Everything: Maude Macher Comes To Life

I was asked to do a segment for Channel 101's show Everything, and here is my contribution! It is starring my character Maude Macher. Here are the full credits:
Animation: David Gemmill, Kali Fontecchio
Background: Chris Whittier
Live Action Footage: Zach Zdziebko
Clean-Up/Inking: Kali Fontecchio
Coloring: Myke Chilian, Tommy Meehan, Kali Fontecchio
Special Effects: Jack Cusumano, Matt Danner
Editing: Nico Colaleo

Additional help from Stuart Livingston and Danny Jelinek

Thanks again to Jason Whetzell and Danny Jelinek for inviting me to contribute to their famous Channel 101 show (longest running show in 101 history too!) Here is the episode in its entirety:


The influences of this piece were Out of the Inkwell by Max Fleischer, and Duck Amuck by Chuck Jones. All my friends who worked on this helped make this a fun piece, without them it literally wouldn't exist.

If anyone was wondering the technical aspect here was my pipeline: thumbnail storyboards drawn on paper, rough animation drawn in Flash, every frame uniquely inked in Photoshop (to avoid that dead look of Flash and Illustrator). Colored in Photoshop, and edited in Final Cut. Special effects were crafted in After Effects, and the background was painted in Photoshop. The live action footage was shot with an HD Canon camera.

PS: all my roommates and I have a small cameo in this month's episode of Googy! And you might recognize the wolf boy too....

April May

I am currently working on something very exciting and will be able to show you all the first week of May- YAY!!!

In the meantime here are a couple of doodly doodly doos, doodle doodle do, doodly doodly doos, doodle doodle do.





In the meantime, keep yer pants on, and stay clean.
Oh ya! Don't forget to buy something and I'll send you a SHIT TON of freebies. I just got even more new stuff to give away so HUZZAH!

Please Vote For My Shirt!

If I get enough votes this will turn into an ACTUAL SHIRT!! It is chock full of eye balls and will be an all over print.
PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK TO VOTE FOR MY SHIRT! And don't worry you can log in with your Facebook account to vote if you don't want to sign up for a Threadless account. ^_^

It is up for voting for the next 7 days! :D :D :D

It's Raining Roommates

Nico, Tara, and Jack! I thought I'd make a family portrait, huzzah! And if you haven't checked out their sites, click their names to find out what magical cartoon treats await you in Internetland!

A Googy Cartoon And YO Gabba Gabba Comics

Myke Chilian and I made this short cartoon for the Channel 101 show Googy! It's a Pee Herman style kid's show, so we decided to make a 30s-esque cartoon. Both of us have day jobs so we worked on it at night. We wrote and recorded the song too. Here's the cartoon by itself:

Here's my early 30s style title card for the cartoon:

Here is the whole show, Googy Episode 3! Definitely check out the other episodes too! For those of you unfamiliar with Channel 101 rules, no show can exceed 5 minutes :p

Googy Ep.3 from mike manasewitsch on Vimeo.

Here we are as squirrels <3


-AND-

A 5 page comic I wrote, drew and colored is in the newly released Yo Gabba Gabba Comic Book Time Anthology!!!

Buy it on Amazon! Or goto your local comic book store! LOTS of amazing artists in it, including friends Becky of Tigerbuttah, and Julia Vickerman!

Birthday Bust-A-Move

Wow!! I haven't posted in a long while! Shame on me! SHAME! But hey, it's Nico's birthday, that calls for a blog post, HUZZAH! Here are a few of Nico's favorite animated ladies:

Speaking of birthdays, here's one for good ol' Stu Livingston! Things have been so busy, haven't been able to give it to him until the other day. CRAZY!

Lo and behold another new roomie! I am nesting in her lovely red locks. You guys know Tara Billinger, right?


For a more intimate, rather random and up to date look into my happenings check out my Tumbly Wumbly, which I have had secretly (until right now I suppose) for over a year! (Nico made one last year, so I did too, monkey pee and monkey poo).

I have a couple of new freebies on my Etsy, so check it out!


UPDATE!!! Donated this piece to Q Pop's Japan Fundraiser Auction! It is $100 and 100% of it will goto the Red Cross:

Sad Cream

Long-Forgotten Fairytale

Boy crazy! Crazy boy? Oh boy. Questions, comments, anecdotes?

4 Qwazy

WOW! An informative commercial (infomercial) for the product 4 Qwazy! BRO, SERIOUSLY? Dude, seriously.

McBusters Finale

The awesome Myke Chilian created this must see trilogy called McBusters for Channel 101. The finale is epic, and I must share it with you guys! He asked me to contribute, so I did! I also invited pals Nico Colaleo, and Bryan Newton to join in on the action. Eric Bauza has been doing voices since the first episode!



There is an awesome recreation of the ABC Saturday morning "after these messages" and then a commercial break during the cartoon. Upon return I created this title card in my style per request of Myke.


My caricature of the original Ghostbusters cast.

I drew a few of scenes throughout the short, and here is one where there is a sequence of 3D backgrounds by Andrew DeLange.

Below was combo effort, drawn by Myke digitally, and then printed out so I could color it with markers.

Myke's crew caricatured in the film- you might reconize a couple!


Also check out this post about the Q Pop opening in Little Tokyo by my friend Chubby Bunny!

Q Pop Is Qute!

Q??? I'm in an art show this Saturday at Q Pop in Little Tokyo (Downtown LA) ! Come check it out! There are some amazing people in this show, I'm pretty excited to see!

Here's my contribution, a cel painting on a slab of log! I love logs.

I also pitched in and helped mega-talent Myke Chilian on his final installment of McBusters! Once the show premieres this Saturday night, also in Downtown LA, I will do a big post with all my art from the show, so check back soon!