Adventure Time with Finn and Jake

I asked Pen to do an email interview about the show, since we hadn’t heard directly from him in a while. As usual, he came back with something even better.  –Fred

I made this interview for http://www.adventuretime.tv and http://www.frederator.com — Man, I don’t know what I’m sayin.

To follow up on some of these ideas.. what I’m trying to do with Adventure Time is create a cartoon that kids are going to have fond memories of after they grow up… and hopefully will be able to go back into and watch again and appreciate it a new way after they grow up.

I’m tryin to make it timeless - - - like peewee’s play house. With jokes that should be funny for adults and kids. When I was muttering about “real characters” What I mean is… when I was a kid I cared about cartoon characters. I cared about Lisa Simpson when she loved her substitute [Read more…]

Art director Nick Jennings’ approval stamp

I love wandering around the Adventure Time studio; you never know what’s going to show up. Today, it was Nick Jennings’, Pat McHale’s, and Pen’s personal approval rubber stamps (and the original artwork).

(Thanks David and Kelly for the original artwork.)

–Fred

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…but Pen’s up on twitter. He likes to sing “Que Sera, Sera.”

–Fred