INKTOBER 2019 | DAY 06
🇺🇸 HUSKY - In More Ways Than One, Lay-dees.
🇧🇷 RUDE - Em Mais

Reblog if you're going to stay in the Wander Over Yonder fandom after the show ends.

I don’t wanna be alone… ;~;

This is truly beautiful, how far we’ve come in that the relationship of fans with producers is so close and real.

There’s no way we could ever thank @peepsqueak for starting #SaveWOY,  but I thought maybe a poster signed by Jack McBrayer, Keith Ferguson, Craig McCracken and the rest of the Wander crew would be a good place to start.

And thank you to everyone who signed the petition. It meant so much to everyone on the show. We don’t know what the future holds, but you’ve given us all hope - and for that I am eternally grateful.

🇺🇸 I love that Disney is also making Warner Bros. cartoons nowadays, haha. I dream of getting the chance of working with this team. 🇧🇷 É o máximo a Disney estar fazendo desenhos da Warner Bros. hoje em dia, haha. Eu sonho em ter a chance de trabalhar com essa equipe.
@tarabillinger

🇺🇸 Wow! I am SO behind on these! 
🇧🇷 Uau! Eu estou SUPER atrasado com esses!

This is the single greatest thing I’ve ever seen.

Almost forgot to post this.

Here’s my Mung Daal cosplay from ACen last weekend.

Bald caps are a pain in the arse.

Wander Over Yonder is one of the best cartoons I’ve ever had the bone-tickling joy of coming across. There was no episode that was bad for me—just ones more awesome than others!

You guys are the greatest in the galaxy.

Some thoughts on heavy serialization and continuity in kids cartoons.

Historically, Networks do not like serialization in comedy cartoons because serialized cartoons do not rate as high in the repeats as the stand alone cartoons do. They have found that once a viewer has watched an episode and got the next part of the story, they tend to not watch that same episode when it repeats. But if the show was just a simple funny cartoon they will watch it again, because they want to laugh at the jokes again. 

So for this reason, we as the show creators are oftentimes discouraged from producing serialized shows with heavy continuity. The Networks feel they need the episodes to be stand alone for the sake of repeats, ratings and for programming a 24 hour animation channel. This has been the case since I started making cartoons in the early 90′s.

A few years ago some comedy cartoons started integrating complex and serious plots into their shows, and it was a refreshing change from the status quo. Finally we thought this was our chance to tell deeper stories and when I first started Wander back in 2011, I asked if I could make it a serialized 22-minute show.  I was simply told no. 

The Network really wanted Wander to be produced in the classic, stand alone 11 minute format, because they felt that’s where they would get the most bang for their buck. And from a programming standpoint I could understand that.

So after producing a season of silly one off cartoons we got the pick up for season 2 and we asked if we could finally try and tell a bigger story with complex continuity.  The network was open to exploring that idea, but they didn’t want to lose the looseness of season 1. 

So a COMPROMISE was reached. We would create a continuity that thread through four 22-minute episodes that were to be scattered throughout the season. The 11-minute episodes in between would be loosely related to that arc, but would still stand alone so they could be repeated in any order.

I’m writing this because I’m seeing a lot of desire for the next piece of the puzzle, the next turn of the plot, the next big change and I will honestly tell you that will not really happen until the next 22-minute episode. The following 11-minute episodes will continue to be loosely related to the arc. For instance, Hater is no longer crushing on Dominator, Wander isn’t trying to get them together, and there will be some character insights that inform the 4 part arc, but there will also be some random one-offs that really have nothing to do with the arc at all.

Wander is still the silly and funny KIDS show that we started with season 1. It is not highly serialized, it is not extremely complex and serious as some of you wish it were.  I’m posting this because I really want people to enjoy the show for what it IS and not get mad at it for what it ISN’T.

@butchhartman I accidentally drew a weird little man handling a weird little wand!

@crackmccraigen @suspendersofdisbelief The first time I drew our favorite little hyper furry spoon-shaped cosmic wanderer.

This is awesomely revolting!

Some designs from Ed, Edd n’ Eddy’s BIG PICTURE SHOW…from a sequence that never made it in: Jonny 2x4’s nightmare. Insomuch as I drew these, they are REALLY REALLY close to what RAVEN already drew in the board! She kicks ass is why!

Sign the petition and competition!

https://www.change.org/p/walt-disney-encourage-disney-to-make-wander-over-yonder-season-3

Please sign the petition to #saveWOY and get it renewed for a third season!

So in order to increase awareness for this petition and to get more signatures I’m going to start a competition. One reblog will count as an entry. You can like the post if you want but only the reblogs will count. I will use a random number generator to determine the winner depending on whether you were the 11th to reblog or the 23rd, etc. I will do the draw, announce and contact the winner on the 3rd April 2016.

The prize is a free Wander Over T-shirt in your size of your choice out of these three and I’ll also pay for postage.

Please please please don’t forget to sign the petition! That’s why I’m doing this competition in the first place! Now get out there and reblog and sign! and best of luck to all who enter!