Dexter's Lab

these were painted for Dexter's Lab (created by Genndy Tartacoughsky) when Dave Smith (genius creator of Bozzlebag's Zip, JoJo and Mushhead, and voice over kingpin for MANY a famed Dreamworks© character) was running the show with a bunch of other CalArts kids from my past while GT and his flaming sword were at the helm of SAMURAI JOKE. a word about Mr Smith. he was the ONLY one who trusted me enough as a painter or artist to let me get involved with ANYTHING creative after my dissolve with the heart of darkness at Cartoon Network (by this i mean a few fat headed kids who thought they were the SH*T because their pilot was chosen for series based on it's homogeny and mediocrity - these shows were a network's stab in the dark at what might be popular - there was no falling out with the network itself - i was hired on Johnny Bravo before i gave Dexter's Lab the finger it so deserved - i'll never forget that because it felt SO GOOD!). THANKS DAVID PRESTON SMITH for letting me have a chance without having to kiss the ring! at this juncture i'd like to point out how long ago these were painted and that i am choosing NOT to rant about how queer everyone in animation truly is today (this of course barring Pixar - what's up John L! please save imagineering! NOTE: NO GROVELING FOR A JOB IN THIS RANT!) - though i will ad that nothing ever produced by Genndy or Craig was even remotely funny aside from a few boards that Dave Smith, Cindy and Clay Morrow Don Shank, Lou Romano, or Mike Stern did. "BOY what an attitude!" - my EXACT thoughts about so many talented people in the cartoon industry! for the most part i find humorous programming today to be nebulous vague poorly timed never ending and based in juvenile naiveté - in a word - unfun