Woodstock Manor features John Byner!

The next animated cartoon in the Kustomonsters and Friends cannon is a short film called Woodstock Manor. It features the vocal talents of the legendary John Byner and his daughter Sandi Byner. Recording and the animatics are complete, and design and animation are next. This cartoon will appear in a future Kustomonsters and Friends episode so look out for it on www.cheekypress.com and www.pinkslipanimation.com. Crazy Man!

New Didi Pop videos!

Hot off the presses are two new Didi Pop kids videos I directed. Thanks to cameraman Andy Wolf and Quinn Ljoka of Pink Slip Animation! Please visit www.didipop.com to pick up her CD for the kid in all of us!



And if you missed my first one with over 300k views so far...

Zula Patrol Comics

I had fun last year working on a couple of Zula Patrol comicboks in Flash. I've never used flash before to do comics, but I recommend it if you can. The NBC TV show is actually in 3D.

Sylvester Nine Lives Dry Catfood

Here's two classic commerciaIs featuring the Looney Tunes' Sylvester that I worked on many moons ago at Duck Soup Produckions!




Direction- Duane Crowther
Layout - Corny Cole
Animation - Amby Palowoda, Jeff Howard
BG's - Toby Bluth
Anim Assist- Craig Clark (skateboarding in from the beach circa 1980)...

Pink Slip TV on YouTube

Enjoy Pink Slip TV on YouTube as we build our Pink Slip website.

Kustomonsters and Friends -Episode 1

Hot off the presses! Here's The Kustomonsters and Friends Episode 1 for your enjoyment. Written, animated and directed by myself, with a few scenes by Kwesi Kennedy and Matt Siditsky.
-Crazy Man!

The Kustomonsters are coming soon

What does El Chupacabra see approaching? Why it's The Kustomonsters 8 minute debut short for the upcoming Kustomonsters and Friends web series. Coming soon from Cheeky Entertainment in association with Pink Slip Animation.

Pink Slip Animation

I have just joined the animation Co-op Pink Slip Animation in the attempt to aid in production of the Kustomonsters and Friends.

This a new Facebook based Co-op that aims to promote artists, writers and directors working on each others projects with the eventual aim of creating a new studio such as U.P.A. or United Artists. Plan to see another Kustomonsters 10 minute installment by the end of the summer, and more frequency hence forth. And also plan to see more Pink Slip based productions in the near future.
-Crazy Man!

Kustomonsters and Friends Player

Enjoy the Kustomonsters and Friends and other Kreepy Kool Kartoons!

Astrothrill

Here's the Astrothrill animated short film from 2004 in it's complete form. It was written, animated and directed by myself, Craig Clark, and features voice work by Rene Estevez, Brandi Young, William Barker, and David Teague. Also featured is music by Fu Manchu, The Bell Rays and Gwen Mars! You can get the comicbook/CD/DVD set from www.cheekypress.com. Enjoy!

Kustomonsters and Friends Update

Never fear goblins and ghouls! More Kustomonsters and Friends webisodes are planned. They’ll be bundled as a mini-series, and will include Monsters, music, cartoons, and fun. Stay tooned!




Crazy Man!

Amby Paliwoda

One of my early animation mentors at Duck Soup in the late 70's was 25 year Disney Veteran Amby Paliwoda. I used to be his assistant on many Kellogg's cereal commercials including the short lived product, "Banana Frosted Flakes". Among his many assignments were to animate the characters "Jasper" and "Horace", who were the henchmen of the female villain, "Cruella de Vil", in the animated feature film, "One Hundred and One Dalmatians". For his lifetime of work in the animation field, Paliwoda received the Animation Guild's Golden Award in 1985. Here is a Disney animation drawing of his from the 50's. Can you guess which production this was from?

Corny Cole looses his house in Recent Fire

Animation legend and one of my original animation mentors, Corny Cole has lost his house, his life's art work, 16 cats and two dogs in a recent brushfire in Lakeview Terrace.
Corny Cole TV news report


Donations can be sent to this Pay Pal account.
Corny Cole PayPal Fund


And also Cal Arts has set up a fund to help as well. You can make a check payable to Cornelius Cole and mail it to:

California Institute of the Arts
ATT: Trish Patryla, Office of the Provost
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355

Ralph Bakshi Tells it like it is!

Just get out there and do it! The production studio is in a box on your desk, distributors are waiting.
That's what I'm talking about!

Uli's Party at Tangier's in Hollywood

Jamie Bolio recently threw a reunion party for animation Director Uli Meyer at the Tangier Restaurant in Los Feliz, CA. Unfortunately, Uli could not make it from London to Los Angeles, but that did not stop the fun. This was also a reunion for the Pre-Amblimation "Roger Rabbit" crew as well as the "Fievel Goes West" Amblimation crew from London. Most of these folks, about 150 of them have at one time been folded into Dreamworks Animation. After 18 years, when I was an Amblimaion fx animator in London, it was great seeing all those talented folks again! Here's to you Uli, and good luck on your new feature film! And thanks to Jamie Bolio for organizing this event!


Craig Clark, Simon Wells, Phill Neblink, Joe and Steve.










Raul Garcia and Debbie Forster.




























Party organizer Jamie Bolio with Daniel Jeanette.

Kustomonsters and Friends Net TV-Episode 6

Add The Kustomonsters and Friends's channel to your page

R.I.P. Vampira

The first REAL TV Horror Host has died. Vampira aka Maila Numri is gone.


More here

The Kustomonsters check out Drag Racer 3

PLAY DRAG RACER V3

Ty Girlz Cartoon

Here's a new Ty Girlz cartoon I did over at Animax Entertainment for Tygirlz.com. I wrote and animated the clip with animation assistance from lovely Vanessa Lindstrom, who also did all the voice work and singing.
Lets Go! Lets Go!

Inside UPA

Tee Busustow, son of former UPA head the late Steve Busustow and Amid Amidi have published a new must have animation book, "Inside UPA". UPA animation flows through my artistic influences as both mentors Duane Crowther and Grim "Betty Boop" Natwick were UPA NY veterans who gave me some of my first animation pointers and lessons at age 14. The book is getting some rather glowing reviews like the following...

Chris Robinson, director of the Ottawa International Animation festival says....

“UPA were the Beats of animation. Like Kerouac,
Burroughs, Ginsberg and company, UPA rejected and
ignored the so-called rules of their art form and
created something fresh, mature, modern, and personal.
UPA was a haven for artists and thinkers, and just by
glancing through the marvelous collection of photos in
“Inside UPA”, it must have been a hell of an inspiring
and fun place to work. We need more studios like UPA,
and we need more books like this to celebrate the ball
breakers, ass kickers and risk takerswho came before
us”.

That's a good enough plug for me, AND Mummy DaddyO. Kool finger snaps all around!
Get your UPA book here

Proceeds will help fund the UPA documentary, "UPA: Mavericks, Magic & Magoo"produced by Tee Busustow, who was kind enough to interview me on his "Toon In to the World of Animation" podcast