Animation
“Mr. Newgarden is known to arrested adolescents everywhere as the creator of the 1984 craze ‘Garbage Pail Kids’. . . Another cult following remembers him for B. Happy, a 1999 animated series on the Cartoon Network’s Web page. The series chronicled a surly Bluebird of Unhappiness and its quest for hopeless cases of human misery.”
– Mark Dery, The New York Times
B. Happy
A Cartoon Network “World Premiere Toon” series, 1999.
B. Happy ran 24 hours a day on www.cartoonnetwork.com from 1999–2003.
“Deliciously warped.” – The Boston Globe
“Ambitious.” – Playboy
“A lesson in how to do it right.” – The Village Voice
In each episode B. Happy, a reluctant bluebird of happiness, is dispatched to Earth by the Goddess Maureen to help determine a case of personal human misery. If B. Happy chooses incorrectly he is made personally miserable himself by the angry Goddess. If he chooses correctly, he is rewarded with complex carbohydrates. The viewer (augmented by the technological marvel of CLICK-O-RAMA™) helps decide the fate of each case, and of B. Happy himself.
Created, Written and Directed by Mark Newgarden
Executive Producers: John Carlin, Mark Newgarden
Creative Directors: Peter Girardi, Chris Capuzzo
Producers: Kristin Ellington, Denise Rotina
Co-producer: Laura Rosenberg Kraning
Production Assistants: Mia Lotringer, Seth Cooper
Technical Director: Veronique Brossier
Title Design: Peter Girardi
Lead Animator: Devin Flynn
Animation: Veronique Brossier, John F. Brzyski, Xeth Feinberg
Additional Animators: Dave Redl, Jason Sawtelle
Inking: Bill “Ink Slugger” Alger, Valerie Cillufo, Megan Montague Cash
Audio Production: Seth Cooper
Voices: Susan B. Murray, Russ Reiley, Brian Dewan
Music and Sound Design: Brian Dewan
A Funny Garbage Production
Cartoons and You
This cartoon can be seen here.
Produced by Laffpix Inc., 2000
Written and Directed by Mark Newgarden
Production Design: Mark Newgarden
Animation: Mark Newgarden
Narration: Brian Dewan
Featuring Russ Reiley as EM™
Sound Design: Immemorial Music, Mark Newgarden
Interaction 2002 (Print Magazine’s Interactive Design Annual) Winner: Certificate of Design Excellence, 2002
Broadcast Design Award International Winner: Silver Medal, 2001
ASIFA-East Animation Awards, Commercials and Promotional films, 2nd Place, 2001
The Art Director’s Club of New York, Winner: Award of Distinctive Merit, 2001
A Second Chance at Life! (An Adver-Info-Toon)
This cartoon can be seen here.
Produced by Laffpix Inc. for The Corporate Presence, 2000
Written and Directed by Mark Newgarden
Production Design: Mark Newgarden, Bill Alger
Animation: John Kuramoto
Featuring Russ Reiley as Professor Lucite
Additional Voices: Doug Skinner, Brian Dewan
Sound Design: Immemorial Music, Mark Newgarden
Poster: John Pound
I.D. Magazine’s Interactive Media Design Review Winner: Bronze Medal, 2001
The Art Director’s Club of New York, Winner: Award of Merit, 2001
Mark Newgarden has also contributed design and content to numerous other animated projects. Clients include Microsoft Inc., Paramount Pictures, Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Comedy Central and They Might Be Giants.
Listerine Agent Cool Blue (character design, villains), Johnson & Johnson
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