Original Cartoon Posters 1995-2023 (3rd Edition)

ORIGINAL CARTOON
1995-2021
POSTERS
25 YEARS OF
LIMITED EDITION POSTERS
FROM THE CARTOONS OF
AWARD WINNING
INDEPENDENT PRODUCER
FRED SEIBERT
The Frederator Films Professional Library #6

A Book of
Original Cartoon Posters
1995-2021
©2021, by Fred Seibert
All rights reserved.
ChalkZone, The Fairly Oddparents, Fanboy & Chum Chum,

Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Oh Yeah! Cartoons, and Random!
Cartoons ©2021, Viacom Intl., Inc. All rights reserved.
Adventure Time with Finn & Jake, Cartoon Network, Cow

and Chicken, Dexter's Laboratory, Dino, George and Junior,
Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls, The Worm, Hard
Luck Duck, Pfish and Chip, Yuckie Duck, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons,
What A Cartoon!, World Premiere Toons, TM & ©2021,
Cartoon Network. A WarnerMedia Company.
Costume Quest, TM & ©2021, Amazon.com. All rights reserved.
Bravest Warriors, Bee and PuppyCat, Catbug, Channel

Frederator, Slug Riot, TM & ©2021, Frederator Networks, Inc.
Castlevania, TM & ©2021, Project 51 Productions, Inc.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book

or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.
2nd edition January 2021

Introduction
.......................................
Maybe it was the handmade poster that some kid

lettered for my very first paying gig (as a six grade
snake and reptile lecturer [!] for younger kids at my
Long Island library). Or the rock posters every high
schooler had to have on a late 60s bedroom wall.
Somehow, I got the poster bug.
'Growing up' to become a media executive I never

missed the chance to create a poster for whatever
we were promoting at the time. And as the executive
producer of all the cartoons in this book the chance to
recreate the heyday of the theatrical animation
experience grabbed me by the throat and hasn't let go.
–Fred Seibert
January 2021
The first, by far

not the last,
music poster in
my collection
1967
Jefferson Airplane
painting by
Jim Michaelson
(1943 - 2019)
4 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS
What A Cartoon!/World Premiere Toons 1995-7
..................................................
BF (Before Frederator), I was the last President of Hanna-Barbera

Cartoons, where I dropped my first big idea cartoon shorts
incubator, What A Cartoon! on Cartoon Network. It seemed to me
that cartoons and, more importantly, their creators had been unjustly
ignored for too long, and so I dedicated the studio to publicizing
these filmmakers in every way possible.
Modernizing the movie studio one sheets that accompanied classic

theatrical cartoons, I asked studio creative director Bill Burnett to
adapt the original art from the cartoons into the modern rock poster
styles Frank Kozik introduced in the early 1990s.
The Powerpuff Girls 1995

.......................................
At 22 years old, Craig McCracken was already

in the art department at 2 Stupid Dogs and on
his way to art directing Dexter's Laboratory
when he showed me his student film of "The
Whoopass Girls."
Some depressing focus groups didn't slow down

the progress of a new name, a spiffed up design,
and a genuine cultural phenomenon.
Craig McCracken: creator

#craigmccracken
Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler:
art direction & design
Bill Burnett: Creative Director
Offset
17" x 22"

Dexter's Laboratory 1995
.......................................
Genndy Tartakovsky is one of the most admired

directors in cartoons and feature films today. But,
the Dexter's Laboratory cartoon short was his first
commercial film and became the first original series
(and a big hit, at that) on Cartoon Network.
Genndy Tartakovsky: creator

@genndytartakovsky
Offset
17" x 22"

Yuckie Duck 1995
.......................................
I had a particular soft spot for Pat Ventura. He was

not only the first WAC! alumnus and loved classic
cartoons, but he helped school me as to what made
for great cartoons
We made two George and Juniors, two Yuckie

Ducks and then Sledgehammer O'Possum, which
really pushed the boundaries of a kids film.
Pat Ventura: creator

Offset
17" x 22"

Dino 1995
.......................................
All of the new folks at WAC! were honored, and

honestly, a little intimidated, when both Joe Barbera
and Bill Hanna agreed to contribute shorts.
Joe Barbera: director

Offset
17" x 22"

Johnny Bravo 1995
.......................................
Animator Van Partible was barely out of school

when he started Johnny Bravo at Hanna-Barbera.
Working with limited resources and brand new
digital technology, his short became the third WAC!
series, and has been dogged with rumors of a live
action feature ever since.
Van Partible: creator

@vanpartible
Offset
17" x 22"

Sledgehammer O'Possum 1995
.......................................
It's probable that my affection for Pat Ventura, his

style and his fondness for "cartoon violence"
allowed my judgement to go out on a limb with this
one. Though it was produced earlier, programmers
pushed it to the end of the WAC! run on Cartoon
Network.
Pat Ventura: creator

Offset
17" x 22"

George and Junior 1995
.......................................
The earliest animator to sign up for the What A

Cartoon! project was Pat Ventura. But, instead of
contributing an original his first time up (those
would come later) Pat wanted a shot at updating Tex
Avery's George and Junior, a theatrical team from
the Ted Turner (the Hanna-Barbera owner) con-
trolled MGM library. Not your grandfather's Geo &
Jr., that is for sure.
Pat Ventura: director

Offset
17" x 22"

Hard Luck Duck 1995
.......................................
Bill Hanna was the sharpest comedic director in all

of animation, a true innovator. The first of his two
WAC! shorts, Hard Luck Duck proved it when the
cartoon brought down the house at our first industry
screening for young alterna-hipsters.
Bill Hanna: creator

Offset
17" x 22"

Pfish and Chip 1995
.......................................
Butch Hartman, Eugene Mattos,

& Michael Rann: creators
Offset
17" x 22"

Cow and Chicken 1995
.......................................
Dave Feiss' career in animation went back to the

early 80s when he presented one of the funniest
storyboards in the WAC! pitch process. Cow and
Chicken went on to be the program's second series,
and the only one that spun off a sequel: I Am Wea-
sel.
David Feiss: creator

@david_feiss
Offset
17" x 22"

The Worm 1997
.......................................
Eddie Fitzgerald's vision on cartoons in the 90s was

as unique as his laugh. And I thought his attempt
to bring psychoanalysis into the realm of comedy
animation was worth a shot. Eddie had a tough time
making his final directorial and illustrative decisions
so The Worm had one of the longest WAC! production
cycles, pushing its debut to almost the end of the
series.
Eddie Fitzgerald: creator

Offset
17" x 22"

Melvin & Malcolm 1997
.......................................
Buzz Potamkin was my head of production at

Hanna-Barbera and the biggest supporter of the idea
of What A Cartoon! Makes sense, since when we
worked together on MTV animation, Buzz was the
first person to give me unofficial tutoring in the way
of the commercial cartoon business.
And after two years of convincing Ted Turner and

Scott Sassa (Turner's President of Entertainment)
that shorts were the path to Cartoon Network's
greatest successes, Buzz was the one who suggested
that getting the unique, irrepressible Ralph Bakshi
would be a cherry on top of our project, giving all
our unknowns a kind of Hollywood credibility.
After all, Ralph began his animation career at
Terrytoons before turning the world upside down
with Fritz the Cat and Lord of the Rings.
Ralph excited me with his desire to make a jazz mu-

sician the center of his film, jazz being the original
underpinning of H&B scores during its golden peri-
od. Added to his star-like luster it blinded me to the
fact that while his was one of our first greenlights,
his production "process" resulted in some of the last
cartoons.
Ralph Bakshi: creator

@ ralph_bakshi
Offset
17" x 22"

Hatch Show Print, Nashville
.......................................
The 1996 national board meeting of the American Institute of

Graphic Arts was held in Nashville, Tennessee, down the street
from the storied Hatch Show Print, the country music home of
letterpress, woodblock printing.
I fell in love with the place and its chief designer and archivist Jim
Sherraden. I've had Hatch Show design and print over a dozen of
my celebration posters over the years.
Goodbye Hanna-Barbera 1996

.......................................
Once Ted Turner decided to sell all his Turner

Broadcasting Company holdings, including Hanna-
Barbera and Cartoon Network, it would only be a
matter of time before I left. It was amazing working
for a media genius like Ted and I appreciated having
a renegade entrepreneur as a boss. The idea of
working for a faceless corporation like Warner Bros.
didn't really appeal to my nature.
But, after five years of overseeing an unlikely turn-

around at the legendary studio and working with
hundreds of people, I found myself more emotional
than I would have expected. (Maybe getting married
and having a first child during my time at the studio
helped too!) I asked my newfound friends at Hatch
put together a keepsake for all my co-workers. It's
one of my greatest joys when I still get a note from
one of them, accompanied by a snap of the poster in
their home.
Fred Seibert: creator

@fredseibert
Hatch Show Print:
design & production
@hatchshowprint
Letterpress
13" x 22.25"

Frederator Studios 1997
.......................................
Illustrator Arlen Schumer –a collaborator over

several years– insisted on giving me a gift for the
launch of Frederator, a company birth notice. He
crossbred my severely bushy eyebrows, Gigantor's
nose, and my fascination with the modern poster
innovator Frank Kozik. Master artist Patrick Raske
provided the color and a Michigan silkscreen printer
was engaged.
Frederator Studios, with assistant Stephanie

Stephens, came to be in North Hollywood
on January 6, 1997, with our first cartoons
released in 1998.
Arlen Schumer: illustration & design

@arlenschumer
Patrick Raske: color
@peraske
Silkscreen
9" x 11"

Oh Yeah! Cartoons 1998
.......................................
What better way to celebrate our second big idea

incubator (notable for the first appearances of Butch
Hartman's The Fairly Oddparents and Bill Burnett's
& Larry Huber's ChalkZone) but to fit 39 modern
cartoon titles on a limited edition poster with old
fashioned wood block typography? For Frederator's
first Hatch Show collaboration we asked for their
'classic' look, and it became the perfect remem-
brance for all of our animation creators to sign at
the wrap party.
And here's where Frederator introduced the slogan

"Original Cartoons since 1998," the catch being it
actually was 1998. We're all about original talent
and their original ideas, and we wanted to have a
little fun. They're cartoons, after all.

@fredseibert
Hatch Show Print:
design & production
@hatchshowprint
Letterpress
15" x 24"

.......................................

@fredseibert
Hatch Show Print:
design & production
@hatchshowprint
Letterpress
15" x 24"

.......................................

@fredseibert
Hatch Show Print:
design & production
@hatchshowprint
Letterpress
15" x 24"

New Year's Posters
.......................................
The last 30 years haven't been kind to commercial posters,

broadcasting and the internet have made them virtually extinct.
And I thought that the Herman Miller summer picnic posters
series from 1970 onward, designed by Stephen Frykholm, were a
gas, so I wanted in on the action. Art posters continue to be alive
and well, maybe more so with the advent of direct selling on the
internet. I like being part of that select group with my (some-
times) regularly released, limited edition New Year's posters.
New Year's 2002

.......................................
Frederator's expansion to a New York office

around the turn of the century seemed like a
perfect moment to inaugurate the New Year's
poster program. And an expanded personnel
roster (for building out media on the internet)
suggested the perfect execution.
Patrick Raske pulled off this digital take on an

old school letterpress poster, often associated with
boxing, circuses, and old rock'n'roll and country
music concerts.
Patrick Raske: art direction,

design & production
@peraske
Digital
13" x 20"

The Fairly OddParents 2002
.......................................
There were no bigger pop stars in the world

than 'N Sync when one of their singers, Chris
Kirkpatrick, graciously agreed to guest star in FOP's
"Shiny Teeth."
Butch Hartman: creator

@butchhartman
George Goodchild:
character design
@gogoodchild
Digital
17" x 26"

New Year's 2003
.......................................
From artist Jorge Gutierrez:
"This poster was my personal greeting card to the

animation community. I met tons of artists, producers
and executives because of it. It really opened a ton
of doors for a young cartoonista like myself.
"And as far as the actual design, it was able to

showcase all my favorite Mexican things: Lucha
Libre, Dia de los Muertos, Mariachis, Catholic
iconography, Posada typograph and hot Mexican
women. It was an incredible honor to have been
asked to design it.
"Gracias Fred!”
Jorge R. Gutierrez:
illustration, design & production
@mexopolis
Silkscreen
14.5" x 22.5"

My Life as a Teenage Robot 2003
.......................................
Rob Renzetti first created his teenage robot

as an Oh Yeah! Cartoons short in 1999. In
2003, MLaaTR went on to become Frederator's
third spin-off series.
Together with creative director Alex Kirwan, Rob

put together a world class art department, including
character designer Jill Friemark, whose robot icons
persisted in logos, postcards, and, of course, posters.
Rob Renzetti: creator

@renzettirob
Jill Friemark: illustration & design
imdb.com/name/nm1172101
Digital
15" x 27"

.......................................
I love back-in-the-day style title cards, no matter

how our network overseers feel about them. Luckily,
our creators feel the same way, like Butch Hartman
did when he made this poster from the first season
of his juggernaut that is The Fairly OddParents.
Butch Hartman
@butchhartman
Digital
11" x 14"

.......................................
After almost 80 shorts, creator Butch

Hartman concocted the first OddParents TV
movie with head writer Steve Marmel.
Hatch Show concocted the commemorative.
Butch Hartman
@butchhartman
Hatch Show Print:
design & production
@hatchshowprint
Letterpress
13" x 22"

ChalkZone 2003
.......................................
Bill Burnett & Larry Huber: creators

Hatch Show Print:
design & production
@hatchshowprint
Letterpress
13" x 22"

New Year's 2004
.......................................
Animation artist and writer Eugene Mattos (known

as Genoooooooooooooooooooooooooo! to his
friends) has a knack for robots. When it came time
to reinterpret Arlen Schumer's original Fredbot, we
knew where to turn.
Eugene Mattos: illustration

William Dunnigan: production
Offset
18" x 27"

Nicktoons Film Festival 2004
.......................................
I created this film-festival-on-television for the

late night audience on Nickelodeon's new 24 hour
cartoon network.
The INTERspectacular team gave the

logo and this poster just the right touch of
the weird that the event needed to attract
serious short filmmakers from around
the world.

Michael Uman & Luis Blanco: design
Digital
12.5" x 19.5"

ChalkZone 2004
.......................................
Bill Burnett and Larry Huber created the ChalkZone

series (an Oh Yeah! Cartoons spin-off) in a distinc-
tive world coupled with a singular visual palette
created by art director Carlos Ramos. I wanted them
to show it off with a commemorative that reflected
the show 'through-the-looking-glass' appeal.

Frank Rocco: illustration
Will Dunnigan: production
Offset
18" x 28"

.......................................
It had been five long years since the last

recruitment of talent for my patented shorts
programs that incubated the great talent and
big ideas of the cartoon industry, and I was
concerned that animation talent had forgot-
ten the hopes and dreams our cartoons repre-
sented. (As it turned out we had no worries.)
These next two posters were meant to be
community reminders. And then everyone
needed to be prompted all over again when
the network wanted a new name:
Random! Cartoons.

@fredseibert
Digital
27" x 41"

.......................................

@fredseibert
Digital
27" x 41"

My Life as a Teenage Robot 2005
.......................................
From creative director Alex Kirwan:

"For our first movie-length special we wanted to
create a stylish opening title sequence that fit our
pulp-y, sci-fi title. I thought that it would be neat if
all the visuals for the titles evoked the sensationalis-
tic ballyhoo and graphics of 1950's sci-fi promotion-
al material.
"Then, at the end of the sequence we could pull the

camera back to reveal that all the elements formed a
giant movie poster. Shawn and Joseph Holt worked
hard to help me complete all the individual pieces
used in the animation, and the whole thing came
together rather nicely. As a side effect, we ended up
with an already completed poster design, which we
printed up as a comiccon giveaway."
Rob Renzetti: creator

@renzettirob
Alex Kirwan, Poster comp
Joseph Holt, Shawnee Holt: illustrated by
illustration & design Alex Kirwan
@alexkirtoon
josephholtart.com
#shawneeholt
Digital
13.5" x 19.5"

New Year's 2006
.......................................
Artist Frank Olinsky and I have been friends since

we met on a dirt hill in my new backyard in October
1955. We’ve grown up to collaborate hundreds of
times, maybe most notably on the iconic MTV logo.
Frank wasn't sure he could meet the three week

deadline, but then characteristically, he delivered
this completed poster by email only three days later.
A sculpture of styrofoam, plastic cups, straws, and
cardboard, it also marks the first time our robot
was christened, in Frank's simple, unique way, the
"Fredbot."
And to complete a circle, production and printing

contractor Will Dunnigan was the third childhood
neighbor who lived right in between us back in the
neighborhood.
Frank Olinsky: sculpture,

www.frankolinsky.com
Offset
18" x 24"

New Year's 2007
.......................................
Channel Frederator, the world's first cartoon

podcast, debuted in November 2005 and quickly
we met thousands of new, talented animators
from around the world. To celebrate, we
inaugurated the Channel Frederator Awards
in Hollywood, where lucky winners would
receive their very own "Freddie" statues.
World class animation artist and designer

Frank Rocco agreed to design the awesome
Freddie sculpture and program cover illustration.
I loved it so much that program designers
Adams-Morioka adapted the image into our
annual New Year's poster.
Frank Rocco: illustration

AdamsMorioka:
@seanaadams
@noreenmorioka
Offset
18" x 24"
CFA winner
Jessica Borutski
& Freddie
Random! Cartoons 2007
.......................................
By the end of the first two decades of the 21st

century our cartoon incubators seem to have
taken on a legendary life of their own, having
spawned two dozen series. Random! Cartoons
started life as Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Season 4, but
took on its own identity, fitting for a new century.
Random! spawned to monster hits, Eric Robles'

Fanboy & Chum Chum Pendleton Ward's
Adventure Time and Bravest Warriors, and with
them, new cartoon vocabularies, both visually and
comedically.

@fredseibert
Hatch Show Print:
design & production
@hatchshowprint
Letterpress
13" x 22.25"

Channel Frederator 2007
.......................................
Filmmaker and artist Ben Ross has a special

place in Channel Frederator history, having
submitted his film "Lunch Time" to our second
episode. After graduating from SVA in New York he
interned at our distributor Next New Networks (and
eventually made films at Frederator Studios) where
he illustrated this gorgeous sui generis Fredbot poster
for the network's second birthday.
Ben Ross: design & illustration

@benmonstertv
Digital
27" x 24"

New
. . . . .Year's
. . . . . .2008
.......................
2008 was a big Frederator year, the 10th

anniversary of the release of our first cartoons.
Finally, our tongue in cheek slogan, "Original
cartoons since 1998," would have some history
behind the humor.
Naturally, we turned to our closest design partners

of the era, Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka, to
help memorialize in art direction. In their careful,
but never too serious, manner, they oversaw every
detail of the soda/beer can illustration right through
to the gorgeous silkscreen production. It's been
seen framed in more offices than any of our other
posters.
AdamsMorioka,
Sean Adams & Noreen Morioka:
@seanaadams
@noreenmorioka
Silkscreen
24" x 36"

Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! 2008
.......................................
Bob Boyle's style is a meld of his long love for

Japanese vinyl toys and everything illustrated and
cartooned. His Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! is no excep-
tion, if you throw in the metaphor of a Lego set.
My Bolder Media partner, Susan Miller, brought

in her longtime collaborators, KICK Design, to
prepare Bob's characters for consumer products
around the world. They took the Lego fixation
seriously and created this wonderful poster image
to showcase the show's flexibility.
Bob Boyle: creator

@bobboyle
KICK Design:
composition & logo design
@kickdesign_nyc
Digital
16" x 25"

Channel Frederator Awards 2008
.......................................
Leslie Cabarga started as a world class professional

before he was out of high school, and his illustra-
tions, logos, fonts, and books have made him a
legend. We were lucky to meet him during our brief
relationship with Kitchen Sink Press, and turned to
him when it came time to design the 2nd Channel
Frederator Awards in 2008. Next New Networks'
Rachel Garcia thought the New York City location
and Freddie statue screamed for a Fritz Lang Me-
tropolis theme. Leslie's morphing of the two is an
all time classic.
Leslie Cabarga: art direction

#lesliecabarga
Digital
18" x 25"

Drinking and Drawing Events
..................................................
One night, internet animator Dan Meth had an idea. He opened a

tab at a bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with a light box,
a Sharpie, and hundreds of index cards. He was going to drink beer
and draw until he had enough for a film. "Drinking and Drawing"
became the most experimental cartoon in his Channel Frederator
hit series The Meth Minute 39.
It also gave me a 'Eureka' moment. Animators need to get together

more often, so why not set up an actual animation event? Starting
at the 2007 Platform Animation Festival, and irregularly in cities
across America, I sponsored –and Carrie Miller produced– a night
of jamming artists. 100 intrepid souls draw animation sequences
on eight to fifteen cards and hand off their last drawing to the next
jammer. The cards are scanned, edited, and scored and there's a
cartoon!
The films dropped at Channel Frederator.
Drinking and Drawing January 23, 2008

.......................................
Lee Rubenstein was Dan Meth's producer on

his first bar night and co-produced our initial
New York events. For the first public event
he designed our poster giveaway too. And the
Frederator D+D logo too.
Lee Rubinstein: illustration & design

@eatsleepdraw
Dan Meth: creator
www.danmeth.com
Digital
12" x 17"

Drinking and Drawing April 23, 2008
.......................................
From the invation postcard:
Dan Meth + Frederator Studios present

DRINKING AND DRAWING
OK New York, it’s that time again.

It’s a revolution:
the marriage of partying and cartoon production.
It’s the second New York City

Drinking and Drawing
animator jam session.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008, at the
M1-5 Bar/Cocktail
52 Walker Street.
Everyone is welcome to attend the party, but

only the first 100 animators and artists will get to
draw a section of the film we’re making.
If you’re an animator, an artist, or you work in

the cartoon business, come on by.
Producer: Carrie Miller

Co-producer: Lee Rubenstein
Jeaux Janovsky:
illustration & design
@jeauxj
Dan Meth: creator
www.danmeth.com
Digital
12" x 17"

Drinking & Drawing June 24, 2009
.......................................
An Australian (by way of London) expatriate in

New York, Elliot Cowan quickly brings his person-
ality –drawn and verbal– everywhere. Thankfully,
he brought it to D+D with this poster too.
Eliot Cowan: illustration & design

@elliotcowan
Dan Meth: creator
www.danmeth.com
Digital
12" x 17"
Creator Dan Meth

(right) and
Bobby Miller
Poster artist
Elliot Cowan (left)
and James Sugrue
.......................................
A ratings blockbuster movie in three parts,

"Wishology" deserved the special treatment it was
given by Butch Hartman's art team for this poster.

@butchhartman
Ernie Gilbert: illustration
@erniegilbert
Kaz Aizawa: painting
@kazualdiver
George Goodchild: art director
@gogoodchild
Digital
11" x 14"
An internal
MTV Networks
promotion
by Nickelodeon
Creative Resources
.......................................
The FairlyOddParents in all its incarnations (car-

toons, animated TV movies, live action TV movies)
are still wowing audiences across the world. And
given how quickly these two promotional posters
(Foop's on the next page) disappeared at the 2009
San Diego Comic-Con it's clear the fanboys and
fangirls feel the same way.

@butchhartman
Ernie Gilbert: illustration & design
@erniegilbert
Digital
15" x 20"

.......................................

@butchhartman
Ernie Gilbert: illustration & design
@erniegilbert
Digital
15" x 20"

Channel Frederator
& Next New Networks 2009
.......................................
Frank Olinsky was commissioned by Next New

Networks (Channel Frederator's distributor) to
design a series of limited edition posters for adver-
tisers and friends of the company. The only limita-
tion was that all the images had to be created with
his hands, a slam dunk for a resourceful artist like
Frank. He referred back to the Fredbot he created
for our 2006 New Year's poster, and laid it out in an
homage to a famous Elvis Presley singles collec-
tion. But that wasn't 'hand' enough for him, so Frank
took a marker and retraced all the robots.
I loved the mess.
Frank Olinsky: design & illustration

Offset
14" x 22"

Adventure Time 2009
.......................................
By the summer of 2009, anticipation was

running high for Pendleton Ward's Adventure
Time series, my second Random! Cartoons spin off
production. The Cartoon Network staff from Atlanta
gathered in California for a sneak peek, and the AT
crew put on quite a show, including this welcome
poster.
Nick Jennings: art direction

wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Jennings_(artist)
Phil Rynda: layout & character design
@philrynda
Tom Herpich, Natasha Allegri:
character design
@tomherpich
@natazilla
Catherine Simmons: color
Digital
27" x 41"

Fanboy & Chum Chum 2009
.......................................
An instant hit upon its debut in late 2009, Fanboy &

Chum Chum was the initial series to come out of my
Random! Cartoons incubator. As my first CG series,
the preview poster --slated for the 2009 San Diego
Comic-Con-- had to be killer.
Luckily, creator Eric Robles is a killer artist.
Eric Robles: creator & designer

@rrrrobles
Chad Woods: painter
www.chadwoods.blogspot.com
Nickelodeon CG: rendering
Offset
11" x 17"

.......................................
The 2009 San Diego Comic-Con was the

public coming out party for our FB& CC heroes and
their first poster.. One year later they're a bona fide
phenomenon and lucky Con-goers get a second
chance to own a limited edition part of history.

@rrrrobles
Eddie Trigueros: design
#eddietrigueros
Patrick Krebs & Chad Woods:
lighting and color
# Patrick Krebs
Michael Franceschi and Jason Meier:
CG poses
@michael.franceschi
Offset
11" x 17"

.......................................
The next three Fanboy posters are limited

editions. And, we mean really limited. In
fact, there’s only one of each of these, and
they're in Eric Robles’s office at Nick
Animation Studios in Burbank, California.

@rrrrobles
Chad Woods: painter
Digital
27" x 40"

.......................................

@rrrrobles
Chad Woods: painter
Digital
27" x 40"

.......................................

@rrrrobles
Chad Woods: painter
Digital
27" x 40"
Eric Robles'
office
2010
Adventure Time Fan Posters
..................................................
Adventure Time helped kick off the fan art movement big
time when it inspired hundreds of fan art tributes five years
before the series debuted on Cartoon Network in early 2010
(the millions of internet video views for the original short must
have helped). One of the show's production assistants, artist
Joseph Game, reached out to his companions at The Autumn
Society to create faux posters.
Adventure Time 2010

.......................................
Dave Perillo draws inspiration for his work from many

of the following sources: 1950's sci-fi movies, Charles
Schultz, Jim Flora, Ray Harryhausen, Roy Lichtenstein,
Jim Henson, Hanna-Barbera, The Twilight Zone, Alfred
Hitchcock and character advertising icons.
Dave currently resides in the 'burbs of Philly, works as

an illustrator, believes that bowling is the sport of kings
and a bag of Swedish Fish is a seafood dinner.
"I thought it would be cool to do a comic book inspired

cover for Adventure Time, the kind of cover you might
see in a digest size sitting next to some Archie comics
on a rack in five n' dime."
Pendleton Ward: creator

Dave Perillo: illustration & design
@montygog
Digital
24" x 31"

Adventure Time 2010
.......................................
Raised by feral robot wolves in the backwoods

of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Tom Whalen (aka
Strongstuff) has a high-pitched metallic voice in his
head directing him to create all manner of things
robotic, monstrous and heroic.
"My unhealthy addiction to retro design, my vora-

cious appetite for compact color schemes, and my
mutant ability to see the negative space all around
me helped to craft this WPA-style travel poster for
Adventure Time."

Tom Whalen: illustration & design
@strongstuff
Digital
27" x 41"

Adventure Time 2010
.......................................
"I'm a freelance animator/illustrator, residing

in Victoria, BC Canada. Aside from having
a passion for the arts, I enjoy spending time
with my beautiful daughter Paige. After seeing
the Adventure Time animated short, I knew it
would be one of my number one shows. With
this illustration, I wanted to recreate some
of the whimsy and fresh hilarity that the show
exudes."

Dan Schoening: illustration & design
www.dapperdans.blogspot.com
Digital
27" x 41"

Adventure Time 2010
.......................................
"I'm a graphic designer and I like making

things. I also love Adventure Time because,
well, let's face it: it's totally mathematical.
Need I say more?"

Brandon Schaefer
www.seekandspeak.com
Digital
27" x 34"

Adventure Time 2010
.......................................
Born and raised in Ecuador, South America, as

Joseph Game, the creature now known as Chogrin
resides in Burbank, California, working on the hit
animated TV series, Adventure Time. Chogrin's
illustration work is influenced by Ub Iwerks, The
Fleicher brothers, and Osamu Tezuka, all in which
he blends to create his experiments.
"Seeing the original short in 2006, inspired by

Pen Ward's vision and neo-rubberhose style, I had
always wanted to do a tribute for Adventure Time.
Finding out in 2009 that I would be working on the
new series, I knew it was time to finally do one."

Joseph Game a.k.a Chogrin:
illustration & design
@chogrin
Digital
27" x 34"

New
. . . . .Year's
. . . . . .2011
.......................
Ben Ross was a student in a class I visited and

became an intern at Frederator and my streaming
programming company Next New Networks. No
matter what his official assignment, Ben was
always re-illustrating the Fredbot. And I couldn’t
help using his work. Often. (As you will see.)
Ben Ross: illustration

@ benmonstertv
Dan Padavic, Vahalla Studios:
production
@valhalla
Screen print
18” x 24”

Frederator 2011
.......................................
I got my first big career boosts because of the

attention given to cable network logos for MTV
and Nickelodeon I had developed with Manhattan
Design and Corey MacPherson Nash.
For a postcard series in 2003, Sean Adams and

Noreen Morioka poked a little fun with these faux
Frederator logos, then took the black & white
originals and colored them for their book on, of all
things, color theory.
I thought it would make a nice office poster.
AdamsMorioka,
Sean Adams & Noreen Morika: design
@seanaadams
@noreenmorioka
Digital
18" x 25"

New
. . . . .Year's
. . . . . .2012
.......................
One day I started messing around with Photoshop

and a mouse.

production
@valhalla
Screen Print
18” x 24”

SVA February 16, 2012
.......................................
In 1972, Steven Heller was the art director at the

infamous Screw Magazine(!) when he helped me
out with some typesetting for the first album I
produced and released on Oblivion Records. It was
a fleeting encounter and while I followed his ca-
reer –Steve is the world's most published author on
graphic design, with almost 150 books and count-
ing– there was no reason he recalled our meeting
when I cold called him for something related to
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons.
So started an acquaintance which has heartened me

for the past quarter century.
And that's not all! Steve and Lita Talarico founded

and are co-chairs of New York's SVA MFA pro-
gram, Designer as Author + Entrepreneur.
Occasionally, they ask me to come and speak to
their group of carefully curated, supremely talented
classes. This particular year it wasn't only about
cartoons but about the revolution of YouTube and
streaming video.
I'll talk to students anywhere, anytime, remem-

bering how hungry I was for any morsels of infor-
mation that could help me get a leg up on my own
inconceivable future.
Francesco Izzo: design & illustration

@frazzimono
Digital
11" x 17"

New Year's 2013
.......................................
Eric Robles is the talented artist who created

our production of two seasons of Fanboy &
Chum Chum in 2009 for Nickelodeon. Aside
from being great he was versatile and showed
it here with a characteristic master mix of
action, sci-fi and comedy.
Eric Robles: illustration

@ rrrrobles
Offset
15" x 20"
Rrrrobles with his Frederator sketch

Cartoon Hangover 2013
.......................................
These next few pages of Cartoon Hangover, Brav-

est Warriors and Catbug fall into the category of
posters-I-wish-we- had published. You can't always
get want you want.
The entire programming team at Frederator Net-

works agreed we need to update the Cartoon Hang-
over visual branding to distinguish from the more
established Channel Frederator and Frederator
Studios.
Who better for the assignment than my old friend

and MTV co-designer, album art director extraordi-
naire, Frank Olinsky?
Frank came up with a fantastic flat spin on Jeaux

Janovsky's original logo, then exploded it in a
poster comp.

Frank Olinsky: illustration & design
Unpublished
30” x 36”

Cartoon Hangover 2013
.......................................

Unpublished
30” x 36”

Bravest Warriors 2013
.......................................
Frank always liked to explode things. He'd done

a great blast for me back in the day of the MTV
logo. Then, I guess he worried that I'd become
more... conservative? Nah!

Unpublished
30” x 36”

Catbug 2013
.......................................
It was pretty clear pretty quickly that the character

for Breehn Burns created for Bravest Warriors was
a breakout star. Voiced by a special, young actor,
Sam Lavagnino, Catbug's 10 year old personality
is very kind and eager to make friends, but can still
fail to grasp the consequences of his actions.
I suppose the question is whether Catbug is actually

10, or many decades older.
Like all great characters, CB can be rendered any

infinite amount of ways. Frank Olinsky found that
simpler, and softer, really is better.
Breehn Burns: creator

@breehnburns
Unpublished
24” x 36”

Bravest Warriors 2013
.......................................
This poster we actually printed, if only in a very

limited edition. But, I was able to repurpose it into
one of our postcards, so it made its way to a much
bigger audience.
A great idea is a good idea. Why let it go to waste?
Breehn Burns: illustration

@breehnburns
Digital
22” x 30”

New Year's 2014
.......................................
Out for a friend’s birthday dinner at Lafayette New

York, the third restaurant in its location over 30
years, I was confronted with a simple, bold set of
murals on walls all through the place. The food was
great but I wanted to track down the artist, who as
luck would have it, was based in Los Angeles, near
Frederator Studios.
Eric Junker responded viscerally to my request and

immediately went to work on a poster for the new
year. He silk screened them in his studio and gave
us a choice of colors.
Eric Junker: illustration,

art direction & production
@ericjunker
Silk screen
18" x 24"
The Eric Junker studio Lafayette, NYC

BAM May 8, 2014
.......................................
Back when the Animation Block Party film festival miere of Adventure Time in 2010
was a curly haired infant, I had a day job managing the Frederator provided animation
School of Visual Arts Animation Department. SVA An- culture with a true game-changer,
imation shared its facility space with the school’s MFA igniting an industry spark that had
Design program, where Glenn Eaton, the original ABP been vacant since the emergence
web architect, worked as a system admin. An innovative of SpongeBob SquarePants.
animation producer named Fred Seibert would hold an-
nual lectures for Steve Heller and Lita Talarico’s talented On Thursday, May 8, Animation
MFA students. Their graduate library was full of Freder- Block is honored to be presenting
ator postcard books, as it is paramount for a young artist the first ever Frederator Retro-
to experience the fusion of graphic design and cartoon spective at the Brooklyn Academy
layout in print form. of Music. We’ll be screening ex-
clusive content from their cartoon
Glenn thought it was important that Fred and I meet. archives followed by a Q&A with
He introduced us circa 2005 and I stopped by the Fred- the man behind the brand. Please
erator office to pitch a terrible cartoon idea. Fred hit come join us at BAM for a rare
me up with his trademark straight talk and explained a look into an animation entrepre-
concept he was prepping called Channel Frederator, set neur who embraces the Sinatra
to premiere on iTunes shortly. His office was full of life, code of old Hollywood while
with animators like Dan Meth at work on the YouTube balancing the digital stratosphere
groundbreaking Meth Minute, while Carrie Miller multi- of NYC finance.
tasked various projects and future Tumblr creator David
Karp wrote code for the studio’s first blog platform. "Animation Block Presents:
The Frederator Retrospective"
Starting in 1981, Fred helped facilitate the rise of Animation Magazine
MTV. He was their first creative director and the visual By Casey Safron
accent behind the network’s most memorable on-air April 29, 2014
promotions. A few years later, Fred partnered with Alan
Goodman to form Fred/Alan Inc., where they oversaw
a reconstruct of Nickelodeon and brought the network Isam Prado:
back to prominence. Seibert was named the president of
Hanna-Barbera in 1992 and launched a shorts initiative, design & illustration
which in turn generated hit series for Cartoon Network, @isamprado
including Powerpuff Girls and Dexter’s Laboratory. Digital
16" x 25"
Frederator Studios was formed in 1998. They released
Oh, Yeah! Cartoons — riffing on Fred’s Hanna-Barbera
shorts program. Oh, Yeah! spawned the hit series The
Fairly OddParents and My Life as a Teenage Robot. In
2002, Fred produced the preschool smash, Wow! Wow!
Wubbzy! and soon began testing the tech waters with
Channel Frederator. Fred and his partners launched the
web venture Next New Networks in 2007, which was
eventually sold to YouTube. At this crossroads, most hu-
man beings might consider retirement, but with the pre-

New Year's 2015
.......................................
The in-house designer at Frederator/New York

was a skilled and talented typographic artist, so
I asked Ambar del Moral to take the lead in for
our annual poster. She grabbed a background
from a GIF production tag made by Berlin based
Colin Raff and overlaid her original hand drawn
letterforms. And then, the always excellent Dan
Padavic in Kansas City did his always exceptional
screen printing.
Ambar del Moral: illustration & design

@ambardelmoral
Colin Raff: background illustration
@colinraff
production
@valhalla
Screen print
18” x 24”

Original Cartoon Shorts 2015
.......................................
A promotion book celebrating my history in devel-

oping cartoon talent was meant for giveaways to
streaming and network executives (it was recent-
ly reissued as part of the FredFilms Professional
Library). This poster decorated our studio offices in
Burbank.
Digital
16.5” x 24”

The Declaration of
Cartoon Independents 2015
.......................................
This poster was about the book that featured se-

lected limited edition postcards Frederator pub-
lished about a couple of our YouTube channels and
networks. The team leader had moved out to the
Burbank office and I didn't want him to feel left out
when it came to poster displays.
Digital
16.5” x 24”

New Year's 2016
.......................................
Ben Ross not only constantly messed with the basic

form of the Fredbot, but loved to contrast scale too.
This particular illustration was one of my very fa-
vorites, especially the juxtaposition and dismantling
of the original red robot head. My long term anima-
tion companion Joey Ahlbum provided just the right
touch with his hand drawn typography.
It turned out the most complex part of the process

was properly preparing the art for printing with the
variance between the very thin legs with the bulk of
the giant head, but Will Dunnigan proved to be the
patient production head, as always.
Ben Ross: illustration

@benmonstertv
Joey Ahlbum: typography
@joeyahlbum
Offset
24” x 36”

New Year's 2017
.......................................
Joey Ahlbum started making animation with my for-

mer branding partner, Alan Goodman, and me back
in the MTV and Nickelodeon days, and was always
a fun creative colleague dozens of other times over
the years. Joey stepped up for 2017 and adapted a
whimsical Fredbot he illustrated for our Frederator
Books digital publishing company.
Joey Ahlbum: illustration & design

@joeyahlbum
production
@valhalla
Screen print
24” x 36”

Castlevania 2017
.......................................
Kevin Kolde was an experienced animation produc-

tion hand when he joined Eric Homan, Carrie Miller
and me at Frederator in the early 2000s. He was
also a total video game fan. I am not.
Nonetheless, before he came aboard, he'd gone

ahead and started optioning rights to games which
he believed could be excellent material for ani-
mation, lousy feature films notwithstanding. But,
because Castlevania was adult and horror, and I had
specialized in kids' productions, he thought I'd be
uninterested.
Kevin underestimated my total devotion to talent,

and in particular, his talent.
It took a long time, but he brought in graphic novel-

ist Warren Ellis, found a partner in Netflix, and we
were off to the races of achieving his goal of mak-
ing the best video game adaption in history.
Kevin Kolde: executive producer

& showrunner
@kevinkolde
Warren Ellis: writer, creator
& executive producer
@warrenellis
Sam Deats: design & illustration
@samueldeats
Offset
16" x 24"

New Year's 2018
.......................................
Almost an adult, for the 20th Frederator birthday

I asked my recently, allegedly retired friend Drew
Hodges, the storied and richly awarded designer of
Broadway theatrical advertising (Rent, Hamilton,
Chicago, Avenue Q, et cetera), whether he had any
bandwidth for us.
Boy, did he. It was nice that Drew and designer

Hallie Mitchell thought that the world’s most
famous robot possibly had some kind of relationship
with Frederator and our New York Flatiron digs.
Drew Design Co
Drew Hodges: Creative Director
@drew_design_company
Hallie Mitchell: design
@hallie.is.art
production
@valhalla
Screen print
16” x 36”

Castlevania 2018
.......................................
The Castlevania Season 2 digital poster.

& showrunner
@kevinkolde
@warrenellis
Netflix: illustration & design
@netflix
Digital
16" x 24"

Slug Riot 2019
.......................................
To promote the VRV drop of Mike Rosenthal's

moldcore mini-series Slug Riot, executive producer
Carrie Miller's team worked together to do a big
social campaign around his "World Tour."
Mike Rosenthal: creator

Alexandria Batchelor: design
@foxeedesign
Digital
11” x 17”

New Year's 2019
.......................................
I don’t exactly know why I skipped by the Fredbot

originator Arlen Schumer for the 20th birthday, but
I sure wouldn’t goof up again.
Arlen Schumer: illustration & design

@arlenschumer
production
@valhalla
Screen print
24” x 36”

Costume Quest 2019
.......................................
Kevin Kolde had successfully persuaded me that

video games could be adapted as fantastic animated
shows, particularly with his hit series Castlevania at
Netflix.
Next up, our relationship with Tim Shaffer's Double

Fine Productions in San Francisco teed up one of
their games for kids, Costume Quest. Amazon Prime
stepped up as our partner and in 2019, the series
debuted. Everyone loved it, but for some reason,
Amazon made a dumb decision to not go forward
with original kids shows. D'oh!
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
Leonard Hung: title card design
Jisoo Kim: Color
Digital
16" x 24"

Costume Quest 2019
.......................................
Amazon Prime: illustration & design

Digital
15" x 20"

New Year's 2020
.......................................
For what’s turned out to be my last Frederator year,

our in-house New York design director Alexandria
Batchelor was tapped. She wanted to reflect the
totality of our history with everything from cartoons
through our innovative YouTube channels.
Alexandria Batchelor: design

& illustration
@foxeedesign
production
@valhalla
Screen print
24” x 36”

Castlevania 2020
.......................................
The Castlevania Season 3 digital poster.

& showrunner
@kevinkolde
@warrenellis
@netflix
Digital
16" x 24"

Adventure Time: Distant Lands 2020
.......................................
Adventure Time: Distant Lands is the collective

name of four hour-long streaming television
specials that will debut on HBO Max. Two years
after the last series episode, the intrepid gang is
roaring back with more stories from the Land of
Ooo.
I'm always thrilled to see creators from some of

my shorts incubators in subsequent shows, and
Adventure Time is no exception.
Longtime Creative Director Adam Muto (a

Random! Cartoons alumnus) will executive pro-
duce.The writing and storyboard staff will include
Jack Pendarvis, Anthony Burch, Christina Catucci,
Charley Feldman, and Kate Tsang (a GO! Cartoons
creator), Ashlyn Anstee, Iggy Craig, Megan Fish-
er, Hanna K. Nyström, Maya Petersen, Serena Wu
and Jenny Goldberg served as art director for the
specials. And another Random! creator, the talented
animation artist Niki Yang will reprise her acting
role as (among others) the world famous BMO!
June 25, 2020

Digital
12" x 18"

.......................................
June 25, 2020

Digital
12" x 18"

.......................................
November 19, 2020

Digital
12" x 18"

New Year's 2021
.......................................
As I started a new cartoon production company,

FredFilms, I wasn't about to stop publishing limited
edition, annual New Year's posters.
Like every other year, I worked with an artist I

admired. There was sparse direction –two lines of
copy, include a new variant on the original Fredbot–
and go to town. After all, my entire creative career
was based on my fandom of outstanding talent and
following their visions.
As rents have skyrocketed in major art centers, the

quality of so-called "street art" has often escalated
to museum quality. Like with painter Ron Haywood
Jones, who shows on Prince Street in Manhattan's
Soho district. He's always there with a pile of work
and a warm smile, often with a kind question about
the well being of my sons and wife.
Commissioning Ron for FredFilms' debut poster

was a no-brainer, having collected his work for
over 20 years. Certainly his style is always a draw,
but his affinity for pop culture and Black American
politics gave his stuff bite and depth.
Ron Haywood Jones: painting

@ronhaywoodjones
production
@valhalla
Screen print
24” x 36”

Castlevania 2021
.......................................
The fourth and last season of Castlevania dropped

on Netflix Spring 2021.

& showrunner
@kevinkolde
@warrenellis
@netflix
Digital
16" x 24"
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1995-2021
POSTERS
25 YEARS OF
LIMITED EDITION POSTERS
FROM THE CARTOONS OF
AWARD WINNING
INDEPENDENT PRODUCER
FRED SEIBERT
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Maybe it was the handmade poster that some kid

Somehow, I got the poster bug.

'Growing up' to become a media executive I never

The first, by far

BF (Before Frederator), I was the last President of Hanna-Barbera

Modernizing the movie studio one sheets that accompanied classic

The Powerpuff Girls 1995

At 22 years old, Craig McCracken was already

Some depressing focus groups didn't slow down

Craig McCracken: creator

6 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

Genndy Tartakovsky is one of the most admired

Genndy Tartakovsky: creator

8 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

I had a particular soft spot for Pat Ventura. He was

We made two George and Juniors, two Yuckie

Pat Ventura: creator

10 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

All of the new folks at WAC! were honored, and

Joe Barbera: director

12 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

Animator Van Partible was barely out of school

Van Partible: creator

14 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

It's probable that my affection for Pat Ventura, his

Pat Ventura: creator

16 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

The earliest animator to sign up for the What A

Pat Ventura: director

18 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

Bill Hanna was the sharpest comedic director in all

Bill Hanna: creator

20 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

Butch Hartman, Eugene Mattos,

22 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

Dave Feiss' career in animation went back to the

David Feiss: creator

24 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

Eddie Fitzgerald's vision on cartoons in the 90s was

Eddie Fitzgerald: creator

26 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

Buzz Potamkin was my head of production at

And after two years of convincing Ted Turner and

Ralph excited me with his desire to make a jazz mu-

Ralph Bakshi: creator

28 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

The 1996 national board meeting of the American Institute of

Goodbye Hanna-Barbera 1996

Once Ted Turner decided to sell all his Turner

But, after five years of overseeing an unlikely turn-

Fred Seibert: creator

30 ORIGINAL CARTOON POSTERS

Illustrator Arlen Schumer –a collaborator over

Frederator Studios, with assistant Stephanie