Oviroo (on flickr) asks: ”What is the deal with these Frederator postcards? There appears to be a bunch of them dating back to 1998, and I guess you give them out to people?”
It all started with What A Cartoon! in the mid-90s. I was the running the world famous Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio and wanted to build our reputation as a home where animators could actually create cartoons —as opposed to just drawing what they were told by the writers— just the way it was done with theatrical shorts in the earlier part of the 20th century. And I thought we should honor the artists and cartoons with one sheet posters, again, the same as feature cartoons. So, that’s what we did.
A few years later, when we continued our big ideas incubator —Oh Yeah! Cartoons— at Nickelodeon I was on my own as an independent producer and continuing the poster tradition was beyond our budget. So, we started up with limited edition postcards instead, giving each of the creators a few hundred cards to send to family, friends, and influentials. I threw in a few non-cartoon cards about Frederator, and a new institution began.
Series 4.4, 2003; Designed & written by AdamsMorioka, Beverly Hills, California
It’s usually about five years between our shorts shows and somewhere around 2004 I began to miss the cards; they were a lot of fun. We asked our friends Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka to please come up with a random set of cool designs and ever since I try to get out series with semi regularity.
Right now, it’s been 14 years of Frederator postcards, and we’re sending out Series 18, with strictly cartoon sets added in for Random! Cartoons, and soon, Cartoon Hangover. The editions are usually 200 to 300 (with up to 500 when they’re for original cartoon creators) and we try to get them out weekly during a given series (though I’m often a little too flakey to remember).
For collectors and fans we’ve published two books (so far) of our complete sets of cards up through 2010.
Questions?
![Our in-house American history consultant, Carrie Miller, reminds us that yesterday was Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
…..From the postcard back: Congratulations! You are one of 200 people to receive this limited edition Frederator postcard! www.frederator.com www.channelfrederator.com Mash up with an Abraham Lincoln photograph used on the United States $5 currency Photograph by Anthony Berger February 9, 1864, Washington DC Courtesy of the Library of Congress www.loc.gov Series 18.3, mailed February 13, 2012
©2012, FS Holdings 2005, Inc. All rights reserved.…..
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Mash up with an Abraham Lincoln photograph for a vintage 5 dollar bill Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President. Seated portrait, facing right] (LOC) Berger, Anthony, b. 1832, photographer. [Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President. Seated portrait, facing right] [Washington, D.C. : 1864 Feb. 9] 1 negative : glass, wet collodion ; 8 x 7 3/4 in. Notes: An image from this sitting was the basis for the engraved portrait on the five dollar bill. Published in Lincoln’s photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 176. Title devised by Library staff. Gift, Louis Rabinowitz, 1952. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham,—1809-1865. United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865. Format: Portrait photographs—1860-1870. Glass negatives—1860-1870. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19470 Call Number: LC-B8175- 3-X](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzc6o9dKI81qbr6kxo1_500.jpg)
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