Channel Frederator Blog

Three episodes of David Fremont’s Glue are now up on YouTube. Glue was an early Flash web series that was produced by Wild Brain during the heady heights of the dot com frenzy.

This blog post from the creator discusses how the series came about.

It’s jam-packed with quite the line-up of crazy characters and a stream-of-consciousness plot executed in Fremont’s trademark funk-patchwork style. Oh…it’s hard to explain…go see it for yourself!

“…I get an abundance of ideas and get anxious to use them all. whatever popped in my head that day ended up in glue. I was kind of like a kid in a puddle of mud making soup; leaves, sticks, an owl’s hairball, all of it went in the bucket. a transvestite troll! an albino frog! yeah, wouldn’t it be funny if ted nugent was in it? and carpet cleaning…”

I hope they post them all, because I’d love to start at the beginning and see how the series evolved. Keep track of what’s up on the Wild Brain YouTube page.

I’m a longtime fan of Fremont’s work, back to the days when he did mostly illustration and comics and designed the board game “Land O Sugar” for Scary Hairy toys–I still have it!

More about Scary Hairy after the jump…

(Scary Hairy was an amazing little store in San Francisco run by Flower Frankenstein and Bruce Hilvitz back in the 1980s. They made toys in collaboration with many artists including Dan Clowes. They could silkscreen like no one’s business!

Flower’s current project is Bikinikat. Hilvitz now lives in Colorado and runs a printing/graphics company called Ink and Design. You can read the story of his very interesting career and personal journey here.)

—Anne D. Bernstein