ASIFA East presents: An evening with the creators of Super Jail. moderated by: Dan Meth Panel: Christy Karacus (creator, director, the voice of Alice), Stephen Warbrick (co-creator, editor), Britt Myers (sound designer), and Richard Mather (the voice of the Twins). Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Article by Sam Marlow. On Thursday, February 19th, the creators of “Super Jail” got together at The School of Visual Arts to give insight about their first season. The panel was moderated by animator Dan Meth, and the guests included Christy Karacus (creator, director, the voice of Alice), Stephen Warbrick (co-creator, editor), Britt Myers (sound designer), and Richard Mather (the voice of the Twins). “Lets get this party started… in my pants.” Said Richard, in the voice of his character. Christy Karacus explained the origins of his collaboration for Super Jail. In the 1990′s, Karacus worked at MTV doing background designs for Daria. At the time, MTV was proposing to commission animated shorts for a program called Labs. In 1999 Christy and Stephen collaborated on a short film called “Bar Fight”. In the similar style of Super Jail, bar flies find themselves erupted in violence for 4 minutes. After its completion, MTV shelved it, along with the rest of their animated shorts program. Karacus and Warbrick made copies of it on VHS, as passed it around. Without success from Bar Fight and not animating for three years, claimed Christy, he moved on with Warbrick to create Super Jail. They...
ASIFA-East presents an evening with the creators of Adult Swim’s Super Jail! Join us for this special panel discussion moderated by animator Dan Meth – Q & A with audience to follow. Admission: FREE! SVA School Of Visual Arts 209 East 23rd Street (Bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave) 3rd Fl, Amphitheater NYC
