A Superhero, at Last & The Team Behind the Toons
April 24, 2004
Article by Harvey Deneroff
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Article copyright ACI, 2004. All Rights Reserved.
In conjunction with the 17th Kids Choice Awards ceremony, Nickelodeon arranged a junket for a reporter from The Star, in Malaysia, to do a couple of interviews in Los Angeles. One is with Butch Hartman, creator of The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom (pictured), which is the focus of the story.
Hartman says, "I'm a very hyper person, so all my characters are very hyper. Some guys I know are heavy and their characters are slow and heavy. So a lot of what you are goes into your drawings."
As to whether there is any message in his cartoons, he responds in part that, "I just want to grab [kids] and not let them go for half an hour - then I'll let them go, and they can come back if they want to. But I don't want them to get bored, that's why everything is cut so fast. But there's no message, no moral, really. But I do put a lot of love in my shows and that'll come through, hopefully."
