So many great animators got their start at Spike and Mike’s Twisted Festival of Animation. The first US screening of Wallace & Gromit was at a Spike and Mike’s event, and Mike Judge, the creator of King of the Hill, saw his short Frog Baseball premiered in 1992 at the festival, which wound up turning into Beavis and Butt-head.

As attendees will likely recall, the wildly-popular Flash-animated series Happy Tree Friends has been regularly featured in the Sick and Twisted festival. Kenn Navarro, co-creator of HTF, knows the impact Spike and Mike’s has had on our industry. “If the animation world ever had a rock star, Spike would be it,” Navarro said of festival co-founder Craig ‘Spike’ Decker.

At last month’s Comic-con event in San Diego, I got a chance to interview Spike about his Gauntlet show, his new website and his upcoming 3D show.

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A big thanks to Jason Costello and Mondo Media for the help with the interview.

Tags: Happy Tree Friends, Interview

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