OLD SCHOOL JJSP PICTURES

BEHOLD!

Here's a collection of

poorly scanned

photos

from my years at 

J.J. Sedelmaier Productions.

It's hard to believe everyone has 

only become

more beautiful 

as the years have gone by.

Well, except for

animator

David Wachtenheim:

Here he is in shock 

at one of our commercial project's

impossible deadlines:

Here's designer

Gideon Kendall 

drawin'

Pycho Trainer

shoes:

Assistant animator

Mike Wetterhahn

getting his

fiber on 

for a

Fiber One

commercial:

Animator

Dean Lennert 

haunts

one of my earliest mentors

Bryon Moore:

JJSP

Production Queen

Irene

"don't do that, do this"

Cerdas

Animator/Designer

Ben Price

designing some 

Beavis and Butthead:

We helped 

intern

Athena Fliakos

realize that animation is a job

reserved for

dummy heads.

Robert Marianetti's

talent for growing facial hair

was trumped only by his 

talent for getting done whatever needed to get done:

Animation

production workhorse

Masako Kanayama.

 lived down the street from me

and I spent many nights 

running stacks of drawings over to her 

for coloring.

Mr. Sedelmaier with

Barry Vodos on the left

Ray Kosarin on the right

Nate Kaunfer in the back.

And Dean's head.

(i'm not sure why i don't have more pictures of Dean,

he was an integral part of the studio!)

Me doing exposure sheets for

Schoolhouse Rock

(or penning a letter of protest)

I think someone died in this picture.

But Dave photobombed it

so we'll never know who.

Irene and

Schoolhouse Rock

designer

Bill Peckman:

This was,

I dunno...

maybe my 

25th birthday

celebrating

25 years 

(and counting)

of ridiculous hair:

And here's a sooper triple bonus

ASIFA-EAST Executive Board 

picture taken at our annual end of year party:

First row L to R:

Dean Lennert and John R. Dilworth

Second row:

John Gati, Candy Kugel, Tissa David, Bruce Knapp

Third row:

Dick Rauh, Dorky McDorkenstein, Janet Benn, Bill Lorenzo

Those were fun days

back in NY!

A GAGGLE OF GAG DRAWINGS

One of the signs of a healthy

animation studio

is the amount of 

gag drawings

being passed around.

Or it's a sign of a

miserable studio

filled with disgruntled artists

but either way

it makes for

plenty of funny doodles.

Most of the time

everyone is grinding out

caricatures of each other

in ridiculous situations.

Some of the first drawings 

I starred in were at 

Buzzco Associates.

As a lowly intern,

I got all the weird jobs.

Like having to search 

New York City 

for a

Casaba Melon

because we needed one for drawing reference.

(no internet back then, yo)

by mike baez

bryon moore

Here's me wearing a pair of 

bumblebee slippers around the studio:

bryon moore

Someone turned on a fan next to my desk

one day and:

And then:

This one's from the bathroom/smoking lounge

of Jumbo Pictures

on the first season of

Doug.

(It grosses me out that I used to smoke so much!)

bryon moore

(pictured from left: bryon moore, sue burgos, dummyhead, nancy lane, simon deitch)

Most of the drawings I have

are from the 5 mighty years I spent at

J.J. Sedelmaier Productions,

especially from

Beavis and Butthead:

???

mr. warburton

mr. warburton

???

Birthday cards were a wonderful 

opportunity to stick it to your fellow co-worker.

Designer
Gideon Kendall

ALWAYS

killed it and

MAN

can he draw:

Gideon Kendall

I did this one for Gabrielle Ojeezwhatsherlastname

based on

Dollars and Sense

the

Schoolhouse Rock 

episode we were working on:

mr. warburton

gideon kendall and me

The Dean we speak of is

venerable animator

Dean Lennert.

His move from the big city to 

White Plains

inspired me to draw a

Life In Hell-style comic

based on his exciting new life:

 

I did this for

production queen

Irene Cerdas:

mr. warburton

Here are a couple from

Schoolhouse Rock's 

The Tale of Mr. Morton:

???

dean lennert?

nate kaunfer?

I have 

NO IDEA

why I'm having dinner with

Boy George in this drawing:

 David Wachtenheim

This had something to do with the suggestion

that my nose looks like the

Statue of Liberty's

Bryon Moore

Or that my hair looked like a carrot:

 ???

I often sat around

waiting for

Beavis and Butthead creator

Mike Judge

to show up 

and approve our character designs:

mr. warburton

 ???

mr. warburton

One day I'll post more

because I've got 

millions of these.

But if you want the

NSFW drawings

you gotta talk to

Dave Wachtenheim.

He kept all those for

um...

research purposes.

IT'S 1992 ALL OVER AGAIN!

After some NYC animation friends

posted a couple old school

Jumbo Pictures

pics on Facebook

I felt the need to dig out a couple

of my own.

Back in 1992

there weren't no 

blogs

or

facebooks

or

tumblrs.

We just had these:

I didn't draw in it much.

It served as more of a diary

of my early animation career.

Most of it's boring

production stuffs:

Occasionally a xeroxed cartoon

would find it's way in.

This one was of 

JJSP

Production Queen

Irene Cerdas:

Bryon Moore 

(one of my earliest mentors)

and I

spent way too much time

drawing

Carol Channing

attempting to murder us:

Here's an entry regarding the

Cluckin' Chicken

short we did for

Saturday Night Live.

After we were done animating on

an INSANE deadline

we were told we needed to change

Clucky's eyes so that they were 

GOOGLY

instead of looking at camera.

Which would have been fine

except for the fact that it

was already painted on cel

AND

we had to still have the project done

so it could air on Saturday:

And yeah...

we got it done

in time!

Too bad it got bumped from that week's 

show at the last minute.

Grrrrrrrrrr...

The next two were from

a Burger King commercial that

Sue Rose

designed called

"Wallet"

and some

Fido Dido

stuffs:

Sometimes there was nothing

but laundry

and 

passport photos:

Nice hair, dude.

But here's the real reason I

was digging through the book:

THE PHOTOS

TAPED IN THE BACK!

This group shot of the

ASIFA-EAST EXECUTIVE BOARD

really brought me back.

'

Here I am hanging out

 in the luxurious Jumbo Pictures bathroom

during a party with NYC animation royalty, from left to right,

Dave Concepcion, Simon Deitch, Bryon Moore,

Drinky McBeerstein and Miguel Martinez-Joffre

Master decorator

Jonathan Royce 

found the best use for 

some ugly curtains:

Not sure who that is with me

defacing the walls:

The mighty Buzzco Associates

triumverate

Marilyn Kraemer, Vincent Cafarelli and Candy Kugel:

Working

with

Sue Rose

at the lofty

West Village

office 

of

Fido Dido:

Me on my 24th birthday at

J.J. Sedelmaier Productions:

This was taken shortly after JJSP

added studio space on another floor:

Me and the honorable

Ben Price working on

Cluckin' Chicken:

I'm so glad I

kept these

journals,

if only to prove

that I've only 

become

MORE

handsome

as the years go by.

I hope you're keeping your own.

Seriously.