Please, consider the unconsidered art of the original cartoon title card.
Gracing thousands of animated shorts over the past century, here’s the first collection exclusively dedicated to this coolest example of contemporary graphic design.
Cartoon title cards ranked among the most creative and completely overlooked art forms in American popular culture. Not dismissed. Not debated. Simply ignored. This book changes that.
Original Cartoon Title Cards is the first book dedicated exclusively to the episode title card as an art form, collecting more than 300 full-color examples from the animated series produced by Frederator Studios founder Fred Seibert. The 3rd edition adds 90 new pages and spans a remarkable range of work across three decades of American animation.
The series represented include What A Cartoon! (Cartoon Network, 1995-1998), The Fairly OddParents, ChalkZone, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Fanboy & Chum Chum, Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Random! Cartoons, Too Cool! Cartoons, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!, Adventure Time, Costume Quest, Castlevania, Bee and PuppyCat, Bravest Warriors, GO! Cartoons, The Meth Minute 39, Ape Escape Cartoons, Nite Fite, SuperFckers*, and more.
The cards themselves show extraordinary breadth: hand-lettered typography, pencil drawings, computer illustration, paper cutouts, and lush painterly backgrounds, each designed to fill roughly ten seconds of screen time before vanishing forever.
Curated by Eric Homan and Fred Seibert, with cover design and illustration by Carlos Ramos, this volume is part of The FredFilms Professional Library.
An essential reference for animation historians, cartoon fans, graphic designers, art directors, typography enthusiasts, and anyone serious about the visual history of American television animation.
#3 in the FredFilms Professional Library
Original Cartoon Title Cards Presented by Eric Homan & Fred Seibert 3rd Edition
Paperback available on Amazon. Preview a PDF on Scribd.
246 pages
Dimensions : 8.25” x 0.58” x 6”