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That’s right folks! This is your chance to participate in the Second Annual Channel Frederator Awards.
We’re looking to get your input and feedback for our episodes. So upload a clip, send us an e-mail or call the Channel Frederator hotline at 888-414-8148. Tell us your thoughts on:

Your favorite nominees
Why Cartoons?
Who should be Cartoonist of the Year and why?
or
Just give us a shout and tell us you’re excited for the awards!

We want to make sure that our viewers, the most important aspect of the Channel Frederator Awards, get heard! - Carrie

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Artwork by Joanna Davidovich

Essay by Amid Amidi

Why Cartoons?

Tex Avery. Chuck Jones. Bob Clampett. John Hubley. Bobe Cannon. Frank Tashlin. Friz Freleng. Bob McKimson. Emile Cohl. Winsor McCay. Ward Kimball. Jack Kinney. Hugh Harman. Rudolf Ising. Max Fleischer. Lotte Reiniger. Bill Hanna. Joe Barbera. Willis O’Brien. Otto Messmer. Walt Disney. Ray Harryhausen. Ub Iwerks.

Why Cartoons?

Karel Zeman. Bretislav Pojar. Jiri Trnka. George Pal. Walerian Borowczyk. Osamu Tezuka. Bob Godfrey. George Dunning. Alexandre Alexeieff. Claire Parker. Stan Brakhage. John Whitney. Jan Lenica. Witold Giersz. Terry Gilliam. Vladimir Kristl. Lou Bunin. Dusan Vukotic. Boris Kolar. Fyodor Khitruk. Peter Sachs. Richard Williams. Yoji Kuri. Stan VanDerBeek. Ralph Bakshi. Gene Deitch. Len Glasser. Luzzati & Gianini. Norman McLaren. John Korty. Kihachiro Kawamoto. Ladislas Starewicz. Ryan Larkin. Ernest Pintoff. Fred Crippen. Jan Svankmajer. Len Lye. Hy Hirsh. Frederick Back. Oskar Fischinger. Jay Ward. Peter Foldes.

Why Cartoons?

Bruce Bickford. Brad Bird. Trey Parker. Matt Stone. John Lasseter. Smith & [Read more…]

I wanted to start off this section of Art and Essays from teammates from Team Frederator, with my art piece for the Awards Booklet. Kicking things off, so to speak. -Jeaux

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Who is the 2008 cartoonist of the year?

We would love to tell you the answer to that intriguing question… But quite frankly, we aren’t sure yet. At Channel Frederator, we are posing that very question to you, the viewers, because you make Channel Frederator what it is.

So please, rack your brains and think of a cartoonist that has made an impact on your cartoon watching experience… Send us your input, your ideas, and any or all of your choices for the 2008 cartoonist of the year… And your pick just may be awarded the prestigious Channel Frederator Award.

Let the brain-racking begin.

-Angie

I’m going to be spreading some essays and art like pollen around the flower field that are the new Fredblogs for the next few days. I thought it would be fitting to start with Team Frederator, starting with the head honcho: Fred Seibert.
Take it away Fred!

Fred Seibert
Cartoons have always made me happy. Gee, I think they make everyone happy.

Crusader Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tom Terrific, Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Pinocchio,  Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead, Adventure Time, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Everyone has their own list, but it all adds up to happiness, doesn’t it? I mean, why cartoons? What other choice do we have?

Eric Homan
Why Cartoons? Because I’ve got a disbelief demanding to be willingly suspended.
When I was a kid, my whole world (i.e. whatever spewed out of the boob tube) was one big cartoonish stew of unreality, but [Read more…]

Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our Last Category is #11, aka the Bad Ass Bunny Award!

They’re just a bunch of bunnies!

(they’re cute, they’re cute),

Na na na na, na na

But they’re coming to get you

(cause they’re badass, too)

Bair nair NAIR

So you’d better watch out!

(did you hear what we sang?)

Wahh, dahb, d-d-d-DOOOO!!!

Cause they’re coming to get YOOOOOUU!!!

(fly like the wind)

Cha-cha-cha.

Hot Cross Bunnies Submitted by http://www.kikutowne.com/ GoogleElizabeth Ito
One day, I predict that Elizabeth Ito will be designing toys we toy nerds and little kids alike will all want.
I’m not sure if it will be the bunnies from HCB, or another variant version of her character Mister Monster…
Either way, her bunnies are [Read more…]

Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our tenth Category is The Kiwi Award!

Yeah, yeah, we know. We could’ve incorporated the Kiwi Award (your favorite film from New Zealand) into the Best International category. But it turns out, during the past year, we received a disproportionately high number of terrific films from the Middle Earth. Why is that? Beats us. Maybe it has something to do with all that Pav and Anzac biscuits.

Dominate Wax Submitted by Flux Animation Studio
Watch the short that made 2 Channel Frederator employees blush and that Fred dared to show!
Dominate Wax is a fun, little, dirty sex-romp of a viral short that was passed around the world.

Sparkle [Read more…]

Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our Ninth Category is The So Cute It Hurts Award!

We weceived hundweds of submissions duwing 2007, many of which we categowize as absowutewy adowabaw.
We hope you feew the same way, too, as we pwesent to you the cutest of the cutest, the most wovabaw cawtoons of 2007. And wemembew, Channew Fwedewatow Woves You.
(I can do impressions. That was my patented “Barbara Streisand meets Tweety Bird” impression. I’m available for children parties and Old Folks Home Soiree events.)

Bobble & Squeak Submitted by Choom Lam
Choom presents us with a short, simple, cute well designed tale about a monster and his little dog friend-monster.

CuddleBee Hugs’n’Such Submitted by Adrian [Read more…]

Welcome stranger!
I reckon you just stumbled into the Channel Frederator Awards Nominee and Category Corral.

This here’s the rootin, tootinest spot to view them little critters runnin around and brandin em with yer vote!
We’re gonna be a bloggin it up with a blogpost a day fer each Category!!! Yee-HAW!

Our 8th Category is the SixSixSix Award.

Of all the vile, degrading, and deplorable cartoons we’ve received since the last Channel Frederator Awards, our panel of experts in disgust deemed these three films the most barfbag-worthy.

We hope you’re all truly offended.

How Can I Say No to Sex at School? Submitted by Dave Carter
Hey Kids! Say No to sex and God loves you!

Slaughterween Submitted by Rory Cooke
A lonely misunderstood school boy sets out to impress his class on Halloween.

Respire, Mon Ami Submitted by Chris Nabholz
Set in France, a lonely child finds companionship in a friend who tags along on a series of small adventures that take you though [Read more…]