Chat from 3-29-03. Has been edited. When will Party Wagon air? CraigB- November I deliver it to CN. Then, they decide when to run it. Around the holidays, I 'spect. Yeah, I'm deep into it these days. I've been drawing like crazy. Unusual for me. Lots of storyboard fixes Is there a good amount of done episodes yet? CraigB- It's an hour and a half, yknow. Only the tv movie, it's still just a pilot. No eps yet. This was from a chat that has been edited. No words have been changed, only comments from others have been deleted for the purpose of readability. When creating Party Wagon, Did you make it in the same light atmosphere as HA!, or did you change it around? Also, what other differences are there? CraigB- well, party wagon is a western, so it's set 150 years ago, and that's a big change from arnold but the humor is sort of the same cause i make things funny in my own stupid way things that make me laff. one of the things i love about early America is the way they talked, and that's a big part of pw. mark twain is the best for that, huck finn is such wonderful english it was a big influence. so if arnold is about a buddhalike kid in a big city, pw is about a 16-yearold who runs away from his shotgun wedding and escapes out west. he meets a bunch of characters, all slackers and losers, and they make a story! i want pw to make fun of white people, and make fun of america cause they could use it!cause i'm doing the next hour, it'll be a tv movie,
Hmmm, is Party Wagon gonna be on Adult Swim? CraigB- nope, it's supposed to be for all ages now. adult swim is too late. no one would see it. I'm guessing you especially put yourself in characters you voice, like Brainy or Ned; am I right? CraigB- yeah, i like to hide in the characters a little. i wrote myself a good part for party wagon because i want to be in every ep this time. romeo jones, the fiddle playin' fool. romeo's kinda dense. he's illiterate CraigB- party wagon has cool music mr lang of course How long exactly does it take to make ONE episode of a cartoon? CraigB- about nine months to make a halfhour cartoon. i'm doing another hour of party wagon, it'll take a year it's due next november
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