Checklist: TV/Animation Credits
Added 2023-02-28 22:57:33 +0000 UTCIn alphabetical order, including unproduced scripts and series bibles. Should be complete as far as the main points go. It would be nice to be able to add something to it someday but I'm not holding my breath. We stumbled into most of this work through comics and never actually threw ourselves into the industry, never got an agent or did the rounds. In hindsight, maybe I should have gone for it. But agents want you to work on anything so they can also make money, and we basically liked working on things we thought we'd like working on. And we were doing okay back in the day. It's a decent little resume considering we never pushed for anything. And I'm the one who killed my own chances at a second pilot on the Adult Swim. I'm grateful for everything on the list. By and large.
There's a Superman episode that apparently ends with an idea of mine taken from a plot pitch and used without credit. The writer/producer apologized, it was unconscious, and considering all that was done for us I wasn't too worked up about it. By and large.
TELEVISION/ANIMATION WORK
BATMAN BEYOND
WB 1999
"Splicers" Co-written with Sarah Dyer
BEN 10
Man of Action/Cartoon Network
Feb 2017-“Xingo” episode, co-written with Sarah Dyer
CODENAME: KIDS NEXT DOOR
Curious Pictures, 2003
Sarah's story sale
COMEDY CENTRAL
Week-long writing stint as part of "Writer's Think Tank" program
DC NATION
WB Animation – 2012-2013 Premiered August 10th, 2013 on Cartoon Network
Scripts and charcater designs for five Metal Men shorts co-written with Sarah Dyer.
HANNA-BARBERA
"Super Sam and Spot"
Rewrite script for unproduced Cartoon Cartoon short
KAMANDI: THE LAST BOY ON EARTH
WB Animation, Sept 2011
Pitch bible for proposed series, co-written with Sarah Dyer
SPACE GHOST COAST-TO-COAST
Cartoon Network
Scripts co-written with Sarah Dyer
1995-1998
"Gum, Disease"
"Girlie Show"
"Jerk"
"$20.01" (A Space Ghost Episode)
"Switcheroo"
"Art Show"
(Unused rewrite of Matt Groening episode, called "Escape")
"Cookout"
"Anniversary"
"Pilot"
"Zorak"
"Hipster"
"Telethon"
("Unused script, "Contest")
"Lawsuit"
Also wrote SG segment of 1986 Cable Ace Awards and linking segments for the SGCTC Dark Side of the Ghost Planet video/laser show tour.
SUPERMAN -THE ANIMATED SERIES
WB 1996-1997
Scripts co-written with Sarah Dyer
"Livewire"
"Monkey Fun"
"Little Girl Lost" parts 1 and 2
SHIN CHAN
Funimation, 2006
Rewrite on episodes 1-8, 10 and 11 of Crayon Shin-Chan anime, co-written with Sarah Dyer. Rewrites for 10 and 11 were not used.
SKELETON KEY
Sunbow, 1999
Re-development and pitch bible, co-written with Sarah Dyer
WELCOME TO ELTINGVILLE
Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, aired March, 2002
Series pilot creator/producer, writer, co-writer of bible (w/Sarah Dyer), character and background designs, voice actor.
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
Murakami, Wolf, Swensen 1989-?
Storyboard clean-up on three episodes
TYRONE’S INFERNO (original title: MENTAL WARD)
Cartoon Network /Adult Swim - unproduced
Mini-bible – Aug, 2003
Pilot script – Aug, 2005
Revised Bible – Dec 2006
Shelved – Feb 2007
VENUS CRUSH
WB Animation, Oct 2012
Pitch bible for proposed Bruce Timm series, co-written with Sarah Dyer
YO GABBA GABBA!
Wild Brain/Nick Jr
Season 1 2007
Character design w/Sarah Dyer – Super Martian Robot Girl
Production art, Storyboards, breakdowns, character designs, etc (w/Sarah Dyer) – SMRG animated segments (7)
Season 2 2008
Writer, “Big” episode (co-written w/Sarah Dyer and Christian Jacobs)
Writer, Sprinkle Story Time animated segment (co-written w/Sarah Dyer)
Segment character designs and production art, color design by Sarah Dyer
Writer, Robot Story Time animated segment
Sarah Dyer sole co-writer for “Family” episode with Christian Jacobs
Season 3 2009
Writer, “Superhero” episode (co-written w/Sarah Dyer and Christian Jacobs)
Writer, “Bugs” episode (co-written w/Sarah Dyer and Christian Jacobs)
Writer, art direction, Story Time “Super Martian Robot Girl” (co-written w/Sarah Dyer)
Season 4 – Sarah story credit - ep title?
DVDs FEATURING OUR WORK
Superman vol 1-3
SGCTC vol 1-4
Batman Beyond vol 2
Shin-Chan vol 1
Adult Swim in a Box – Eltingville pilot
Yo Gabba Gabba –?
ANIMATION INDUSTRY AWARD NOMINATIONS
1999 - "Annie Award" - individual writing (with Sarah Dyer) SGCTC episode "Lawsuit"
Comments
Ah, nice! I missed that in DORK. Thanks for the details. A friend who worked on that show said a former coworker of hers had some (or all?) of the original art. Maybe he will be able to do something useful with it.
Gray Whitten
2023-03-05 20:52:06 +0000 UTCI saw online that Underground was being shuttered (boo) and didn't even think about the site. I did a four-pager prequel to 2000 Maniacs, about the town meeting they held to work out their contrived murder plans. The comic was reprinted in the Dork HC collection. I don't have the files on my own computer, but if/when I can get them I would post them here.
Evan Dorkin
2023-03-04 03:07:44 +0000 UTCSort of TV-adjacent: I recently learned of your cartooning for the TCM Underground site in the early 00s. I missed those at the time! The site is now gone with the unfortunate recent cancellation of TCMU. Do you have a copy of your stuff for that project? I know Bagge and some other cartoonists did strips for it, too.
Gray Whitten
2023-03-03 15:41:26 +0000 UTC
