Jammers (film)

Jammers
Created by Lizz Hickey
Written by Lizz Hickey
Casey Alexander
Directed by
Voices of
Composer(s)
  • Mike Krol
  • Casey Alexander (additional music)
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Brian A. Miller and Jennifer Pelphrey (for Cartoon Network Studios)
  • Curtis Lelash and Rob Sorcher (for Cartoon Network)
Producer(s)
  • Nate Funaro
  • Mike Roth (supervising producer)
Editor(s) Rob Getzschman
Running time 8 1/2 minutes
Production company(s) Cartoon Network Studios
Release
Original network Cartoon Network
Original release May 18, 2015 (2015-05-18)

Jammers is an American animated short pilot created by Lizz Hickey for Cartoon Network. It follows the story of a middle schooler girl named Carol (voiced by Hickey herself), with her best friends Jeremy and Danny (respectively voiced by Michael Showalter and Steve Little), which together form a trio called "Jammers". Carol is supported by her aide subconscious named Lil' Carol (voiced by Natasha Leggero), that is a head flying by her own appearance, and by her two-legged pet frog named Timtam.

Production

Jammers was created by Lizz Hickey, an animator and crew member of BuzzFeed Video[1] but also a contributor artist in Root Rot, the anthology book edited by Michael DeForge and Annie Koyama.[2] Its plot was based on the comic book of the same name, in which she took about six years to make it happen, and then was published by Hic & Hoc in 2012.[3] A few years later Hickey was contacted by Cartoon Network, where they picked up her project as a pilot episode for the channel; it was announced with an Adult Swim pilot in developing called Doble Fried.[4]

Produced at Cartoon Network Studios, Hickey worked alongside the Uncle Grandpa's creative director Casey Alexander for writing and storyboarding, with Nick Cross as art director and Andrew Overtoom instead as animatic director. Nate Funaro and Mike Roth were the producer and the supervising producer, respectively.

Release and reception

Jammers was released on the official website of Cartoon Network in May 18, 2015, along with Ridin' with Burgess, Twelve Forever, and Tome of the Unknown (the latter is the pilot of the first channel's miniseries Over the Garden Wall).

In June the co-writer Casey Alexander, from his Tumblr profile, announced that Jammers (along with Twelve Forever) was in running for a nomination at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards as "Outstanding Short Form Animated Program". Both shorts were not allowed.

References

  1. BuzzFeed Video Team
  2. "Root Rot". Koyama Press. 2011.
  3. OLeary, Shannon (November 9, 2012). "BCGF Preview: Liz Hickey’s JAMMERS". The Beat — The News Blog of Comics Culture. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  4. MacDonald, Heidi (May 21, 2015). "Cartoon update: Lizz Hickey’s Jammers and Matt Furie’s Doble Fried get pilots". The Beat — The News Blog of Comics Culture. Retrieved May 26, 2015.

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