Original cartoons since 1998. Postcards, Series 5.

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Postcards, Series 5.

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HA! Postcards, Series 5.

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How to draw "The Fairly Oddparents." Postcards, Series 5.

Everyone seems to love these cards adapted from the art departments' style guides.

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Record labels. Postcards, Series 5.

I've gotten more comments on these postcards than anything else we've ever sent out.

Bang and Red Bird were leading independent pop labels in the 60s, both owned by among the most legendary figures in the mid-20th century record biz. Bang Records was started by Bert Berns and Atlantic Records' Ahmet and Neshui Ertegun, and Gerald (Jerry) Wexler; the name came from the first letters of their first name. Today the label's best known for being the first solo home of Van Morrison (Brown Eyed Girl & TB Sheets), Neil Diamond (Cherry, Cherry & Kentucky Woman), and great hits by the McCoys (Hang on Sloopy). Red Bird Records was the short-lived indie formed by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and George Goldner and the spiritual home of the girl groups (like The Dixie Cups & The Shangri-Las).

Vocalion Records first showed up in 1920 and is well known for 78s by Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and most of Robert Johnson's legacy.

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Tuesday in USA Today.

There was a big article on Nickelodeon's cartoons in Tuesday's USA Today. Modestly, here's the section where I was quoted.

'The [Nickelodeon Animation Studio] reinforces a "creator-driven" program strategy of cultivating animators, as those in supporting positions on one show might later create and produce another.

Butch Hartman (OddParents and Danny Phantom) and Rob Renzetti (Teenage Robot) plied their craft on Fred Seibert's Oh Yeah! Cartoons.

"All that wonderful and successful work begets more of it," says Seibert, who also oversees the Nicktoons festival.

The cartoon veteran credits other networks and studios, too, for contributing to an animation renaissance but says Nickelodeon is in the vanguard: "Without Nick, there wouldn't be this new golden age."'

New postcards, Series 5.

October 2004

We've become so addicted to our postcards series that we start feeling withdrawal pains if we aren't mailing out new ones.

So with these reminders to vote in the upcoming election, Frederator Studios officially inaugurates our Series 5 cards, 75 in all, to be sent out over the next year or so. As has become our custom, each card will have editions limited to 200.

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