Celebrity Deathmatch: Those Nagging Questions Finally Answered! (Part 2)
Eric Fogel, the man behind Celebrity Deathmatch, talks about reactions from Marilyn Manson, Howard Stern and Lucy Lawless.read more
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Building a stop-motion animation studio can be a challenging endeavor. Especially when that studio is located on the 31st floor of a corporate office building right smack in Midtown Manhattan. read more
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Growing up, I was a latch key kid, often coming home to an empty house after school. My babysitters’ names were Popeye, Tom, Jerry, Bugs and Daffy. I was literally raised on those old school cartoons...
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The beautiful thing about inspiration is that you never know when it’s going to hit. Case in point – it’s 1989 and I’m working in the equipment checkout room at NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts. The room...
View ArticleThe Battle For Celebrity Deathmatch, Part 3
With the success of Deathbowl ’98 a symbolic battle had been won. But the war to get this stop-motion slugfest on the air as a regular series still remained. read more
View ArticleThe Head is Born, Part 2
I’ve never been very good at math but there is one equation that I do understand: creativity + ambition + timing + a little luck = success.read more
View ArticleCelebrity Deathmatch: Those Nagging Questions Finally Answered! (Part 1)
“Has a celebrity ever come after you for making fun of them?” Over the years this has been one of the most frequently asked questions put to me, regarding Celebrity Deathmatch. read more
View ArticleThe Battle For Celebrity Deathmatch, Part 2
Convincing an MTV exec to greenlight a couple of Celebrity Deathmatch shorts seemed like a herculean task. Turns out that would become the first of many battles to get “Celebrity Deathmatch: The...
View ArticleThe Battle For Celebrity Deathmatch, Part 1
In the case of Celebrity Deathmatch, I knew I had a solid concept – two celebrities with a score to settle face off in a clay animated wrestling ring…and fight to the death! The pitch could not have...
View ArticleIt all started…
Eric Fogel, creator of MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch, starts blogging on AWN with a little background on a youth spent at his drafting table creating comic books.read more
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