Paul Dini

HELLOOO, TWIN CITIES! Next month join me & my Warner Bros. Animation campadres @tomruegger.bsky.social & Paul Rugg at TWIN CITIES CON! Freakazoid's so excited he's already moved to Minneapolis and found local employment. The other Vikings cheerleaders couldn'd be more thrilled.
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Or paying decently to have the original creators back. To most current rank and file animation execs, the value is in the IP, not the creators. It's different in prime time, but for "kids shows" it's about staffing the job with whoever works cheapest, and firing them the second the job is done.

Researchers Say Modern Man Unable To Create Shows As Good As 'Animaniacs' CAMBRIDGE, MA — Despite years of attempts by the most brilliant minds on the planet, researchers said that modern man is unable to create any television shows as good as Animaniacs.

Sadly true.
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What I dread is the copycat AI Walt soon to be charging 200.00 for a photo op at Disneyland.

Long time ago for MTV. It never went.

And I yours!

Thanks!

Okay, it's silly, but I still feel a little jolt of happiness everytime I get to write the name "Superman" in a story. Awesome art by @mirkand.bsky.social from something fun coming soon.

D'oh! Yes.

Tiny Toon Adventures Season 3 Episode 2: "New Class Day" (406-181)

"The Just-Us League of Supertoons" / "Sound Off" / "A Night in Kokomo"

Buster and Babs attend new classes for the semester.

Writers: @pauldini.bsky.social and Sherri Stoner
Director: Byron Vaughns
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This was so much fun.

"Hi. Who am I blocking?"

Chip Kidd recently gave us an amazing gift -- a portrait he had commissioned for us of Arleen Sorkin, both in, and emerging from, her role as Harley Quinn. The stunning image is by the magnificent Anita Kunz. I thought it only fitting to post it today, the 33rd Anniversary of Harley's debut.

Same.

That pad is a 30 year hold-over from the Jean MacCurdy days. After she left, any such custom extras like that were quickly 86ed by the incoming regime.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Freakazoid (hooray!) so I'm posting this memento from 1995. Ahh, for the dear, departed days at Warner TV Animation when the characters would gather in the courtyard at Termite Tower (AKA the Imperial Bank building) for their weekley Mallet Club beating, er..meeting.

No, he's an old Mickey Mouse comics villain from waaay far back. He has shown up in the new Mickey TV shorts, though.

Tonight's phone doodle: Inque. Haven't played with her in a minute, now she's back oozing around my consciousness again. So much fun to draw, even though I can never get her swirls quite right. The Phantom Blot seems very smitten. Forget it, Son. She'd eat you alive. Honest.

"Loon Lake." Thanks! I love that one. Wrote it for my sister, the ballerina in our family.

Minerva, taking a late summer stroll thru her garden, or possibly posing for her New Yorker cover. A winsome portrait by Dave Alvarez with a nod toward latter-day Chuck Jones style. One of my new signing pieces at last week's Long Beach Comic Con. Tomorrow, a merry mallet mash-up.

I'm sorry, but if Andrew Scott is in it, it's not a mystery. Whichever character he plays, they did it. Case closed. Okay, just kidding, I don't know. But I am looking forward to this.

It is. A special summertime image created by me and Dave Alvarez.

Here's a quick peek at some of the new and unique art prints I'll have at my table this weekend at the Long Beach Comic Con. See you there!

Berserker Harley!

Next week, August 30th and 31st, come join me at the Long Beach Comic Con and Expo! I'll be there with my animation compadres Tom Ruegger and Rob Paulsen, and whatever surf-going cartoon pals that might drop by!

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This will be a good time! Everyone come!

We can but hope. Cartoon characters and alcohol - not a good combination.

Attn: @pauldini.bsky.social

I borrowed Nora's name from the heroine of Ibsen's "A Doll's House." As the Nora in that story is a woman emotionally and developmentally held in stasis by her controlling husband, I thought it was an appropriate fit.