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“I’m Catbug!”

“Everything is OK!”

“You’re my friends now. We’re having soft tacos later.”

“Throw a blanket over it!” 

“Sugar Peas!”

“Throw a blanket over it!”

“My name is Catbug. What’s yours?” 

Another limited edition postcard from Frederator.

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From the postcard back:

Congratulations! You are one of 300 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!

www.frederator.com

I’m Catbug Everything is OK Catbug created by Breehn Burns

TikTok 152 million YouTube 26 million Giphy 200 million Likes 400,000

Photograph of Catbug by World of 3A

Series 47.5 [mailed February 21, 2020]

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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

   * Adapted from the introduction to “Frederator Loves You: Best of Frederator: Original Adventures in Cartoons, TV and Streaming 1998-2018”

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From the postcard back:

Congratulations! You are one of 300 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!

www.frederator.com

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]

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What’s New Catbug? 

Quite a lot from Frederator, as you’ll see from the Deadline Hollywood article below. And enough to demand a new limited edition postcard. 

Deadline Hollywood: December 3, 2019 6:00am ‘Catbug’ Animated Series In The Works From ‘Adventure Time’ Producer Frederator Studios By Dade Hayes

The company has begun shopping a Catbug series to streaming and linear networks, planning to supplement it with a social networking plan, short-form animated videos, e-books and web comics.

The title character was created by Breehn Burns and featured in the Frederator digital series Bravest Warriors, which is run by Burns. More than 25 million views and 400,000 likes have been recorded on Bravest Warriors videos starring Catbug. On TikTok, the character has garnered 135 million views, while GIFs on Giphy.com featuring Catbug have racked up 200 million loops.

In addition to Adventure Time for Cartoon Network, Frederator’s credits include Castlevania for Netflix and Bee & Puppycat for YouTube channel Cartoon Hangover. The studio was founded by Fred Seibert, an animation specialist whose early career was marked by pioneering executive posts at MTV and Nickelodeon as both networks emerged as major pop-culture forces.

(More here…)

From the postcard back:

Congratulations! You are one of 300 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!

www.frederator.com

What’s New Catbug? Catbug created by Breehn Burns

Illustration from Volk Corporation, Pleasantville, NJ USA

Series 47.4 [mailed out January 31, 2020]

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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)

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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!

www.frederator.com

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]

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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!

www.frederator.com www.FrederatorStudios.com

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]

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Natasha and Efrain Farias have done such a beautiful job on Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space title cards that I couldn’t resist turning a couple more into limited edition Frederator postcards. -Fred

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From the postcard back:

Congratulations! You are one of 300 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard!

www.frederator.com www.FrederatorStudios.com

FESTIVAL WINNER! Best Animated Series 2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival

A new series Bee and PuppyCat Lazy in Space

Created by Natasha Allegri

Series 47.2 [mailed out November 27, 2019]

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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? 

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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.

Amazon paperback 256 pages $7.99     PDF

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. 

Amazon paperback 158 pgs $29.95 (used from $5)     PDF

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. 

Amazon paperback 122 pgs. $9.99      PDF

Original Cartoon Posters: From Frederator Studios 

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. 

Amazon paperback 122 pgs. $24.95     PDF

Wit and Wisdom in the Land of Ooo:                                                          Great Quotations from 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. 

Amazon paperback 264 pgs. $10.00     PDF

Original Cartoon Title Cards: From Frederator Studios 

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! 

Amazon paperback 156 pgs. $30 

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.        

Amazon 194 pgs. $39.95 (used from $12)

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. 

Amazon 212 pgs. $39.95 (used from $12)

Frederator Loves You: Best of Frederator:                                             Original Adventures in Cartoons, TV and Streaming 1998-2018  

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! 

Amazon 246 pgs. $39.95     PDF

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From “Puppetyville Horror,” S2 Ep6 of Bravest Warriors.

Written by: Jhonen Vasquez

Directed by: Breehn Burns

Creative Consultant Jason Johnson

Creative Director: James Burks

Storyboard by: Kris Wimberly, Christofer Graham

Timing Supervisor: Larry Huber

Sheet Timing: Woody Yocum

Character Designers: Jenny Goldberg, Phil Rynda, Bob Flynn

Prop/EFX Design and Clean Up: Jojo Baptista

Background Design: Derek Hunter, Steven Sugar, Joe McGrory, Jojo Baptista

Background Painter: Mira Lark Crowell

Color Stylist: Mira Lark Crowell, Amanda Rynda

Storyboard Revisions: Casey Crowe, James Burks

“This better not be a pee thing.”

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Happy Valentine’s Day (but watch your back).

Happy Valentine’s Day.

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Gas-powered stick never runs out of gas!

This goes back a bit, but thanks to Jason Johnson for sending over this clip of Sam Lavagnino recording his first Catbug lines for Bravest Warriors.

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Perfectly odd entertainment for perfect people. 

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We woke up this Wednesday morning to a new Bee and PuppyCat animatic from Natasha and Pretty Patrick.

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Look at this watercolor painting of Cass! It's so adorable. We love that you love her so much, Trisha!  Thank you for sharing your piece with us! #FanartFriday 

Do you have any fanart you want us to see? It could be from any of cartoons! Submit your pieces here: http://cartoonhangover.com/submit-art/

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A new series, Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space, is coming this year! 🎣

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You see the dog with the arm too, right?