 2011
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Contents
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What A Cartoon! 9 Fanboy & Chum Chum 121
Oh Yeah! Cartoons 13 Adventure Time 143
The Fairly OddParents 17 Bravest Warriors 169
ChalkZone 51 SuperF*ckers 177
My Life as a Teenage Robot 63 Too Cool! Cartoons 181
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! 81 Bee and PuppyCat 193
Random! Cartoons 105 Castlevania 203
The Meth Minute 39 & Nite Fite 113 GO! Cartoons 207
Ape Esacape Cartoons 117 Costume Quest 221
What A Cartoon!
Cartoon Network 1995-1998
Title cards by
Andy Suriano, Bob Boyle, Teri Shikasho,
Dan Chessher, George Goodchild, Ernie Gilbert,
Gordon Hammond, Nadia Vurbenova-Mouri,
Honore Gauthier, George Taylor, Frank Rocco,
Holly Kim, Mike Dougherty, Kristin Donner
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ChalkZone
Nickelodeon 2002-2005
Title cards by
Steve Daye, James Burks,
Paige Pooler, Don Fuller, Bob Boyle
Random! Cartoons
Nickelodeon 2008-2009
Title cards by
Anne Walker, Adam Muto, Doug TenNapel,
G. Brian Reynolds & Russ Harris, Lincoln Peirce, Niki Yang,
Polygon Pictures, Bill Plympton, Pendleton Ward, Paul Linsley
The Meth Minute
& Nite Fite
Channel Frederator 2007-2008
Title cards by
Steve Lambe, Chad Woods, Patrick Morgan,
Roman Laney, Eric Robles
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Adventure Time
Cartoon Network 2010-2018
Created by Pendleton Ward
Title card art by
Sam Alden, Natasha Allegri, Benjamin Anders, Joy Ang, Martin Ansolabehere,
Jesse Balmer, James Baxter, Lindsay & Alex Small-Butera, Michael DeForge,
Graham Falk, David Ferguson, Brandon Graham, Tom Herpich, Nick Jennings,
Derek Kirk Kim, Seo Kim, Laura Knetzger, Sloane Leong, Kirsten Lepore,
Paul Linsley, Pat McHale, Kris Mukai, Hanna K. Nyström, Emily Partridge,
Andy Ristaino, Ron Russell, Phil Rynda, Andres Salaff, Aleks Sennwald,
Jillian Tamaki, Charmaine Verhagen, Steve Wolfhard, Somvilay Xayaphone
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Bravest Warriors
Cartoon Hangover 2013-2018
Title cards by
Mike Rosenthal, Mel Roach, Natasha Allegri,
Hamish Steele, Andy Helms, Christopher Reineman,
Jesse + Justin Moynihan, Jiwook Kim
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Bee and PuppyCat
Cartoon Hangover 2013-2020
Title cards by
Elyse Castro, David & Alison Cowles, Grant Kolton,
Jonni Phillips, Brent Sievers, Kate Tsang & Jennifer Suhr,
Juris Lisous, DR Beitzel, Gabe Janisz,
Joel Veitch and David Shute, Damien Barchowsky & Jeff Drake, Rory Panagotopulos
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Costume Quest
Amazon Prime 2019
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From "Thom Cat"
Created by Mike Gray
for Random! Cartoons
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