Thom Cat

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I am honored to be the October “Cartoonist in Residence” at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco this coming Saturday, October 11, from 1pm to 3pm! I am excited at the opportunity to promote “Thom Cat” and the “Infinite Goliath,” to show the cartoons at the museum, and to talk about my work with the Museum patrons! If you have never been there, I highly recommend that you go, the Museum has a fantastic permanent art collection along with terrific, special shows! Here is the press release from the Museum:

“The Cartoon Art museum hosts Mike Gray, artist and creator of Thom Cat, (which will air on Nickelodeon in December 2008 as part of the Random Cartoons cartoon series) on October 11, 2008, 1:00 to 3:00 pm, as part of its ongoing Cartoonist-in-Residence program. Museum visitors will be offered the chance to watch Mr. Gray at work, watch his cartoons, [Read more…]

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I am excited to announce that “Thom Cat” has been selected to be shown at the 2nd Annual SDSU Children’s Animation Mini-fest which will be held on November 1 at the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings, SD.  This event is free and open to the public and is followed by a hands-on animation workshop for kids!  –Mike

I am very excited and honored to announce that “Thom Cat” has been selected to be shown at the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival! The film will screen the weekend of Sept. 20-21 at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. www.molaa.org An exact screening day/time will be announced in early September on the official festival Web site at www.lachildrensfilm.org (the films listed on the site as of today are not relevant to this year’s festival).  It may also be  screened at the big video game convention E for All Expo www.eforallexpo.com at the LA Convention Center Oct. 4-5 (also in conjunction with the LA Festival), but that is not confirmed.  –Mike Gray

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I will be at the San Diego Comic-con this week promoting “Thom Cat” for the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival and pitching “Thom Cat” as a series!  My schedule so far is Saturday July 26th from noon to 1pm at the Cartoon Art Museum booth (doing sketches for donations to the museum) and Sunday July 27th 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Room 10 for the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival screening of “Thom Cat” followed by a Q&A session with all the filmmakers, and then from 2pm to 3pm also on Sunday the 27th at the NCS (National Cartoonist’s Society) booth doing free sketches and talking about “Thom Cat!”  I will also be at the San Diego International Children’s Film Festival booth on the Mezzanine at least one time from Friday to Sunday doing sketches for donations to the festival, time TBD, please stop by the booth to find out when!  [Read more…]

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I am very proud to announce that ”Thom Cat” has been selected to be shown at the 5th Annual San Diego International Children’s Film Festival, July 27-Aug. 23 at Comic-Con International, the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park and the San Diego Central Library! Thom Cat will screen Sunday July 27 in our the theater in Room 10 at Comic-Con International (an exact screening time for the film will be available by late June/early July, and the Web site www.sdchildrensfilm.org will be updated at that time).  A second screening of the film will be on the weekend of Aug. 9-10 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park!  Thank you again to everyone who worked on the short!!  –Mike Gray

I am happy and honored to announce that “Thom Cat” has been an official selection of Fire Island Golden Wagon July 18-20, 2008 http://www.goldenwagonfilmfest.com/main.asp?id=Festival-2008!  The screening will be on Sunday, July 20th at approx. 11am as part of the Red Wagon Family Festival portion of the program.   –Mike Gray