Fanboy and Chum Chum

Octavio Rodriguez

Fanboy’s lucky to have Octavio Rodriguez as a storyboard artist. Besides boarding on shows including The Mighty B!, SpongeBob, and Johnny Bravo, Octavio’s publishing Plat & Dave, “the intergalactic space adventures of bounty hunters for hire, brothers who happen to be Platypuses.”

Frederator: What was your favorite cartoon growing up?

Octavio: Disney’s Gummi Bears… just kidding. Robotech, I love the idea of episodic plots.

Frederator: What’s your schooling background?

Octavio: Bio major in my first two years of college, then switched to computer programming. At that time I was a PC consultant at 21 for the city of Glendale. I always drew so I finally gave in to the itch and switched my major to Fine Arts at CSUF (they were just starting a animation program)

Frederator: Tell us about Plat & Dave.

Octavio: Plat and Dave was an idea from one of the several projects that I created way back when, which lent itself better as a comic. It’s the first of three limited editions comic books I plan to put out this year.

Frederator: What is one thing you’ve learned along the road to get where you are that you would share with anyone?

Octavio: Networking. You can be an amazing artist but if you don’t put yourself out there, most likely they may never see your work.

Frederator: If you could go back and meet any artist, living or not, who would you meet?

Octavio: Nicolai Fechin.

Frederator: What excited you about working on Fanboy & Chum Chum in particular?

Octavio: I loved the look of the show and I wanted to see how it would translate in 3D. From what I’ve seen it works!

Thanks for the time, Octavio.

(Thanks to Angie Polk for the interview work.)

– Eric (Homan)