Original Cartoon Title Cards: Presented by Eric Homan & Fred Seibert
Original Cartoon Title Cards: Presented by Eric Homan & Fred Seibert
Original Cartoon Title Cards: Presented by Eric Homan & Fred Seibert
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.
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.”
Fred Seibert
Stockbridge, Massachusetts 2020
From "Mind the Kitty" Created by Anne Walker for Random! Cartoons
6 Original Cartoon Title Cards
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
What A Cartoon!
Cartoon Network 1995-1998
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From "Thom Cat"
Created by Mike Gray
for Random! Cartoons
246 Original Cartoon Title Cards