Spike & Mikes Sick & Twisted 'Spike & Mikes Sick & Twisted' album

"Unprotected," a brand-new compilation of 19 animated shorts from the infamous Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation, will be released for the first time on DVD by Shout! Factory September 2nd. The release of the DVD will coincide with the publication of "Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike & Mike Festivals," being published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., as well as the Fall 2003 Spike & Mike Film Festival Tour Dates. Included on "Unprotected" are short films by famous animators Craig MacCracken, Pete Metzger and Tony Millionaire, amongst others.

"Spike and Mike's Festival is a fun and irreverent one-of-a-kind festival." --George Lucas

"I owe my entire career to the festival. They are a shining beacon of hope in the fog of Hollywood for all beginning animators to show their work to the outside world."
?Andrew Stanton, PIXAR Animation, Director of "Finding Nemo"

"Unprotected" is the second in a series of titles from Spike & Mike to be released by Shout! Factory, the first and only company just "sick and twisted enough" to bring these titles to the retail consumer. In fact, Shout! Factory will be culling through the entire Sick & Twisted catalogue of over twenty-plus years of footage to bring additional titles to DVD, including a minimum of four new titles from upcoming festivals.

Featuring over an hour and twenty minutes of films that both explore and push the boundaries of animation as an art form, the "Unprotected" compilation will be available to the consumer for the first time at retail and showcases the work of over 21 noted animators. The release of the DVD will be promoted at all of the 2003 Spike & Mike Film Festival dates nationwide with displays and screenings of the DVD trailer. E-mail blasts, postcards and posters will be sent to targeted fans and retailers across the country along with a cross-country college campus promotional campaign as well as servicings to major morning disc jockeys such as Howard Stern and Kevin & Bean.

""Spike and Mike's Festival gives audiences the ONLY opportunity to view the wonderful art form of the animated short film." --John Lasseter, PIXAR Animation, Director of "Toy Story"

The Sick & Twisted traveling cartoon festival is an offshoot of the Spike & Mike Animation Festival, which began as filler at rock concerts twenty-five years ago and remains the leading venue for cutting edge cartoons. Supported year after year by tens of thousands of devoted fans around the world, Sick & Twisted is now a part of the Cannes, Anneccy and Sundance Film Festivals and continues to fill arenas nationwide, offering new and upcoming animators a place to showcase their films (as a sidebar it is interesting to note that The Sick & Twisted Festival "toured" with the rock band Korn on a recent cross-country swing). The original show, now referred to as the Classic, was the brainchild of college friends Craig "Spike" Decker and Mike Gribble (Gribble died of pancreatic cancer in 1994), who started their notorious career by illegally showing movies in their house located off-campus and charging admission for the screenings and the wild parties that usually followed.

""Nearly every hit-breeding animator in the business was either launched or given early exposure through Spike and Mike." --Los Angeles Times

The Spike & Mike Animation Festivals have helped to launch the careers of now-famous animators such as Matt Stone and Trey Parker ("South Park"), Nick Park and Peter Lord of Aardman ("Creature Comforts," "Chicken Run"), Craig McCracken ("The Powerpuff Girls"), Mike Judge ("Beavis and Butthead"), Pete Ducter ("Monsters, Inc."), Andrew Stanton ("Finding Nemo") and John Lasseter ("Toy Story," "Monsters Inc."), just to name a few.

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