#Channel Frederator Network

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Behold, the king of online cartoons

Ex-Hanna-Barbera whiz Fred Seibert blazing a trail with YouTube network

A couple of times over the years, then-USA Today’s entertainment and tech reporter (and photographer) Jefferson Graham was nice enough to feature me in an article about the cartoons I was producing. First time was in the late 90s with “Oh Yeah! Cartoons,” but in 2015, with streaming video finally reaching the mainstream press (Channel Frederator actually started in 2005) and Graham’s animator son joining our network, he revisited.

Thanks to animator Michael Hilliger, who sent over his copy of the article in 2024.

By Jefferson Graham USA Today July 17, 2015

LOS ANGELES — Fred Seibert wants you to have his card.

And his phone number. He even won't mind if we print his [email protected] e-mail address right here in USA TODAY.

Seibert, 63 is the online toon king, with 400 million views monthly to his Channel Frederator network on YouTube, but he's never sure where his next hit will come from.

So he's always out there looking, at schools, industry gatherings, book signings. You name it.

Next weekend, he'll be at the Vidcon convention near Los Angeles, a gathering of folks who make their living off YouTube, which is where most folks see his online `toons.

"I have no ideas," he says. "But I recognize talent."

That's for sure. Seibert, then president of Hanna-Barbera's cartoon studios in the 1990s, is credited with discovering Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the Family Guy, fresh from college, when he hired him to work on Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

For Seibert's "What a Cartoon!" series for the Cartoon Network, Seibert hit ratings gold, signing up the creators who churned out hits like "The Powerpuff Girls," "Dexter's Laboratory" and "Johnny Bravo." Their series debuted as shorts for first for Seibert's series.

He still serves as executive producer of "The Fairly OddParents," a TV series he began producing in 1998 when it debuted on his "Oh Yeah, Cartoons," series. It's been running ever since on Nickelodeon.

Seibert's biggest audiences, however, have come from online, to the tune of some 1.9 billion views for 'toons like the Bee and PuppyCat and Bravest Warriors.

We had Seibert as a guest on our #TalkingTech podcast in June. At the time, he was averaging 300 million monthly viewers to the Channel Frederator network. Now he's already up to 400 million monthly viewers, and predicts he'll top 700 million by year's end, and 1 billion by 2016.

The reason for the massive growth is that unlike before, when animation was targeted just to young kids, either for Saturday morning TV, and kid-based cartoon TV channels, anyone of all ages can view `toons online.

Seibert's Cartoon Hangover, a Frederator section where he shows the best of his `toons, bills itself as the channel for "cartoons that are too weird, wild, and crazy for television."

“Bee and PuppyCat,” about a young woman with a hybrid dog-cat, is written by Natasha Allegri, a woman in her 20s, about a character in her 20s, and thus, obviously not targeted to the traditional animation crowd.

"No matter what your interest online — whether it be anime, or science fiction or comedy cartoons, there is a place for you," Seibert says. "TV has a tough time supporting the sub-genres. Online is all about sub-genre."

Channel Frederator is what's known as a multi-channel network. Cartoons run on YouTube, but his network promotes them, sells ads and distributes the proceeds to some 2,000 of his video makers.

Through Frederator, the channel makers learn about which color to make their thumbnails to find larger YouTube audiences (he recommends yellow) and which keywords to use in the descriptions ("funny" always works, he says.)

"We give them the tools to grow their performance," he says.

Dominic Panganiban, a 24-year-old animator from Toronto, joined the Frederator network in November, and has seen his subscriber base grow ten times since.

He had been working with Full Screen, another multi-channel network that works with YouTube creators to help them monetize their videos and attract larger audiences.

"Frederator was a better fit, because they cater more towards animation channels," Panganiban says. Because Frederator attracts folks who enjoy cartoons, "I have more potential here."

By being part of the Frederator network, Australian animator Sam Green says he's learned about how to better promote his cartoons, and gotten access to a database of free music and sound effects to use in his cartoons.

He too has seen a spike in traffic.

Being with Seibert "helped me move from my mother's garage to affording my own apartment in the big city," he says.

How did the traffic for both creators go up so dramatically?

Seibert promoted the cartoons to his audience. With 2,000 cartoon makers, that's a lot to choose from. He says he'll plug as many of them as "show an interest" to growing their audience. He looks for people who post new work regularly, stay in touch, and ask "what we can do to help them more."

And despite the massive online audience, Seibert isn't making money yet, and doesn't think he will for another three years. 

"Our cartoons are 3-4 minutes long, and the average American watches 6 hours of TV a day," he says. "We have a long way to go to even that out."

Photography by Jefferson Graham, July 2015

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Have a happy Halloween with Claire and Edgar from The Summoning

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Round 1 Bracket 2 Side A

Bee (Bee and Puppycat) VS Fionna (Fionna and Cake)

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[kenny-grass]

hello kenny!! my name is kenny, and i am you. i just wanted to know a little more about you, why do you do art? what does art mean to you? why are you so sexy? these are just a few of my many, many, MANY questions for you, but i'll keep it at that for now. toodaloo!!

thank you so much for asking kenny!!! that is a very strong and intelligent series of questions that i would be more than happy to answer.

why do you do art?

i could obviously answer this in the most amount of words possible, but i will try my best to keep it concise. as long as i can remember i have had the burning desire to be a great artist (said every artist ever), mostly in the world of cartoons and 2D animation. it wasn't something that came as naturally to me like it did with many of my friends, but i have never ever lost the determination to improve my skills. i've been though a lot with my relationship with my art as a reflection of my own self esteem, so to finally be in a place where i not only enjoy doing it on a daily basis but also have the desire to share it is really a comforting feeling and definitely reflects the growth i've had over the past few years. sorry for the run-on sentence, i'm not gonna edit it. tldr; because i love it

2. what does art mean to you?

art to me is anything that strikes your heart with inspiration, desire, rage, dread, or any emotion that is too nuanced to describe with words. i find this in everything, from the works of great artists throughout history to the amazing world of gumball. it's the ultimate lens into a world that can't exist in this dimension, and it excites me every time i think about how wonderful the fictional world is. it really brings to life the phrase "you can do anything if you put your mind to it." i know i certainly can, and so can you.

3. why are you so sexy?

this is the trickiest question to answer, as i did little to achieve this beautiful face on purpose. however, i can say without a doubt my sexiness went up by like 10000% once i realized just how hot i was in my eyes. also because of all the candy i eat i think it made my bones stronger and my hair longer and my face like handsome squidward. so yeah if you're trying to be as sexy as me you can either love yourself and believe in your heart you are the sexiest one alive no matter what or you can just eat like soooo much candy. your pick.

thanks for asking anonymous source named kenny who is also me!! hope this answers your questions <3

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[demilypyro]

Fun fact abt bubbline in 2013 - at the time, Frederator had a YouTube channel where they were posting episode recaps and speculation after every new episode. When the You're Just My Problem episode came out, the recap video was full of "ooohhh, isn't Marceline and Bubblegum's relationship so spicy?? What could it all mean??" Think fujoshis of the era posting clips of shounen boys and being coy about thinking they were fucking. Except of course this was posted on the network's official social media.

The video was such a problem that they took it down after like 24 hours and it killed the whole series and the channel itself for a while.

So it's not so much that early Bubbline flew under the radar: it was all but acknowledged by the network. That acknowledgement was just censored and got people in trouble, and that was the era where it was in vogue to pretend queer relationships were more taboo & naughty then straight ones.

Thank goodness we got past 2013 tho lol

See I've heard that story but that just makes it even more insane to me. They put the incredibly obvious subtext of a queer relationship in, and that was fine, but then having people acknowledge it was a step too far? Why even put it in then??

The 2010s were a different time, man.

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Atomo Network the animation showcase network between Channel Frederator & Mexican studio Ánima Estudios has revealed the potential synopsis of BIG CITY GREENS THE MOVIE 🏙️🌽🚜🍿📽️🚀🪐🌕

Big City Greens The Movie premieres this summer only on Disney Channel and Disney+ ☀️⛱️🌊

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BTS w/B&PC Part 2

 Click here for Behind the Scenes with Bee and PuppyCat Part 1

Now that Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space is scheduled to drop on Netflix,  September 6, 2022, I thought I would share some of my recollections as to how this special series of Natasha Allegri’s came to be. –Fred Seibert

Natasha Allegri is an amazing artist, as we saw in her work for “Adventure Time,” but when we got a look at the “Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake” comics that she had written and drawn we realized that her years of doing web comics had matured her into a fantastic storyteller as well. So, we were almost as disappointed in turning down her “Bee and PuppyCat” short as she. 

Natasha is a  walker, and after she pitched her cartoon to Frederator’s Eric Homan she started the four mile trek back to her Burbank apartment. Little did she know that Eric, always open to more feedback from co-workers, had emailed Carrie Miller in our New York office to get her take on the board. Both of my colleagues had heard me say tongue-in-cheek “the internet loves cats. If there’s a cat in the pitch, say ‘yes!’ without even looking at it.”

Carrie took one look, called Eric immediately. “We have to do this cartoon!” Eric heard her loud and clear, and before Natasha got home he’d already left a message on her machine. “We’ve made a terrible mistake. Of course, we’ll make ‘Bee and PuppyCat!’”

Production can always be a slog, and especially when our creators haven’t worked in animation or film before. Almost always over the 250 shorts that I’ve produced, the creators have often only made a few films at school, worked on particular sections of commercial films (character designing, storyboards, etcetera) but not running productions, or increasingly in the past few years, never worked directly on any films. Natasha had done thousands of drawings, hundreds of comics, been a revisionist on Adventure Time, but had rarely worked in film. 

Luckily, her time on Pen’s show and Kevin Kolde and Eric Homan to put together a fantastic team, including superstar director Larry Leichliter, who we’d worked with for years and was the supervising director on AT.

The only hiccup I can remember resulted in us doing something brand new. Usually, our first time creators pitches were way longer than the 5-7 minute shorts we were making (Craig McCracken’s The Powerpuff Girls’ “Meat Fuzzy Lumkins” was initially a 20 minute board), and our SOP was to not greenlight a production until the board was producible at the right length. In the case of PuppyCat, we liked Natasha’s stories so much we agreed to make it a two-parter, a first for my shorts.

We released the two shorts in the summer of 2013 and the results were almost instantaneous! Immediately the audience at Cartoon Hangover shot up, and what had been a channel with 70% men went to 50/50 men and women. (My wife, who rarely commented on my productions, within a minute into the first short said, “This cartoon is the best one you’ve done since 'he Powerpuff Girls!’”)

But, now what?! We had a success, but... would any network or streamer want the show?

More BTS w/B&PC in Part 3. Part 1 here.

Here are the limited edition promotional postcards for the first two “Bee and PuppyCat” shorts.

#Bee and PuppyCat #Behind the Scenes #BTS w/B&PC #Netflix #Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space

[ptbf2002]

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[onenettvchannel]

BREAKING NEWS: Bee and Puppycat has now greenlighted to Netflix after turning them over from the YouTube Originals and VRV [#RadyoBanderaEXCLUSIVE]

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA -- A former streaming service platform of YouTube Originals and VRV (which is now merged over to Crunchyroll in March 2021, alongside with Funimation) as Frederator Studios has officially announced that it is now greenlighted last Tuesday morning (August 9th, 2022 - Eastern local time).

WOW! Unlimited Media and Polygon was first reported that, Bee and Puppycat was picked up by a global streaming platform known as Netflix per ongoing pandemic of Coronavirus Disease-19 (CoViD-19) worldwide. Some sources told exclusively to Radyo Bandera, the YouTube Originals and VRV will no longer releasing its newest episodes for now after it was privately leaked online from Vimeo in early mid-year of 2020.

There is nothing new in this series as of this writing but, Oriental Light and Magic Inc. (OLM) and Netflix Animation Studio (NAS) finishes all the episodes in advance before the said streaming platform after nearly 10 years of its internet televised debut with a complicated licensing issues from the start. The news team of Radyo Bandera confirms that a televised cartoon show will be rebooted and improved animation for both Season 1 and 2 that affects between the regular pilot and Lazy in Space.

Official synopsis from Netflix: "On a charming magical island, the impulsive Bee and her furry pal (Puppycat) get up to all sorts of adventures while working for an intergalactic temp agency".

The series was originally conceived as a streaming televised web series and was released on YouTube in mid-July 2013 and followed by VRV in November 2016. Show creator in Citrus County of Inverness, Florida, United States of America (U.S.A.) named Natasha Allegri, who was a former storyboard artist and revisionist of Cartoon Network per genderswap versions of Adventure Time before she was debuted an official spin-off to HBO Max of "Fionna and Cake" in mid-August 2021. Allegri was acquired to Frederator Studios since the start of its own cartoon show after it was originated and funded by Kickstarter in mid-November 2013.

During the 2nd Season FINALE of Bee and Puppycat titled "I Won't Leave You Alone", there is an easter egg with a distorted color logo of Alto Broadcasting System-Chronicle Broadcasting Network (ABS-CBN, which is now Kapamilya Channel) under DWWX-TV 2 in Quezon City, Manila. We don't have any possible confirmation from the ABS-CBN Entertainment to its similarity, in connection with the said cartoon show.

Streaming fans are excited to see a newly-rebooted and improved cartoon show from the actual YouTube Originals and VRV. This may subject for a runtime change from Season 1 alone into a half-hour friendly episodes. Sci-fi fantasy-animated web series makes a comeback for generations if Season 3 will soon happen with another funding for public broadcasting online in pay-per-streaming format.

Bee and Puppycat is slated to premiere exclusively in all seasons at once starting September 6th, 2022 at MIDNIGHT PDT / 3am EDT / 3pm in Manila / 2am CDT, only on Netflix.

PHOTO COURTESY: Fred Seibert via Twitter BACKGROUND PROVIDED BY: Tegna

SOURCE: *https://twitter.com/bapuppycatpics/status/1556976653317857280 *https://twitter.com/fredseibert/status/1562277899297628160 *https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/bee-and-puppycat-netflix-release-date-and-trailer/ [Referenced News Article #1 from We Got This Covered! News] *https://netflixlife.com/2022/08/12/bee-and-puppycat-release-date-cast-synopsis-trailer/ [Referenced News Article #2 from Netflix Life] *https://twinfinite.net/2022/08/bee-and-puppycat-trailer-shows-off-life-in-the-space-temp-agency/ [Referenced News Article #3 from Twinfinite] *https://www.thegamer.com/bee-and-puppycat-netflix-lost-in-space-reboot/ [Referenced News Article #4 from The Gamer] *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow_Unlimited_Media *https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/10/6/21504068/bee-and-puppycat-season-2-netflix-release [Referenced News Article #5 from Polygon] *https://frederatorstudios.com/about-frederator-studios/ *https://beeandpuppycat.fandom.com/wiki/VRV *https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2022/03/01/funimation-content-moving-to-crunchyroll-for-worlds-largest-anime-library [Referenced News Article #6f from Crunchyroll News] *https://www.netflix.com/title/81245457 *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Time:_Fionna_and_Cake and *https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frederator/bee-and-puppycat-the-series/posts/662515

-- OneNETnews Team

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This 1994 article in Broadcasting+Cable, a trade magazine, is the only one I can think of that covers the entire sweep of my media career. That is, up through the first phase of producing cartoons. But, the writer (unidentified, sorry) touches on my independent record production era, the promotion and branding work at MTV, the branding company Alan Goodman and I started to work with  Nickelodeon and MTV, and then, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. It’s before the internet age, of course, so no MTV Networks Online, Next New Networks or Frederator Networks.

Thanks go to Hanna-Barbera’s head of public relations, Richard Lewis, who thought Fifth Estate could be suckered into profiling a polymath.

Broadcasting + Cable Magazine June 27, 1994

Fifth Estater: Fred Seibert

Fred Seibert's rise from cutting jazz albums on the cheap to the presidency of children's television powerhouse Hanna-Barbera Inc. is evi­dence that guts and a willingness to challenge assumptions can pay off. 

But Seibert faces a challenge large enough for even his high standards: returning once-dominant cartoon fac­tory Hanna-Barbera to its former glory under new owner Turner Broadcasting Systems. 

A musical background (piano, flute and accordion) and the lure of free records led Seibert, a student at Columbia University to join the campus radio station, WKCR-FM, in 1969. Seibert spent the next four years as disk jockey, writer, producer and work­ing "nearly every other job" at the sta­tion. Then Seibert set up his own jazz and blues label, Oblivion Records, out of the station's back office. 

Finding the label more interesting than his history and chemistry studies, he left Columbia before graduating and devoted his energies to producing records. 

However, Seibert acts such as Mis­sissippi Fred McDowell, Cecil Taylor and Hank Jones (who was nominated for a Grammy for one Seibert-pro­duced album) never hit a chord with the masses. Seibert served as a tour and sound manager with a jazz orchestra to support himself. 

Fortunately for an impoverished Seibert, a guardian angel intervened. Dale Pon, vice president of creative services, Storer Radio group, was pleased with Seibert's work as a free­lance radio engineer and persuaded him to join the company in 1978 as a promotion assistant, first in Los Ange­les and then back in New York. 

Two years later, in 1980, Pon recom­mended Seibert for the position of pro­motion manager with the nascent Movie Channel premium cable service, then owned by American Express and Warner Communications.

A year later, when The Movie Chan­nel launched a novel music cable chan­nel called MTV, Seibert found himself in the catbird seat as the only Movie Channel executive with a music back­ground. 

Once appointed to head MTV's on-­air promotion effort, Seibert quickly realized the revolutionary potential of the channel and led a group that rewrote the rules of television promotion. Rather than promoting individual shows, Seibert and his team worked to establish the identity of the channel with such devices as the no-famous rotating “M” logo.

"Fred had taste,'' says his former boss, Bob Pittman, who was vice president of programming at The Movie Channel and now chairman of Time Warner’s Six Flags Magic Mountain theme park division. “He was on the cut-ting edge of where things were before we got there. He went against conventional wisdom… That was important because we had no money: originality was all we had.” 

President, Hanna-Barbera, Inc., Los Angeles; born September 15, 1951, New York; attended Columbia University, New York; producer/disc jockey/writer, WKCR-FM, New York 1969-73; self-employed record producer and tour manager, 1973-78; advertising and promotion assistant, later manager, Storer Radio, Los Angeles, New York, 1978-80; promotion manager, The Movie Channel, New York, 1980; vice president, promotion and production, Movie Channel and MTV, 1981-83; co-owner, Fred/Alan, Inc., New York, 1983-92; current position since February 1992. 

Then, in 1983, as vice president of creative services for Warner-Amex, now MTV Networks– Seibert abruptly quit after finding his job increasingly support oriented and less entrepreneurial. He also was disappointed that he had not been rewarded for his role in launching the rapidly expanding music channel.

Seibert and MTV creative director Alan Goodman –now Seibert’s brother-in-law– formed Fred/Alan, a programming and marketing consulting firm for radio, television and cable.

After MTV's wrath at the pair's departure subsided, Seibert and Good­man designed a promotional campaign that helped fledgling children's net­work Nickelodeon, owned by MTV, move from dead last among cable net­works to first place in six months, again by stressing network identity over individual programs. The pair also helped create and promote the Nick at Nite sitcom block.

Finding that the success of the agency was forcing them into more mundane activities, the partners decid­ed to dissolve the business in February 1992. A day after leaving, Turner Entertainment President Scott Sassa called and offered Seibert the presidency of Turner's recently acquired Hanna-Barbera studio.

Now, Seibert is stoking the creative engines at the company. The studio is implementing a six-year plan to promote a different group of its classic characters each year, beginning with The Flintstones this year.

Next year it will be '60s series The Adventures of Jonny Quest. Efforts include producing a live-action feature film based on the series, a two-hour animated movie for Turner Network Television and a new animated Jonny Quest show for syndication in fall 1996. The division also will begin regular production of animated feature films. 

The company also has stepped up production of syndicated projects by launching weekly this season, 2 Stupid Dogs and SWAT Kats, both distributed by Turner Program Services.

The company in October began producing 48 shorts for Turner's Cartoon Network, designed to entice top cartoon producers to experiment with radical new cartoon concepts in flexible seven-minute segments. "If you attract the top talent, you will get the hits and the money will follow," Seibert says. -DT

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[princess-josie-riki]

Year of the Alice Day 274

This is my first (and hopefully only) one-year project (which will be only 365 days) and this one is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-themed.

In this pic, Molly McGee, Scratch and the Cheshire Cat celebrate Cartoon Network's 30th anniversary with Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup, Finn, Jake, Mordecai, Rigby, Grizz, Panda and Ice Bear with a little Chibiverse flair.

(Note #1: This is also for the 1st anniversary of The Ghost and Molly McGee.) (Note #2: I wanted to add any Mixel, Secret Squirrel, Unikitty, Flapjack, Bloo, Mao-Mao or any Cartoon Network character, but I got too lazy to do it. Sorry.)

Made with Microsoft Paint.

Enjoy! ♠️♥️♣️♦️

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (c) Lewis Carroll

The Ghost and Molly McGee (c) Bill Motz, Bob Roth and Disney Television Animation

1951 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (c) Disney

The Powerpuff Girls (c) Craig McCracken, Lauren Faust, Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network Studios

Adventure Time (c) Pendleton Ward, Frederator Studios and Cartoon Network Studios

Regular Show (c) J. G. Quintel and Cartoon Network Studios

We Bare Bears and We Baby Bears (c) Daniel Chong and Cartoon Network Studios

Tiny Chibi Tales/Chibiverse (c) Gino Guzzardo, Disney Television Animation and Disney Channel

Idea and artwork (c) me

#2022 project #alice's adventures in wonderland #alice in wonderland #tiny chibi tales #chibiverse #the ghost and molly mcgee #molly mcgee #scratch #cheshire cat #the powerpuff girls #blossom #bubbles #buttercup #adventure time #finn and jake #finn the human #jake the dog #regular show #mordecai and rigby #mordecai #rigby #we bare bears #we baby bears #grizz #panda #ice bear #cartoon network #chibi #crossover #celebration

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Just finished watching #BeeandPuppyCatLazyinSpace! Seriously, there NEED to be more remakes! #CartoonHangover may still suck on some levels, but if they continue this, maybe this YouTube channel will come back as a TV network! Don't know what I mean by Cartoon Hangover as a TV network? Trust me, if this TV network definitely has all of the cartoons from Cartoon Hangover (along with the exception of Fin Punch), you remember the same shows they used to have on that YouTube channel. This remake of #BeeandPuppyCat was just so perfect. If only Cartoon Hangover could just do more and more remakes, like #BravestWarriors and #SuperFuckers (though if Super Fuckers was solely remade, it would be called “#SuperFuckersForever” based on the comic book with the same name). Because if that happens, then @CartoonHangover has a chance to redeem itself. Also, happy early birthday, @FredSeibert 💖✨ #frederatorstudios #frederator #adventuretime #adventuretimefandom #adventuretimefanart #bravestwarriorsfanart #pendletonward #penward #buenothebear #jameskochalka #kochalka #natashaallegri #fredseibert #deadend #deadendparanormalpark #deadendfanart #deadendia #deadendianetflix #deadendiafanart #kidcore #teencore #y2k #y2kcore (at Frederator Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiL-sMgtmh4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#beeandpuppycatlazyinspace #cartoonhangover #beeandpuppycat #bravestwarriors #superfuckers #superfuckersforever #frederatorstudios #frederator #adventuretime #adventuretimefandom #adventuretimefanart #bravestwarriorsfanart #pendletonward #penward #buenothebear #jameskochalka #kochalka #natashaallegri #fredseibert #deadend #deadendparanormalpark #deadendfanart #deadendia #deadendianetflix #deadendiafanart #kidcore #teencore #y2k #y2kcore

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Kartoon Studios Launches “Stan Lee Presents” On YouTube

Paying tribute to the legacy of the “godfather of comics” and the chief architect of the Marvel Universe, Kartoon Studios, the controlling partner of “Stan Lee Universe, LLC,” announced today the launch of the “Stan Lee Presents” channel on YouTube, with over 300,000 subscribers. The newly branded channel, formerly “Cinematica,” will be managed by Kartoon Studios’ subsidiary Frederator Networks,…

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#Comic Books #Marvel Comics #Stan Lee Presents #YouTube

[thatssosony]

What Else is Sony?

Sony is a huge corporation with a lot of names under its wings, here are a few:

Sony Interactive Entertainment

PlayStation

Audio Kinetic

Valkyrie Entertainment

Bluepoint Games

Sony Pictures Entertaiment Inc

Channel Frederator Network

Cartoon Hangover

Crunchy Roll

Jeopardy

Sony Music Group

Epic Records

Sony Music Canada

Columbia Records

#sony #branding

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BTS w/B&PC Part 1

The first Bee and PuppyCat Storyboard 2012 @Scribd

Now that Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space is scheduled to drop on Netflix,  September 6, 2022, I thought I would share some of my recollections as to how this special series of Natasha Allegri’s came to be. –Fred Seibert

In the summer of 2012, my company Frederator announced that our Cartoon Hangover YouTube channel would be calling for pitches for what would be my fifth short cartoons incubator, Too Cool! Cartoons. As with all our other shorts programs, my goal was to bring new creator talent to the world. We’d already succeeded beyond my wildest dreams with Genndy Tartakovksy, Craig McCraken, Pendleton Ward and dozens of other cartoon creators.

But, Too Cool! was going to be different. Our other series had been kids projects only, given they were for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. But, with Cartoon Hangover we had a chance to spread out to a world that had changed dramatically with the internet. Now, cartoon and animation lovers could watch pre-school shows now matter how old they were, the the world of adult oriented cartoons could spread out beyond The Simpsons and South Park.

The question among ourselves was what exactly did “adult” mean.

You can check out all the shorts to find out where we landed, but I have to say, when Natasha pitched the original Bee and PuppyCat storyboard (above), we were a bit perplexed.

Sure, Bee was 20-something, and she opened the cartoon telling us she’d been fired from her job. Adults work, right? And they get fired, right?

But, among ourselves, let me speak for myself here, I thought that adult cartoons that weren’t on network television had a chance to go a little farther than the PG stuff we all were used to. A little “edgier” –whatever that means– a bit naughtier? Whatever vibe I gave out, our vice president of creative affairs and development, Eric Homan, wasn’t sure that Bee and PuppyCat fit the bill.

We all loved Natasha Allegri’s work. Eric, in particular, had noticed her on the crew of Adventure Time, where she’s landed without any background in animation. Creator Pen Ward and Natasha had been trading “diary comics” for several years –both heavily influenced by future Cartoon Hangover creator James’ Kochalka’s American Elf– and Pen brought her aboard his maiden series from the very first day.

And then, there was Fionna and Cake. I won’t go too far down the rabbit hole, but one day we noticed on Natasha’s personal then-blog, this web comic where she’d done the hip thing of the moment and done a gender reversal on Adventure Time. We loved it, put it on the Adventure Time tumblr we’d started, and the readers went crazy. I mean, crazy! Natasha did a follow up, crazy got crazier, and before you know we’d convinced Cartoon Network to do an 11-minute episode in the third season, and it got even more nuts, the highest rated episode until that point. A comicbook series by Natasha followed from Boom! Studios, and cosplayers started showing up to conventions as Fionna instead of Princess Bubblegum. We knew Natasha had the thing.

Nonetheless, was it right for Cartoon Hangover? Eric told Natasha it wouldn’t work, I had concurred, and she started walking home.

More BTS w/B&PC in Part 2.

#Bee and PuppyCat #Behind the Scenes #BTS w/B&PC #Netflix #Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space

[ptbf2002]

A.K.A The Voice Of Ami Onuki, Jenny Wakeman XJ-9, Jerry Mouse, and others

Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi Belongs To Sam Register, Renegade Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network, The Cartoon Network, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

My Life as a Teenage Robot Belongs To Rob Renzetti, Rough Draft Studios, Inc. Frederator Studios, Frederator Networks, Inc. WOW! Unlimited Media Inc. Kartoon Studios, Inc. Nelvana Limited, Corus Entertainment Inc. Nickelodeon Animation Studios, Nickelodeon Productions, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Nickelodeon Group, Paramount Global Content Distribution, Paramount International Networks, Paramount Domestic Media Networks, Paramount Media Networks, Inc. Viacom International Inc. And Paramount Global

Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone Belongs to Martin Powell, Vivien Schrager-Powell, Dave Edwards, Kennedy Cartoons, BigStar Enterprise, Inc. Fil-Cartoons, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Sleepy Kids PLC, Entertainment Rights PLC, Classic Media, LLC, DreamWorks Classics, DreamWorks Animation LLC, Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios LLC, NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, NBCUniversal Media Group, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Comcast Corporation, BBC Worldwide Ltd. BBC Studios Ltd. British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), The Children's Channel. Trouble (TV channel), Virgin Media Television, Living TV Group, And Virgin Media Limited

Over the Moon (2020 film) Belongs To Audrey Wells, Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc. Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. Sony Entertainment, Inc. Sony Corporation of America, Sony Group Corporation, Glen Keane Productions, Shanghai Pearl Studio Film and Television Technology Co., Ltd. China Media Capital, Netflix Animation Studios, Netflix Worldwide Entertainment, LLC, And Netflix, Inc.

Case Closed: The Scarlet Bullet Belongs To Gosho Aoyama, Takeharu Sakurai, TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. SEGA Corporation, SEGA Sammy Holdings Inc. Toho Co., Ltd. And Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group

Tom and Jerry Belongs To William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. Fil-Cartoons, Mr. Big Cartoons, Bardel Entertainment, Inc. Baer Animation Company, CNK International, Seoul Movie Co., Ltd. Toon City Animation Inc. Yearim Productions Co., Ltd. Hanho Heung-Up Co., Ltd. Rough Draft Korea Co. Ltd. Rough Draft Studios, Inc. Lotto Animation, Inc. Renegade Animation, PIP Animation Services Inc. Slap Happy Cartoons Inc. Digital eMation, Inc. Duncan Studio, Rembrandt Films, Sib Tower 12, Inc. MGM Animation/Visual Arts, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studio, Harman-Ising Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. MGM Holdings, Inc. Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon.com, Inc. Turner Entertainment Company, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Kids' WB! The WB, The WB Television Network, Inc. Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC. Tribune Media Company, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Cartoon Network, Boomerang, The Cartoon Network, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest Belongs to William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Tex Avery, Doug Wildey, Jim Krieg, Heath Corson, Yearim Productions Co., Ltd. Turner Entertainment Company, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Studio Distribution Services, LLC. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.