Monday, August 08, 2005

Props to Toon Writers

Caught this in Harry Knowles' review of the film, Sky High:
Having TV toon writers behind the scenes... well it could be genius. Writers of cartoons are the single most denigrated area of writers in the industry. Studios, not usually known for writer respect, tend to shrug these guys off as sub-humans, but I've often felt that if you were wanting to make perfect family films bristling with untethered imagination. These "cartoon writers" could do it. If you take the really fun animated series on TV – these guys and gals that write them are under such a strict set of rule systems that writing PG feels like you were set free.
Damn. Harry couldn't have hit the nail anymore on the head without Standards and Practices coming down on him for imitate-able behavior.

Toon writers so rarely get noticed, let alone congratulated. Hope this is the beginning of a trend.

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