Mike Judge is best known for creating MTV’s Beavis and Butt-head as well as King of the Hill. He has a new animated series that will air on ABC next year called “The Goode Family.” John Lasseter is the Chief Creative Officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation where he has led the industry in computer animation. Nick Park is a British clay animator known for his characters Wallace and Gromit.

The Denver Broncos have long been my favorite topic to draw about (25 years now at the Rocky Mountain News) and I’m always looking for fun ways to cartoon the season as it unfolds.

So this year, I’m jumping head first into the pool of animation with online cartoon webisodes of The Broncs Zoo. It’ll be about all things Broncos related and kind of like Saturday morning cartoons except without the cereal commercials. It will be regular feature on rockymountainnews.com right next to my daily sports cartoons.

Billboard reports that ‘J-Stache’ follows the adventures of Hall & Oates star John Oates, who is coaxed out of his family man life and back into the music world by… his moustache (voiced by comedian Dave Attell).
Speaking to Billboard, Oates said: “In a cartoon setting, the moustache has its own personality. Just as I’m represented as the John Oates of today, the moustache is the John Oates of yesterday.”

The cartoons will be paired with advertisements placed on targeted Web sites, and will also be available on the Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube.com, Rubin said.

In an interview, MacFarlane described the installments as “animated versions of the one-frame cartoons you might see in The New Yorker, only edgier.”

“By delivering an animated Dilbert five times per week, RingTales and United Media are blazing a new media trail to the future of comics online,” said RingTales President, Michael Fry. He adds, “with the addition of Dilbert to our already popular New Yorker animations, we’re poised to begin to replicate the habit-forming print comic experience in animation, anywhere people can watch or read comics in digital form.”

“I decided to end the print syndication mainly for time reasons,” Telnaes said in reply to an E&P question late this afternoon. “When The Washington Post asked me to increase the animations, I realized I couldn’t realistically do both since I do all the animation myself. So I thought this would be a great opportunity to take the next step in editorial cartooning.”

“Animation is where the future of editorial cartooning is heading,” Shelton told E&P.

The duo hopes the new site — designed by Leger — will eventually become self-supporting via ad revenue after traffic for PoliticalBastards.com grows. “We think there’s an audience for it,” she said.

Currently, the site includes faux ads. Visitors will, after a minute or so, see caricatures of Joseph Biden and Fred Thompson emerge out of the lower left corner of the home page and run across the screen into the faux beer ad in the upper right corner.

It’s a slapstick ode to Warner Bros. and Tom and Jerry toons, in which a turn-of-the-century magician finds himself in a hilarious onstage feud with his hungry rabbit. Talk about a carrot and stick reversal. Presto, the magician, has never experienced such humiliation, as the crafty rabbit, Alec, gives him a taste of his own supernatural hocus pocus. There are plenty of magic hats and vaudevillian antics during the frantic five minutes, punctuated by iconic squash-and-stretch gyrations and bug-eyed reactions. Presto gets egg on his face, is attacked by a ladder, has his clothes torn off, gets electrocuted, uncontrollably dances a jig and is hurled high into the rafters. And the stuffy audience cheers every moment of it.

Now that I’m getting things to move it’s all about learning comic timing in animation and some secrets to film making. I’m really excited about the possibilities ahead as I adapt to this new way of doing cartoons. I’ll still continue to bring you daily sports cartoons but these animations I believe will add a whole new dimension that I hope you’ll enjoy.

His blog with all his cartoons, comments and now animation can be seen here.