Original Cartoon Title Cards

©2020, Fred Seibert

All rights reserved, including the right to
reproduce this book or portions thereof in
any form whatsoever.

ChalkZone, The Fairly OddParents, Fanboy & Chum Chum,

My Life as a Teenage Robot, Oh Yeah! Cartoons, and Random!
Cartoons TM & ©2020, Viacom Intl., Inc.
All rights reserved. Used with kind permission.

Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! TM & ©2020, Bolder Media, Inc. and

Starz. All rights reserved. Used with kind permission.

Adventure Time and What A Cartoon! TM & ©2020, Cartoon

Network. A Warner Media Company. All rights reserved.
Used with kind permission.

Costume Quest TM & ©2020, Amazon.com, Inc.

All rights reserved. Used with kind permission.

Castlevania TM & ©2020, Project 51 Productions, Ltd.

and Frederator Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.
Used with kind permission.

Ape Escape Cartoons, Bee and PuppyCat, Bravest Warriors,

GO! Cartoons, The Meth Minute 39, Nite Fite, SuperF*ckers,
and Too Cool! Cartoons and GO! Cartoons TM & ©2020,
Frederator Networks, Inc. . All rights reserved. Used with kind
permission.

Cover design & illustration by Carlos Ramos

3rd edition August 2020 Frederator Books

The unconsidered art of the cartoon title card.

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 my productions’ title art. 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.

Well, I’m no art historian, so there won’t be any scintillating examinations

here. Just let me point out that it might be worth checking out the dozens of
talented artists and creators who have shared their work with us. All sorts
of styles are represented, from homage to the one and two color cards seen
in the silents, to sumptuous, nuanced illustrations that are hard to appreciate
in the 10 seconds they’re usually displayed on television. Breadth of craft is
also demonstrated here, from simple typography, pencil on paper, computer
generated images, even paper cut outs.
.....
Within minutes of ruminating about cartoons for the first time –professional-
ly, that is; they probably started dominating my mind as soon as my parents
got their first TV– there was no choice. The model for my productions need-
ed to be patterned after the great shorts during the golden age of the early,
mid-20th century: Looney Tunes, the Disneys, the MGMs, even the first TV
shows from Hanna-Barbera. And there was no joking about the template.

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Our films would hew as close as possible to these classics from front to back.
Beautiful titles with the studio logo, character name, episode name, seven
minutes of squash & stretch hilarity, and “The End.” No deviations, please. It
took a few years to get anyone to agree that we could even make these kinds
of cartoons (thank you kindly, Scott Sassa and Ted Turner). And, among the
creative posse making the first 48 shorts there wasn’t one push back about the
idea of the title cards, they loved everything cartoon. It helped that I was the
president of the studio, but that really had nothing to do with it.

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.”

Cartoon title cards indeed seem to be an unconsidered art, at least

everywhere but at Frederator. This art is no longer ignored, so please feast
your eyes for as long as you
might wish. I guarantee some
gorgeous rewards.

Fred Seibert
Stockbridge, Massachusetts 2020

Fred Seibert founded FredFilms

in 2020. He was the founder and
CEO of Frederator Studios from
1998 until 2020, and the
President of Hanna-Barbera
Cartoons from 1992-1997.

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 Contents
Introduction 3
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
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Cartoon Network 1995-1998

Created by Fred Seibert

Title card video grabs of cartoons by

David Feiss, Joe Barbera,
Ralph Bakshi, John R. Dilworth, Pat Ventura,
Miles Thompson, Joey Ahlbum, Butch Hartman & Michael Ryan,
Bill Hanna, John McIntyre, Craig McCracken,
Bruno Bozetto, Seth MacFarlane, Genndy Tartakovsky,
Van Partible, Robert Alvarez, Rob Renzetti
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Nickelodeon 1998-2002

Created by Fred Seibert

Executive Producers: Larry Huber and Fred Seibert
Title card video grabs of cartoons by
Carlos Ramos, Pat Ventura,
Mike Bell, Seth MacFarlane, Larry Huber,
Bill Burnett & Vincent Waller, Bill Burnett, Rob Renzetti,
Miles Thompson, Dave Wasson,
Byron Vaughns, Tim Biskup, Harvey Kurtzman & Vincent Waller,
Steve Marmel & Butch Hartman, Anotine Guilbaud, John Eng
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Nickelodeon 2001- 2017

Created by Butch Hartman

Executive Producers: Butch Hartman and Fred Seibert
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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Nickelodeon 2002-2005

Created by Bill Burnett & Larry Huber

Executive Producers: Bill Burnett, Larry Huber and Fred Seibert
Title cards by Guy Vasilovich
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Teenage Robot
Nickelodeon 2003-2006

Created by Rob Renzetti

Executive Producers: Rob Renzetti and Fred Seibert
Art direction by Alex Kirwan
Title cards by Joseph Holt
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Nick Jr. 2006-2010

Created by Bob Boyle

Executive Producers: Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert
Title cards by
Steve Daye, James Burks,
Paige Pooler, Don Fuller, Bob Boyle
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Nickelodeon 2008-2009

Created by Fred Seibert

Executive Producers: Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert
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
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& Nite Fite
Channel Frederator 2007-2008

Created by Dan Meth

Executive Producers: Carrie Miller and Fred Seibert
Title card art by Dan Meth
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Nicktoons 2009

Developed by Kevin Kolde & Eric Homan

Executive Producers: Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert
Title cards by Karl Toerge
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Fanboy & Chum Chum
Nickelodeon 2009

Created by Eric Robles

Executive Producers: Eric Robles and Fred Seibert
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
Executive Producers: Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert
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, Han-
na 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

Created by Pendleton Ward

Executive Producers: Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert
Developed by Breehn Burns with Will McRobb & Chris Viscardi
Title cards designed by Breehn Burns
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the original
Bravest Warriors short
for Nickelodeon 2009

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 SuperF*ckers
2013 Cartoon Hangover

Created by James Kochalka

Executive Producers: Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert
Title cards by James Kochalka
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Too Cool! Cartoons
Cartoon Hangover 2013-2014

Created by Fred Seibert

Executive Producers: Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert
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

Created by Natasha Allegri

Executive Producers: Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert
Title cards by Natasha Allegri and Efrain Farias
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 Castlevania
Netflix 2017-2020

Developed by Kevin Kolde

Executive Producers: Warren Ellis, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert
Title card by Powerhouse Animation
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Cartoon Hangover 2017-2018

Created by Fred Seibert

Executive Producers: Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde and Fred Seibert
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

Based on the video game series by Double Fine Productions

and the world originally created by Tasha Sounart
Executive Producers: Eric Homan, Kevin Kolde, Fred Seibert

Title card design by Leonard Hung

Color by Jisoo Kim
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 From "6 Monsters"
Created by Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert
Illustrated by Alex Kirwan
for Random! Cartoons

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