Student animator Lewiss Needham interviews me about my animated serial Teddy & Anna. I worked obsessively on Teddy from roughly 2000-2004, running out of steam at Episode 7. Hopefully I’ll finish the storyline someday, though I don’t know if it will be in animated form.

Click through to the school’s main animation page to see student work and an interview with Naoki Mitsuse (creator of many Flash series and an inspiration to me when I started on Teddy.)

I also have a comic starring those two that needs finishing. I left them up in the air (they’re piloting a dirigible), getting hit by lightning from a giant Tesla coil. Here’s the first page of the story.

Brian was interviewed by Lowell Sun reporter Kathleen Deeley about his large-format comic book serial, “The Big Wheel,” featuring characters from his animated web serial Teddy & Anna. Each page of “The Big Wheel” art is ink and marker on paper 4 1/2″ feet tall by 3 1/2″ feet wide. The story was serialized in the windows of COOL, the Cultural Organization of Lowell, a nonprofit arts advocacy group.

Brian was interviewed for the recurring Globe feature, “The Process”, written by Louise Kennedy. Kennedy spoke with Brian about the process he uses in creating Teddy & Anna, his animated web serial.

Read the article online (archived, requires registration and fee.)