At this time, Comedy Central introduced its partnership with Sure, And… Laughter Lab to launch the all-new digital sequence The Drawing Board, which is able to spotlight the work of rising new voices in animation. The primary brief premiered right this moment (Tuesday, April 11) throughout Comedy Central Animated social platforms, with extra content material rolling out within the coming weeks.
The primary featured creators in this system will embrace Maddie Brewer, Noah Cutwright and the trio Xano Cuervo, Mario Garza & Daniel Napoli.
This system goals to broaden animation alternatives within the comedy area for underrepresented expertise, with a give attention to BIPOC, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ folks and ladies, and to strengthen Comedy Central’s dedication to utilizing its platforms to assist develop inclusive voices on this planet of animation. Sure, And… Laughter Lab (YALL; yesandlaughterlab.com) helped determine a number of of those creators, to showcase new and crucial voices for the Comedy Central viewers and the trade at giant.
Comedy Central has been a sponsor of YALL’s incubation lab for various comedic writers, animators and performers since its founding in 2019. Since then, Comedy Central has labored with quite a few YALL creators together with comic/animator Joey Clift, and the group behind the Comedy Central digital sequence Momo’s Amerika (Ayman Samman, Abdallah Nabil, & Yusef Zeidan).
The primary episode of The Drawing Board, “Squeezed Between Two Bros on a Flight to Florida” by Maddie Brewer, launched right this moment as a Comedy Central Animated YouTube Premiere. Episodes will even roll out weekly throughout the Animated Fb & Instagram, in addition to Comedy Central Fb, Instagram, Twitter & TikTok.
Extra about The Drawing Board featured creators:
Maddie Brewer (maddiebrewer.com) desires to make bizarre films for the weirdos of the world. She is a contract director, animator, illustrator, and author based mostly in Los Angeles. She grew up in Wrigleyville, in Chicago, and she or he’s influenced by the point she spent there wandering round thrift shops, going to native reveals and hitting up the Golden Nugget diner in the midst of the night time. She’s captivated with creating humorous, surreal worlds and her unusual and character-centric storytelling goals to focus on the comedy inherent in being alive. She’s labored with shoppers resembling Bento Field, Grownup Swim, VICE, Blink Inc, Grin Machine, Augenblick, Nickelodeon and extra.
Noah Cutwright (noahcutwright.com) is an award-winning cartoonist and director. Cutwright grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended The Cleveland Institute of Artwork to earn his BFA in Animation. He has beforehand labored for numerous corporations resembling Cartoon Community Studios, Grownup Swim and Disney, and is a co-founder of Imaginex Animation Studios, LLC, an animation studio that has produced work for numerous shoppers, notably, Niles Abston’s animated brief movie, The Opener, which Cutwright additionally directed.
In 2018, his movie, Floyd was a semi-finalist within the forty fifth Scholar Academy Awards and obtained numerous different awards and nominations. Cutwright can also be the creator of the award-winning sketch and internet sequence The Carsons, which just lately raised over $16,000 on Kickstarter to fund an independently produced half hour pilot episode, written and directed by Cutwright, which is presently in manufacturing.
Xano Alexander Cuervo (xanostudios.com) is a Latin American author/director born and raised in Miami. His brief movie The Threat Takers was awarded the Grand Jury Award by The New York Worldwide Movie Pageant and Greatest Episodic on the Hollywood Reel Impartial Movie Pageant amongst many others. His animated sequence Capitan Churro was chosen as a showcase winner for Sure, And… Laughter Lab. His subsequent venture is the action-thriller characteristic movie Restoration Night time.
In 2020 Cuervo co-launched Latin Hollywood Group. Along with his filmmaking profession, Xano has additionally labored in post-production for shoppers like Apple, Meta, Honey (acquired by PayPal), ESPN, Warner Brothers and lots of others.
Mario Garza (mariodoeskoolshiit.com) is a Mexican author & director based mostly in L.A. His work focuses on coming-of-age tales that sort out acceptance and validation in controversial, unexplored worlds impressed by his nomadic adventures. His newest tasks embrace writing and & directing his first characteristic movie in Spain, capturing a Warner Bros. Discovery proof of idea teaser for his second characteristic movie, signing a growth deal for an episodic sequence about truffle dealing and creating an animated venture for Comedy Central.
Garza’s work has earned him accolades at Oscar qualifying festivals resembling Slamdance, Filmquest, Laliff, HollyShorts, Oaxaca Movie Pageant and London Movie Pageant, amongst many others. He has lived throughout the globe whereas creating huge price range promoting campaigns for manufacturers like Meta, Nike and Apple that includes Hollywood actor Dwayne Johnson, soccer famous person Neymar Jr, Latin Grammy Winner Becky G and Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville.
Daniel Napoli (a.okay.a. DaniNaps) is an animator, story artist and digital media designer. Having grown up on cartoons and video video games, it’s his dream come true to be making animated content material for a residing. He acquired his begin on brief type, gag-oriented animations, and has labored with many studios, organizations and people all through a assorted profession. Since then, he’s accrued expertise in constructing and managing artistic groups, most just lately, appearing as design lead and animator on a brief for Sesame Road, 7 Busy Beavers, artistic director on instructional presentation The Quick-Observe to Web Zero and artistic lead on authentic videogame IP Muffins On Stream.
