X-MEN:TAS Wrap Party 25 Years Later
Wednesday night, at the New Moon restaurant in Montrose, California, twenty of the people who worked on X-Men:TAS came together to celebrate the publication of “Previously on X-Men” 25 years …
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GETTING THE OPENING RIGHT
People love the opening titles of X-MEN:TAS. I even have a short chapter in the upcoming book about their creation. In the short time given Larry Houston and Will Meugniot …
WHO PRODUCED X-MEN:TAS?
The production of X-MEN:TAS had to be patched-together to be able to happen. With sister series BATMAN:TAS, it was just: “Hey big studio Warner Brothers — you wanna do a Batman …
YOU CAN’T ESCAPE YOUR PAST: SIDNEY’S PICTURE
We did a lot of time travel episodes in X-MEN:TAS. Always intriguing, always hard to keep the logic straight. We have all had moments when we wished we could go …
1992 SIBLING RIVALRY
This blog exists to celebrate an animated super-hero television series that we, with struggling humility and extreme prejudice, believe is among the best ever made; none better. Were there others …
X-MEN: TAS — THE BOOK!!
Yes, there’s going to be a book! We’ve resisted for two decades telling the story of how X-MEN:TAS struggled to get made and survive on the air. The 25th Anniversary of our …
THE FOX KIDS NETWORK
There was nothing random about the fact that X-MEN:TAS was successful on the Fox Kids Network (or “Fox Children’s Network,” or FCN). First, no one else would program it. Margaret …
ANIMATED TV – REBORN IN THE 1990s
I grew up in the 1960s watching some excellent cartoons. This was a bit of a cheat, since the best ones were originally very expensively made (in man-hours) for movie …
OUR TOUGHEST CRITICS
Working for nearly a year before the official premiere in January, 1993, we really didn’t know if X-MEN:TAS would survive. Animation takes a long time. Many at Marvel doubted us. …
THE TENNESSEE MAFIA: MARK AND MICHAEL (AND ERIC, AND JOHN,…)
So who wrote the 76 X-MEN:TAS stories and turned them into 40-page scripts and why? Margaret Loesch ordered the series. She and Sidney Iwanter hired me to be in charge …
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WOULD WE SUCCEED IN 1992? MARGARET BETS THE FARM.
When Fox Kids TV, upstart also-ran among TV networks, committed to the initial 13-episode series of X-MEN:TAS in February, 1992, most people in the business doubted it would succeed. In …
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