House of Fun Newsroom

Next week, four more new episodes of Yo Gabba Gabba! will be premiering on Nick Jr, and two of them have SMRG segments in them!

Super Martian Robot Girl in Do You Like My Haircut (a.k.a. "Harry Haircut" according to Emily) is in episode 111 and will be airing: 9/25 (Tuesday) at (I believe) 10:30 am.

Super Martian Robot Girl in Dance of the Cobra Man (a.k.a. "Snakey" according to Emily) is in episode 113 and will be airing: 9/26 (Wednesday) at 10:30 am.

I think both will be repeated in the afternoon and/or on Friday, plus they'll go into rotation after this.

Also -- if you are, or ever were, a ska kid or rudie....do not miss episode 112, which will air on Monday. TRUST ME ON THIS ONE. I MEAN IT.

Posted by Sarah at 03:57 PM | Permalink

We have a schedule for the first two weeks of YGG's airdates on Nickelodeon -- of course, that's starting this past Monday while we were still up in Toronto. The segment we worked on is the Super Martian Robot Girl feature and two of our episodes will be airing during the premiere period:

Super Martian Robot Girl in Jumbo Shrimp (a.k.a. Shrimpy according to Emily) is in episode 102 and will be airing: 8/24 Friday at 1 pm; and 8/30 Thursday at 1 pm.

Super Martian Robot Girl in Where's My Mama (a.k.a. Pink Baby according to Emily) is in episode 106 and will be airing: 8/28 Tuesday at 10:30 am; and 8/31 Friday at 1pm.

FYI: (mostly swiped from Evan) the YGG shorts were originally planned for live action, and the first few were shot as such. For the original live action version, we did the costume design for Super Martian Robot Girl and the comic book cover/panel art. For the animation: script breakdowns and storyboards by Sarah, character and background designs by Evan with Sarah's help, finished drawings by Evan, color by Sarah, flash animation by two small animation studios (and one big one - Shrimpy was done at W!ldbrain).

Posted by Sarah at 03:31 PM | Permalink

Monday, January 9th, at 8:30pm
"FUNNY PAGES"
with Bob Powers & Todd Levin

and featuring the drawing skills of
Evan Dorkin (Milk & Cheese, Dork comics)
Emily Flake (Lulu Eightball)
Lauren R. Weinstein (Inside Vineyland)
Michael Kupperman (Snake & Bacon)
Nicholas Gurewitch(Perry Bible Fellowship)

MO PITKIN'S HOUSE OF SATISFACTION
34 Avenue A, between 2nd and 3rd Streets
(upstairs)
[not sure what the ticket price is, but it will be in the $5-$8
range, i suspect]

For more, see: http://www.tremble.com/

Posted by Evan at 11:17 PM | Permalink

Sarah will be a featured speaker on a panel at the upcoming Duke University Symposium entitled "Sisterhood, Riot Grrl and the Next Wave", taking place this October 26th-27th. Because one of the topics being covered is girl zine history, there will be a large exhibit of zines and other works, many from Sarah's collection, which is on display at Duke as part of the Sally Bingham Center. The symposium is open to the public, so if you are in the area, feel free to check it out.

Posted by Evan at 06:58 PM | Permalink

Fellow NYC cartoonist Bob Fingerman and I will be appearing on the video game/pop culture show Filter this Monday, January 31st at 10 PM (eastern) on the G-4/Tech TV cable channel. I have no idea what clips they'll be using, or how many, so I can't tell you what to expect. I, of course, expect the worst. But we shall see...

Posted by Evan at 06:29 PM | Permalink

Sarah and I will be attending the upcoming Big Apple Con this September 18th and 19th, at the Penn Plaza Pavillion, 7th Ave and 33rd Street in Manhattan, NYC. Show times are 10 am - 7 pm, both days.

Guests will include Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, Kim Deitch, as well as mainstream vets such as Sal Buscema, Denny O'Neil, and Jim Steranko. For more info, and how you can get the autographs of unemployed Star Trek actresses and an "exotic car model" (cripes), go to: http://www.bigapplecon.com/prod01.htm

We'll have preview pages from Biff Bam Pow!, Bizarro 2, and a few other projects. As always, I'll be doing free sketches. We'll also have our SLG books available for sale (as well as what's left of my "mainstream work" overstock), artwork, buttons, and the like. This will be our last show appearance for the year, and actually, for quite some time, so we hope to see you there.

Posted by Evan at 01:45 AM | Permalink

This coming Saturday (May 8th) we will both be appearing at the Hawthorne High School Comic Show, in Hawthorne NJ. Info available is a bit sketchy, but there's a press release up for the show here. Admission is $3, and raises money for the school's art programs. So stop by if you're in the area!

Posted by Sarah at 12:41 AM | Permalink

We'll be at this Saturday's Funnyrama this Saturday (the 24th) from noon to 5 (well, it runs from noon to 5pm, I'm not promising we'll be there every second of that) in NJ. Check the link for details, and we hope to see you there!

Posted by Sarah at 01:18 PM | Permalink