THE WORK
HOW TO DRAW A HAPPY CAT – Hippo Park Books
How To Draw A Happy Cat is a fun filled journey through creativity that is an official Junior Library Guild selection! Ethan T. Berlin did the words and I did the drawings and wow! It’s a good time. Learn to draw a cat, puppy, chicken, squid (a squid?), skateboards, a launch ramp for the skateboard (duh.) pizza, an airplane, a catapult for hurling the pizza up to the plane everyone is skateboarding on (this is getting dangerous), parachutes, and a dolphin riding a scooter at a disco party. Does that sound fun to you? IT DOES TO ME! Available everywhere you get them books you love.
Adult Swim – Ballmastrz 9009
The ep I wrote is now an Official Selection of the 2020 Ottawa International Animation Fest! So happy for all involved!
“You gotta give the people what they want… people want balls!”
We just got picked up by HBO Max and are working on new….?
Ballmastrz is Christy Karaca’s jet fuel anime driven rock god fun for Adult Swim. Did I manage to take a cynically dystopian future narrative and make it into a happily aggressive love fest? Fuck yeah, I did!
Clip is from selected ep!
Dreamworks TV – Jetbear
12 serialized episodes on the number one spot online for children’s entertainment, DreamworksTV! Captain is just a bear who wants to be normal, that aint happening…
All Jimbo Matison’s fault.
Dreamworks TV – News That Doesn’t Stink
48 episodes of Fun Fake News for Dreamworks TV! Half of these were puppeted and the other half stop-motion animated!
You never knew what was going to hit you when watching News That Doesn’t Stink!
DreamworksTV – Public Pool
12 fun filled episodes I directed and co-written with fantastic show creator David Fremont. It’s like Caddyshack in a swimming pool. Oh, them kids!
IATV – Uncle Morty’s Dub Shack
2 seasons/26 episodes of what became a cult classic. Cowritten and directed with the ever talented Trevor Moore.
San Francisco Chronicle said- Uncle Morty’s Dub Shack is Mystery Science Theatre 3000 meets the Beastie Boys. The series has that wonderful let’s-make-a-TV-show quality to it, which is by no means a knock in a TV world filled with slickly processed, underwhelming crap. And that’s precisely where the joy in watching it resides.
IATV doesn’t exist anymore and there’s tons of clips on youtube posted by fans. This here is one of my favorite dare to be dumb episodes.
SYFY/Wildbrain – Space is Dum
2 seasons/27 episodes of Dude and Larry sent to outer space to find potential locations for new Starbucks. They never found a proper location but they did have a lot of fun not doing it!
The Carolina Hurricanes wanted more kids in their arena on a new Family Night they were pushing. I simply helped people realize they already liked hockey but just weren’t aware of it.
“Do you like ice? Big sticks? Things that go real fast? Then you like Hockey!”
These won ADDY Gold and improved Family Night’s attendance so much we went on to do 14 spots.
There’s much more to show, let’s grab a drink or tea. Yes, tea is a drink but you know what I’m saying.
You rock.
Jimbo Matison
Short client list: McCann-Erickson, Saatchi & Saatchi, DreamworksTV, Coke, Starbucks, Burger King, Roca Wear, Pringles, MTV, Nickelodeon, AwesomenessTV, IATV, Fox, NHL, Colossal Pictures, Wildbrain, Mondo Media, Nuvana, Interscope, Sony, Terri & Sandy, Imperial Records, King Records, bigpoint.com, and more.
Some clients were tall.