It’s HERE! A BRAND NEW Adventure Time: Distant Lands BMO Special is now streaming on HBO Max!
Hello all, Frederator Networks is privileged to be part of a vast network of creators of every race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. We’re firmly rooted in the support of creator-driven stories that come from personal, unique, and diverse perspectives. We feel strongly about the injustices that the Black community is faced with. Black lives matter, and we stand with protesters against police brutality and the systemic racism that causes and enables it.
All of us at Frederator have been having constant internal conversations educating one another, staying informed, and most importantly, planning how we can do more and do better.
We’ve decided that one of the ways is by making a donation to the nonprofit civil rights advocacy organization, Color of Change. We strongly believe in their mission to free all people from racism and injustice. This group is only one of many worthy organizations doing important work to create lasting change and equity for Black people in America, and we encourage you to continue to stay informed and get involved however you can.
To our Black network members, animators, employees, and fans - we support you, we love you, and we will continue to help you create lasting change in the world. Sincerely, Fred
Let me rant for a minute.* There’s really no other company like Frederator. We’re special. Arrogant?
Sure.
Of course, being remarkable is all about you.“Frederator loves you” has been more than just a slogan around here. It’s been a battle cry that expresses exactly why I started the company.
“You.” First and foremost it’s our audiences, whether they’re the kids that watched our stuff on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, or the still-kids who grew up and watch us on Cartoon Hangover, Get in the Robot or Netflix.
“You.” All the folks that work in and around Frederator across the globe, making cartoons and videos and channels, figuring out the best way to show them off to people.
And “you.” The world class creators –mostly first timers– we’ve been lucky enough to have in our corner.
I think it’s fair to say that without “you” there wouldn’t be an “us.” From my perspective we’re all one big bunch, loving the same things, everyone playing their own roles. I don’t think anyone at Frederator would have it any other way.
It’s just too much fun making the world smile.
Frederator loves you all, Fred Seibert
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From the postcard back:
Congratulations! You are one of 300 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!
Frederator Loves You
Illustration from Volk Corporation, Pleasantville, NY USA Clip Book of LIne Art No.292 MEN
Series 48.8 [mailed out February 14, 2020]
Happy New Year 2020 from Frederator!
Illustration & Design by Alexandria Batchelor
Prints by Valhalla Studios
A limited edition New Year poster from Frederator
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Frederator Loves You! Happy New Year! 2020
FREDERATOR NETWORKS Burbank • New York • Toronto • Vancouver
Átomo Network, Cartoon Hangover, Channel Frederator Network, Channel Frederator, Fredbot, Frederator Books, Frederator Digital, Frederator Studios, Get in the Robot, The Leaderboard
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Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998) The Fairly OddParents (2001) ChalkZone (2002) My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003) Nicktoons Film Festival (2004) Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (2006) Channel Frederator (2007) Fanboy & Chum Chum (2009) Ape Escape (2009) Adventure Time (2010) Cartoon Hangover (2011) Bravest Warriors (2012) SuperF*ckers (2012) Too Cool! Cartoons (2013) Bee and PuppyCat (2013) The Leaderboard (2015) Super Science Friends (2015) Cinematica (2015) Castlevania (2017) GO! Cartoons (2017) Slug Riot (2018) (Not) Hero (2018) Chris P. Duck (2018) Get in the Robot (2018) Costume Quest (2019)
Hatch Show Print made a bunch of posters for Frederator right at the beginning and we’ve never forgotten them.
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From the postcard back:
Frederator loves you
Congratulations! You are one of 300 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!
Amazon COSTUME QUEST Netflix CASTLEVANIA Cartoon Hangover BEE AND PUPPYCAT, BRAVEST WARRIORS , GO! CARTOONS, TOO COOL! CARTOONS Cartoon Network ADVENTURE TIME Nickelodeon FAIRLY ODDPARENTS, FANBOY & CHUM CHUM, CHALKZONE, MY LIFE AS A TEENAGE ROBOT, OH YEAH! CARTOONS, RANDOM! CARTOONS
Homage to Hatch Show Print Nashville, Tennesee
Series 48.4 [mailed out December 17, 2019]
Look, first of all, Bee and PuppyCat is a fantastic show, yes?
Second, Natasha Allegri and her creative team have created a new PuppyCat series called Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space.
Then, Lazy in Space won Best Animated Series at the Ottawa Animation Festival.
If that wasn’t enough, Natasha and Efrain Farias made some gorgeous title cards for each of the new episodes, perfectly adaptable to other formats.
So, all of it was enough that we had to keep making limited edition Frederator postcards for Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space. We can’t help ourselves.
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From the postcard back:
Congratulations! You are one of 300 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!
FESTIVAL WINNER! Best Animated Series 2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival
A new series Bee and PuppyCat Lazy in Space
Created by Natasha Allegri
Series 47.3 [mailed out December 13, 2019]
For the past several years, Natasha, her creative team, Kevin Kolde, Eric Homan, and Kelsey Calaitges at Frederator Studios, and everyone at OLM Tokyo, have been quietly working on a brand new PuppyCat series called Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space. Animation insiders got a first look at a full episode at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September, the reaction was overwhelming, and the show was named Best Animated Series. Worth a Frederator limited edition postcard, yes?
Get ready: there’s NEW ADVENTURE TIME coming next year! ✨ Adventure Time: Distant Lands -> HBO Max in 2020
4 new one-hour specials:
"BMO" ➡️ follows the show’s lovable robot
"Obsidian" ➡️ features Marceline & Princess Bubblegum as they journey to the imposing, beautiful Glass Kingdom to prevent an earthshaking catastrophe
"Wizard City" ➡️ follows Peppermint Butler, starting over at the beginning, as just another inexperienced Wizard School student, who must master the mystic arts in time to prove his innocence on campus
"Together Again" ➡️ brings Finn and Jake together again, to rediscover their brotherly bond and embark on the most important adventure of their lives
The Frederator Archives Library
One of the wonderful side benefits of being in a visual medium is the partial archive that we’re able to compile over time, with special emphasis on Natasha Allegri’s Bee and PuppyCat, Butch Hartman’s The Fairly OddParents, and Pendleton Ward’s Bravest Warriors and Adventure Time. And in a digitized world, paper ephemera has become more and more rare. Over the past several years Frederator has been compiling themed books from our cartoon and channel repositories to share with our hardcore fans.
A couple of notes of note: Most of the books in the library are full color and printed at Amazon’s on-demand service. There’s no economies of scale, as in traditional printing, so you’ll find certain of the pricing pretty expensive. When available, I’ve also included links to downloadable PDFs for a quick advance read.
Original Cartoons, Vol.1: The Frederator Studios Postcards 1998-2005
Our first book is a collection of our first five full size, limited edition postcards featuring all the Oh Yeah! Cartoons, including the world’s first look at images from Butch Hartman’s The Fairly OddParents, Bill Burnett’s & Larry Huber’s ChalkZone, and Rob Renzetti’s My Life as a Teenage Robot. Plus a look at the Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network posters from What A Cartoon! including Dexter’s Laboratory, Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo and The Powerpuff Girls; an AWN interview with moi, and an essay by graphic design historian Steven Heller.
Original Cartoons, Volume 2: The Frederator Studios Postcards 2006 - 2010
Series 6 through 9 include all the Random! Cartoons cards, with the world’s first looks at Pendleton Ward’s Adventure Time and Eric Robles’ Fanboy (but without Chum Chum). And an entire series of beautiful Frederator series title cards.
The MLaaTR Sketchbook: By the artists from My Life as a Teenage Robot
I like this book so much I can’t believe we haven’t made one for every Frederator series. Creator Rob Renzetti and Art Director Alex Kirwan oversaw a crew of dozens of world class artists at My Life as a Teenage Robot. We curated their best pencil sketches into this compendium that should be on every aspiring artist’s bookshelf.
I’ve been collecting posters for a long time, and producing original ones for almost as long. This poster archive book features our (almost) annual Frederator New Years set, and promotional posters from some our best shows. And there’s the added bonus of a handful of fan art posters for Adventure Time.
Frederator executive Eric Homan was getting such a kick from the first sets of Adventure Time storyboards that he started collecting the best at our Flickr archive. He selected the very best and the very funniest into this Wit and Wisdom.
Frederator loves title cards. We’re one of the only cartoon studios in the 21st century still using them for almost every episode we’ve ever produced. So why not show off our best from The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot and Adventure Time? And more!
The Declaration of Cartoon Independents: The Channel Frederator Network & Cartoon Hangover: Selected Postcards 2008-2015
As Frederator dropped its own media channels like Channel Frederator and Cartoon Hangover, our postcard collections told stories about our fans as much as about our cartoons and their creators. More than 120 full color postcard illustrations our online animation network. Over the past 10 years, Channel Frederator’s become the world’s biggest animation network, built, film by film, by thousands of animators across the globe. Each of the creators completely controls their own channel, makes all their own decisions. There are no filters, no gatekeepers, no barriers to the expressions of these intrepid souls. Just the raw, direct, and often sophisticated moving picture expressions of the characters they love, the worlds they inhabit, and the stories they tell.
Original Cartoon Shorts: From Frederator Studios: Selected Postcards 1998-2015
Short cartoons have been the lifeblood of animation for almost 100 years, and the talent that creates them have been Frederator’s vital spark for over two decades. And for almost as long, the studio has been releasing limited edition postcards honoring their creators, like Butch Hartman’s The Fairly OddParents, Natasha Allegri’s Bee & PuppyCat, and Pendleton Ward’s Adventure Time and Bravest Warriors.
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The Best of Frederator. Adventure Time (Cartoon Network), Castlevania (Netflix), The Fairly OddParents (Nickelodeon), Bravest Warriors (Cartoon Hangover) and Bee and PuppyCat (Cartoon Hangover) are only a few shows featured in this “best of,” with 513 color illustrations and 246 pages. Together we stand for independent artists. Frederator loves you!
Adventure Time Nominated for Final Emmy
Congratulations to the entire Adventure Time cast and crew on today’s Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Animated Program. The representing episode is the series finale, “Come Along with Me.” Trophies will be handed out in Los Angeles on September 22. Good luck!
Title card designed by Tom Herpich, painted by Joy Ang.
Congrats to CalArts Character Animation alum Elizabeth Ito, creator and showrunner of “City of Ghosts,” a new show being made at Netflix!
Adventure Time Alum Makes Good (And Good Cartoons)
Congratulations, Elizabeth!
You must have your own favorite line. Ours? “I bet you wish you were my butt.” Always take the high road, friends.
Thanks, David Augustad. This is too nostalgically and entertainingly wonderful.
Written & boarded by Adam Muto, Pete Browngardt, & Bert Youn, "Wizard" premiered on Cartoon Network on May 10, 2010.
With “Slumber Party Panic” and “Trouble in Lumpy Space,” Cartoon Network premiered Adventure Time on April 5, 2010. Happy 9th, Finn & Jake!
Happy anniversary, Adventure Time!
✨✨✨Birthday hugs for this man✨✨✨
Happy Valentine's Day.
Title card designed by Andy Ristaino, painted by Martin Ansolabehere.
I’M...BEING...BORN!
"The Silent King," written and storyboarded by Jesse Moynihan and Cole Sanchez, premiered on February 7, 2011, on Cartoon Network. Andy Ristaino and Nick Jennings made the title card.