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:

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mr. warburton

mr. warburton

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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:

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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:

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I often sat around

waiting for

Beavis and Butthead creator

Mike Judge

to show up 

and approve our character designs:

mr. warburton

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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.