Toon-In Talk
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Episode 42: Interview with Tina Nawrocki
June 13, 2023 02:18 - 1 hour - 139 MBWhitney Grace interviews traditional 2D animator Tina Nawrocki. They discuss video games, 2D animation, 2D animation in video games ,mermaids, and Tina's short film, Syrenka: The Legend of the Warsaw Mermaid. Support Syrenka: The Legend of the Warsaw Mermaid Indigogo Campaign Film Website Tina and her Mermaid Team
Episode 41: Barbara Goodson & Robert Axelrod
June 08, 2023 04:22 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBWhitney Grace interviews voice actors Barbara Goodson and Robert Axelrod.
Episode 40: RC Samo & Whitney Grace
March 31, 2023 02:35 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBLong time geeks and friends Whitney Grace and RC Samo kick off a new addition to the Toon-In Talk podcast. www.fanboynation.com
Episode 39: Jake S. Friedman
March 22, 2023 05:14 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBJoin Whitney Grace as she connects with animation historian Jake S. Friedman about his new book, The Disney Revolt. Friedman discusses an infamous part of Disney history involving legendary animator Art Babbitt. Jake S. Friedman's Website The Disney Revolt Website
Episode 38: Hamid Rahmanian
June 05, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBJoin Whitney Grace as she speaks with artist Hamid Rahmanian, who is the director, writer, and creator of Feathers of Fire. Rahmanian's Feathers of Fire is a brilliant, animated shadow puppet stage show adapted from the Persian epic The Shanameh. Visit Hamid Rahmanian's website and watch Feather's of Fire.
Episode 37: Niki Smith
April 30, 2020 16:00 - 50 minutes - 69.4 MBWhitney Grace interviews graphic novel writer and artist Niki Smith about her new LGBTQA fantasy novel, The Deep and Dark Blue. Whitney not loves the Niki Smith's graphic novel, but the pandemic has gotten to her mental health in the form of delusions and illusions of grandeur.
Episode 36: Rob Paulsen
April 01, 2020 21:09 - 11 minutes - 15.3 MBRob Paulsen takes some time from his busy voice acting schedule to spend some time with host Whitney Grace and things get weird.
Episode 35: Michael Dooley
March 27, 2020 16:00 - 2 hours - 207 MBWhitney Grace gives details behind her hiatus and mental health, but things perk up with the ultimate professional geek, Michael Dooley. Michael Dooley is an awesome behind the scenes professional, who teaches, writes, takes photographs, and knows the same people as Whitney.
Episode 34: Chris Prynoski
October 07, 2019 14:00 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBWhitney Grace is digging through her queue of old new stock interviews and pulls this beauty out with Chris Prynoski! Chirs Prynoski is the founder and head of Titmouse Inc., an independent animation studio that's been making a name for itself since 2000. Titmouse Inc. has worked on a variety of cartoons for Disney, Adult Swim, and Netflix as well as feature films Nerdland, Teen Titans Go, and the new Foxy Trotter and Hanazuki.
Episode 33: Jerry Beck
September 30, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBJoin Whitney Grace in this blast down memory lane with an old episode from her now defunct first podcast. In this episode, Whitney interviews renowned animation historian Jerry Beck. They delve into Beck's career and animation history.,
Episode 32: Mathew Klickstein
September 23, 2019 18:28 - 2 hours - 193 MBWhitney Grace interviews fellow pop culture enthusiast and writer Mathew Klickstein about his new book Spring Confidential about the animated sitcom The Simpsons . Klickstein wrote Springfield Confidential with former Simpsons head writer Mike Reiss.
Episode 31: Whitney Grace
June 18, 2019 05:07 - 1 hour - 84.9 MBWhitney Grace shares where she's been and some facts about herself,
Episode 30: "Interview" with Frank Welker
December 08, 2018 05:56 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MBIn the thirtieth episode of Toon-In Talk, Whitney Grace has always wanted to interview the very private voice acting hero, Frank Welker. So what do you do when you can’t get the reclusive actor to chat with you? Create your own dream interview of course. This is an exercise in creativity and how one would hope the interview with your hero would go. This was constructed with much love and respect for Mr. Welker’s talents. [NOTE: If you don't realize it, let me put it bluntly: this is a joke ...
Toon-In Talk Episode 29: Interview with Brenda Chapman
December 08, 2018 05:48 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBHello and welcome to twenty-ninth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Concluding Whitney’s longer than expected series the Ladies of Animation is an interview with Academy Award winner director Brenda Chapman. Brenda is best recognized for her work as the writer and director of Pixar‘s Brave and the director of DreamWorks’s The Prince of Egypt. She also had an extraordinary career at Disney working on Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, an...
Toon-In Talk Episode 28: Interview with DragonCon’s Dan Carroll
December 08, 2018 05:44 - 1 hour - 98.6 MBHome Podcasts Toon-In-Talk Toon-In Talk Episode 28: Interview with DragonCon’s Dan Carroll Toon-In Talk Episode 28: Interview with DragonCon’s Dan Carroll Podcasts Toon-In-Talk August 24, 2016 Whitney Grace Save VANAPHASE™ the Vanadium powerhouse! Hello and welcome to twenty-eighth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Every year Whitney heads to Atlanta, GA to mingle with other geeks and practice her puppetry skills at DragonCon. DragonCon is th...
Toon-In Talk Episode 27: Interview with Vicky Jenson
December 08, 2018 05:42 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBHello and welcome to twenty-seventh episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Continuing with her fabulous Ladies of Animation series, Whitney interviews the one and only Vicky Jenson. Vicky is one of the top animation directors, in Whitney’s opinion, in Hollywood and she also lends her talents to television animation as well. She is respected as the director of DreamWorks’s Shrek and Shark Tale. Vicky’s resume includes the shows Smurfs, He-Man, JEM...
Toon-In Talk Episode 26: Interview with Yvette Kaplan
December 08, 2018 05:40 - 1 hour - 109 MBHello and welcome to twenty-sixth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Whitney is back from her hiatus and ready to finish her Ladies of Animation series. She’s returning with an awesome guest, Yvette Kaplan. Yvette Kaplan has a prestigious animation career working in both feature and television animation. She made a name for herself as the supervising director for the quintessential 1990s cartoon Beavis and Butt-Head. Yvette also directed the ...
Toon-In Talk Episode 25: Interview with Art Brown
December 08, 2018 05:34 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBHello and welcome to twenty-fifth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Whitney had to take a short hiatus due to everything hitting the fan at once, but now she’s back with Art Brown, executive produce of DreamWorks’s How To Train Your Dragon: Dragons Race To the Edge. Dragons Race To the Edge is an exciting Netflix exclusive cartoon series and it continues with its second season. Hiccup, Astrid, Fishlegs, Tuffnut, Ruffnut, Snoutlout, Toothless, ...
Toon-In Talk Episode 24: Interview with Jinko Gotoh
December 08, 2018 05:27 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBHello and welcome to twenty-fourth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. It’s also time for the fourth round of interviews for the Ladies of Animation Month, Whitney Grace’s yearly tribute to women who work in the animation industry and mission to inspire girls to pursue their animated ambitions. Jinko Gotoh is the executive producer on the new animated feature film The Little Prince directed by Mark Osborne. Jinko has held various role in the ani...
Toon-In Talk Episode 23: Interview with Kristy Scanlan
December 08, 2018 05:15 - 49 minutes - 67.3 MBHello and welcome to twenty-third episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. It’s also time for the third round of interviews for the Ladies of Animation Month, Whitney Grace’s yearly tribute to women who work in the animation industry and mission to inspire girls to pursue their animated ambitions. Kirsty Scanlan is the co-president of the Women in Animation organization. Kirsty fell into animation when she worked at Threshold Entertainment and fell i...
Toon-In Talk Episode 22: Interview with Cheryl Henson
December 08, 2018 05:06 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBHello and welcome to twenty-second episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. It’s also time for the second round of interviews for the Ladies of Animation Month, Whitney Grace’s yearly tribute to women who work in the animation industry and mission to inspire girls to pursue their animated ambitions. Puppetry has many things in common with animation, including principles that make inanimate characters come to life. Cheryl Henson is a proud promoter of...
Toon-In Talk Episode 21: Interview with Marge Dean
December 08, 2018 05:02 - 1 hour - 91 MBHello and welcome to twenty-first episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. It’s that time of year for the Ladies of Animation Month, Whitney Grace’s yearly tribute to women who work in the animation industry and mission to inspire girls to pursue their animated ambitions. Whitney is a proud member of the Women in Animation organization and with their helped she rounded up great professional women who have made successful careers in animation. To kic...
Toon-In Talk Episode 20: Interview with Joseph Phillip Illidge
December 08, 2018 04:56 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBHello and welcome to twentieth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Whitney loves comic books and graphic novels, so when she’s not watching cartoons she’s reading comics. One of her favorite cartoon sagas is the DC Animated Universe, including the fabulous cartoons Static Shock and Batman: The Animated Series. Whitney had the luck to speak with Joseph Phillip Illidge, who helped shaped the hero Static at Milestone Media and also reinvigorated he ...
Episode 19: Interview With Craig Kausen
December 08, 2018 04:44 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBWhitney is a huge Chuck Jones fan and she also loves to visit art galleries. When she was at Comic-Con 2010, she learned about the Chuck Jones Galleries and their mission to promote animation and comic artwork. She's been following them ever since and she tracked down Craig Kausen, Chuck Jones's grandson and head of all Chuck Jones related companies, to discuss how he is preserving Chuck's legacy and spreading the message of creativity. Craig’s grandfather was Chuck Jones ,one of Bugs Bun...
Toon-In Talk Episode 18: Interview with Dragon-Con’s Beau Brown and Jake Trabox
December 08, 2018 04:22 - 1 hour - 117 MBHello and welcome to eighteenth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Every year Whitney attends several of the biggest conventions in the US and one of her favorites is Dragon-Con held in Atlanta, GA. Dragon-Con is a big convention with an intimate feeling, because it allows you to have up and close interactions with the guests and it never feels too over crowded. The Dragon-Con staff are super organized and they are dedicated to ensuring fans ha...
Toon-In Talk Episode 17: Interview with Adam Toews
December 08, 2018 04:16 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBHello and welcome to seventeenth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. What happens when an animation fan, an animator, and his crazy co-workers decide to have some fun during a podcast interview? This is what happened during the seventeenth episode. Whitney chats with Adam Toews, an illustrator on the hit series Archer. Adam works at Floyd County Productions, an Atlanta-based animation studio. They discuss Adam’s career, his work on Archer, and...
Toon-In Talk Episode 16: Interview with Bruce Reitherman
December 08, 2018 04:12 - 1 hour - 125 MBHello and welcome to sixteenth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Have you ever wondered what happened to kid voice actors when they grow up? Whitney Grace has! After watching Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book, Whitney wondered what happened to Mowgli. It turns out that Mowgli is Bruce Reitherman, son of Wolfgang “Woolie” Reitherman, one Disney’s Nine Old Men! Bruce was more than happy to discuss his experiences voicing Mowgli and growing up at th...
Toon-In Talk Episode 15: Interview with Jez Stewart
December 08, 2018 04:07 - 1 hour - 99.4 MBHello and welcome to fifteenth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. During research for her book on Lotte Reiniger, Whitney was using the British Film Institute’s website for information. She came across some great animation information, not just about Reiniger, but also about British animation. Jez Stewart in the BFI’s Animation Animation Curator and during this interview he discusses British animation history, the BFI’s animation holdings, and ...
Toon-In Talk Episode 14: Interview with Jai Husband
December 08, 2018 04:04 - 1 hour - 115 MBHello and welcome to fourteenth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Whitney is joined by animator, director, writer, and producer Jai Husband. Jai comes from a great animation legacy, his father is famous Walt Disney animator Ron Husband. Growing up in the animation industry inspired Jai to pursue animation as his own career. Jai has been successful so far with is own projects inspired by African-American culture. He directed Kasha and the Zul...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 13: Interview with Rick Pickens
December 08, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 95 MBHello and welcome to thirteenth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. If you are listening to this podcast, you’ve probably considered becoming an animator at some point. The traditional method is to attend a university animation program, but higher education isn’t necessarily the correct route for everyone. There are dozens of online programs dedicated to teaching 3D animation, but there is only one that focuses on the traditional, hand drawn met...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 12: Interview with Veronica and Raina Taylor
December 08, 2018 03:57 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBHello and welcome to twelfth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Whitney has a treat for all listeners today! Not only does she interview the fantastic voice actress Veronica Taylor, famous for her role as Ash Ketchum on Pokemon, Astroblast, Welcome to the Wayne!, and Mofy, but she speaks with Raina Taylor. Raina is Veronica’s uber cool daughter, so this episode is a first for the show: a mother-daughter interview. Veronica discusses her career...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 11: Interview with Ed Asner
December 08, 2018 03:23 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBHello and welcome to eleventh episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Whitney had the pleasure of interviewing a legendary actor of screen and stage, the incomparable Ed Asner. Asher is famous for not only playing Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but he has lent his voice to many animated shows and movies. You might recognize him as Hudson on Gargoyles, Granny Good from the DC Animated Universe, and as Carl Fredricksen from Up. He even tells...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 10: Interview with Rick Goldschmidt and John Brickley
December 08, 2018 03:18 - 2 hours - 139 MBHello and welcome to tenth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. At the mention of the name Rankin-Bass, it probably stirs up nostalgic Christmas memories of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, A Year Without a Santa Claus, and other holiday specials using stop-motion puppetry. While Rankin-Bass might be best known for its Christmas specials, it was actually a major animation and film studio that produced many popular animated serie...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 09: Interview with American Dad Cast and Producers
December 08, 2018 03:13 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBHello and welcome to ninth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. American Dad is a popular animated sitcom from the deranged, talented mind of Seth Macfarlane-Family Guy creator. The show recently switched networks from FOX to TBS and American Dad is now free to explore more creative and lewd plots that push the envelope so far they are blinding the censors. At the New York Comic-Con, Whitney scored a roundtable interview with the American Dad cast...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 08: Interview with Tim Beyers
December 08, 2018 03:09 - 2 hours - 132 MBHello and welcome to eighth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. For animation fans, the release of a new animated film is always exciting. 2015 is going to have a lot of animated films showing on the silver screen, but yo have to wonder what will succeed and what will bomb at the box office. Whitney interviews geek financial analyst Tim Beyers to discuss what 2015 animated movies will be a success and what will fail. Show Notes Tim Beyers ...
oon-In-Talk Episode 07: Interview with Ronald M. Banks
December 08, 2018 03:05 - 53 minutes - 98.1 MBHello and welcome to seventh episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Mortal Kombat X is the latest game in the legendary fighting series and Whitney scored a interview with the voice of the villainous Quan Chi. Ronald M. Banks is the extreme opposite of the villain roles (meaning he’s a swell guy) he tends to get cast for in his extensive musical and theater career. In this interview, he discusses his journey into voice over and how he plans to gro...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 06: Interview with Mathew Klickstein
December 08, 2018 02:59 - 1 hour - 144 MBHello and welcome to sixth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. If you grew up in the 1990s, you most likely watched Nickelodeon and were a fan of their Nick Toons. The 1990s have become known as the Golden Age of Nickelodeon Studios and nostalgia always comes into play when that decade is mentioned. Mathew Klickstein felt the same way, so he wrote Slimed! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age chronicling the adventures of cast, crew, and o...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 05: Interview with Monty Oum
December 08, 2018 02:56 - 56 minutes - 103 MBHello and welcome to fifth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. In December 2014, I had the honor of interviewing the animator Monty Oum of Rooster Teeth. Monty Oum was one of the creative leads for the American anime RWBY. He was an entirely self-taught animator, specializing in online cartoons and videogames. This interview was originally meant to air in the same month, but the sound quality was very poor. In January 2015, Monty Oum had a s...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 04: Interview with Richard Thomas
December 08, 2018 02:51 - 1 hour - 110 MBHello and welcome to fourth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. When you think about animation, you most likely think about a US studio. In fact, a lot of animation is made in other countries and there are a lot of fantastic studios overseas. Whitney had the luck to interview with Richard Thomas of One Animation, a Singapore studio, and discuss new animation projects, like in Asia, and what they love about animation. Show Notes One Animation...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 03: Interview with Britni Brault
December 08, 2018 02:48 - 58 minutes - 107 MBHello and welcome to third episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Whitney decides to interview a special part of the animation industry with her special guest Britni Brault, a talented and prominent paper artist. Britni has created paper sculptures for the Walt Disney Company and it’s possible you have seen some of her work at the parks. She also makes pieces for other studios and clients. Britni and Whitney discuss everything from what a paper scul...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 02: Interview with Scott Christian Sava
December 08, 2018 02:43 - 1 hour - 123 MBHello and welcome to the second episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. This episode features the animation jack-of-all-trades Scott Christian Sava, who is currently writing and directing the brand new animated feature film Animal Crackers. Scott is known for his animated work for such studios as Cartoon Network, Disney, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Universal, Lucas Film, and more. He’s also written the excellent webcomic The Dreamland Chronicles. In epis...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 01: Interviews with Jim Cummings and Carlos Alazraqui
December 08, 2018 02:01 - 38 minutes - 70.7 MBWelcome to the 2nd episode of the new FanboyNation podcast: Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Toon-In-Talk is hosted by Whitney Grace and is dedicated to bringing you great stories straight from the animation industry. In the premiere episode, Whitney interviews famous voice actors Jim Cummings and Carlos Alazraqui. Jim has a resume as long as it is fantastic. He has voiced Winnie the Pooh, Darkwing Duck, Raymond from The Princesss and the Frog, and more. Carlos Alazraqu...
Toon-In-Talk Episode 0: Whitney Introduces Herself
November 26, 2018 03:53 - 9 minutes - 17.4 MBWelcome to the brand new FanboyNation podcast: Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. Toon-In Talk is hosted by Whitney Grace and is dedicated to bringing you great stories straight from the animation industry. In Toon-In-Talk episode zero, Whitney explains a little bit about herself and what you can expect from the show.