Original Listing Description

Rare and exclusive employee gift, this GIANT (23 1/2" x 11 1/2") gorgeous promo calendar was designed for the launch of new Hanna-Barbera animation shorts for Turner Entertainment's Cartoon Network in 1995.Large 23 1/2" x 11 1/2" glossy reprints of original art posters for the World Premieres Toon series, in day-glo colors, using solid plate dot-free lithography in a traditional four-color process.WORLD PREMIERE SHORTS:* The Powerpuff Girls Meat Fuzzy Lumkins* Johnny Bravo* Dexter's Laboratory* Cow and Chicken* O. Ratz - Rat in a Hot Tin Can* Hard Luck Duck* Yuckie Duck - Short Orders* Worm - Tales of Worm Paranoia* Shake & Flick - Raw Deal in Rome* Dino in Stay Out* Pfish and Chip in Short (and Sensitive) Pfuse* Melvin & Malcom* Back page is a three-month 1996 calendar promoting their upcoming Jonny Quest rebootFROM TV EXECUTIVE FRED SEIBERT'S FLICKER PAGE:"Call me crazy, but I’ve always loved calendars (heaven knows, I never actually use one). And when I got to Hanna-Barbera it seemed they would be a great way to communicate the studio was heralding a new future. Every year we focused on our most important creative and strategic initiatives, and brought a high quality design focus that had never really existed at the studio in the past. Great photography, illustration, and most of all great cartoons would let the world know we were back. These calendars were distributed to studio employees, and a select list of colleagues, business partners, and friends of the company Hanna Barbera Cartoons Calendar 1995 1995’s calendar celebrated Hanna Barbera’s last era as a creative production studio and we’d spent the previous three years preparing. After rebuilding the production system from the ground up for the first time in 20 years, the studio started the ambitious What A Cartoon!/World Premiere Shorts project. Animators across the world were invited to pitch original characters for an original short cartoon completely, creatively supervised by the creator. It was our attempt to go “back to the future” and develop an environment that produced the great cartoon characters of the mid 20th Century. Thousands of storyboards later, we selected 48 shorts to produce and ended up with new classics like The Powerpuff Girls, Cow & Chicken, Johnny Bravo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and Dexter’s Laboratory. And solidified the future of the industry’s talent with stars including Genndy Tartakovsky, David Feiss, John Dilworth, and Craig McCraken. Cartoons would never be the same. I wanted the calendar creative to be as exciting as our studio, so we selected a design style reflecting the revival of the modern rock posters inspired by Frank Kozik. The studio’s Creative Director, Bill Burnett, led his design team to real heights while highlighting twelve of the first shorts released Credits: Hanna-Barbera Cartoons Creative Director: Bill BurnettArt Direction & Design by Jesse Stagg & Kelly Wheeler TM and ©1994 Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc.©1994 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved."Will be shipped in a large, thick poster tube to ensure it is delivered in the same condition shown here!"Why We're Wackos" introduction written by the fictional Jerry Composito (seen on the cover). According to the description, it is a composite photograph of 12 Wacko directors, featuring Bill Hanna's chin, Joe Barbera's nose, Eddie Fitzgerald's mouth, Craig McCracken's right eye, Van Partible's left eye, Pat Ventura's left ear, Eugene Mattos' right ear, Genndy Tartakovsky's neck & shoulders, Butch Hartman's cheeks, David Feiss' eye brow and the left elbow of Ralph Bakshi (not shown). (Condition: Pre-Owned)

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