- Farmageddon
Farmageddon started life in 1991 as a comic strip called 'The Funny Farm' and was created by Niel Bushnell & Gordon Fraser.Bushnell & Fraser were friends from school and both wanted careers as comic artists. They began to develop an idea for a newspaper comic strip based around a farm. Initiall inspired by american comic strips such as Calvin & Hobbes and Garfield the comic soon found its own blend of humour.
The Funny Farm was published in the
Hartlepool Mail from 1992 until 1994. It was also published in a short lived Sunday paper called the News & Echo. In 1994 a new editor joined the Hartlepool Mail who didn't like The Funny Farm and cancelled its run. The demise of the comic strip coincided with Niel moving to London to pursue a career in animation.In 1997 Niel & Gordon began to develop The Funny Farm as an animated series. The pair travelled to
Annecy in France for the annual animation festival held there. A meeting withNelvana , a Canadian animation company, led to a 3 year option being agreed with Bushnell & Fraser. Three years later Nelvana failed to develop The Funny Farm further, the show and its rights returned to Bushnell & Fraser.Fast forward to 2006. After further development the project has been renamed as Farmageddon and is being developed by Niel's animation studio,
Qurios Entertainment as a 3D project.----
References
Farmageddon official website [http://www.farmageddon.tv]
Farmageddon blog [http://madtomsfarm.blogspot.com/]
Qurios Entertainment website [http://www.qurios.com]
Newcastle Journal News Article [http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0500business/businessnews/tm_headline=farmageddon-is-aimed-at-cannes&method=full&objectid=18280617&siteid=50081-name_page.html]
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