Friday, July 24, 2009

Andy's New Gigs

DIC vanished into the ether some little time ago, and I have wondered (though not often) what Mr. Andy Heward has been doing since.

Now I know.

... The “Secret Millionaires Club” is the title of a new cartoon staring the Oracle of Omaha, in which Buffett’s cartoon likeness (who with his stylish glasses and wavy gray hair looks much younger and more coiffed than the real-live Buffett) dispenses investment advice to a motley crew of kids from Omaha. The episodes are to be distributed over the internet by the end of 2009 or early 2010. AOL is helping produce the show ...

Deal Journal spoke to the cartoon’s creator, Andy Heyward, of A Sqaured Entertainment LLC in Los Angeles. Heyward has been producing a cartoon for the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting for many years and approached Buffett a few years ago with the idea for a show for kids ...

Heyward is also producing separate cartoons starring Martha Stewart and supermodel, Gisele Bundchen, who moonlights as an environmental superhero. “Gisele helps emphasize girl power,’’ he says ...

DIC might be part of animation history, but it's good to know its former owner-operator sails on ...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Turning out that high-quality animation for which he's so widely known.

Anonymous said...

I'm going to guess that the Martha Stewart voice gets ghosted by someone who can do it without the monotone.

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