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66-609: Hastings attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, graduating in 2005. He is originally from Cumberland, Maryland . He is married to Carly Monardo. The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is a webcomic which ran from 2004 to 2017. Hastings created Dr. McNinja while he was a student; he said that the name "Dr. McNinja" came first, and was his online handle for some time, then the comic followed. The comic updated three pages each week, with Hastings employing an inker and colorist to finish

132-587: A Regular Show -themed version of the card game Fluxx on July 25, 2014. At the Cartoon Network 2015/2016 upfront, it was announced they were making Regular Show: The Movie . After accidentally creating a "Timenado", slacker groundskeepers Mordecai and Rigby go back in time and battle an evil volleyball coach in order to save the universe – and their friendship. It first screened at The Downtown Independent in Los Angeles on August 14, 2015. It

198-448: A doctor who is also a ninja, dealing with problems such as giant lumberjacks, zombie ninjas, a raptor , his own family, Dracula on the moon, and ancient tennis gods. The story covered several genres, including zombies, 80s action, and science fiction. The story is set in a fictionalized version of Hasting's home town of Cumberland. Dr. McNinja won the 2007 Web Cartoonist's Choice Award for Outstanding Superhero/Action Comic. As of 2008,

264-467: A new company, the funding was insufficient to make the game they had promised, and key staff had serious health issues. The post said, "We were foolish and bit off WAY more than we could chew". Hastings has written or co-written several works for Marvel Comics . From 2015 to 2018, after co-creating the character of Gwen Poole with Heather Antos and Jordan D. White for Howard the Duck , Hastings wrote

330-565: A post giving their reasons for the game's failure. According to the post, Fat Cat GameWorks randomly drew "Tiki" and "Ninja" as themes for their first ever game, and following that approached Hastings to license Dr. McNinja, to which Hastings agreed. The Kickstarter was only funded by accident, with a late bidder accidentally pledging $ 1500 instead of $ 15. Hastings received 15% of the Kickstarter funds. The company found working with an already developed IP to be too ambitious and too limiting for

396-457: A prequel of the movie of the same name, and the comic series Regular Show : 25 Years Later . Hastings has served as writer for several comic book miniseries for Dynamite : "The Six Million Dollar Man" based on the TV series and " Sonjaversal " which was expanded from its originally planned five issues with a sequel, "Hell Sonja". Hastings co-created webcomics for the company ShiftyLook , adapting

462-745: A small cameo in The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Boredom", along with the titular characters from Uncle Grandpa and Clarence . Mordecai and Hi-Five Ghost appear in the OK K.O.!: Let's Be Heroes special "Crossover Nexus", and a character resembling Mordecai cameos in Adventure Time episode " Ketchup ". Regular Show became an instant hit. Its first and second seasons, broadcast on Monday nights, ranked No. 1 in its time slot among all key boy demos across all of television, according to Nielsen Media Research . The pilot's premiere

528-887: A small library called Library West which houses books specifically on animation, comics, illustration and art therapy. The buildings at 132 and 136 West 21st Street have offices, classrooms and studios for art criticism , art education , art therapy , cartooning , computer art , design , illustration and writing . The building at 132 West 21st Street houses the Visible Futures Lab, a workshop featuring traditional and emerging fabrication technology, which regularly hosts artists in residence. There are several residence halls available for students at SVA, including: SVA maintains three permanent gallery locations across its campus—SVA Gramercy Gallery, SVA Flatiron Gallery, and SVA Chelsea Gallery—which exhibit work from both students and established creative professionals. Every year,

594-445: Is a "comedic animated gem worthy of being discovered for years to come." Lumbrad ended his review by recommending the show and calling it "one truly awesome cartoon with a lot of good humor to enjoy." The A.V. Club ' s critic, Alasdair Wilkins, said that compared to another of Cartoon Network's animated comedies, Adventure Time , he does not consider the series to be funny, and described it as "more pleasingly weird". He said that

660-598: Is a private for-profit art school in New York City . It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design . This school was started by Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth in 1947 as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School ; it had three teachers and 35 students, most of whom were World War II veterans who had a large part of their tuition underwritten by

726-717: Is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation . The current school logo was created in 1997 by George Tscherny for its 50th anniversary, and redesigned in 2013. In 2019 the school began the process of converting to nonprofit, with the SVA alumni organization (which is already an IRS tax-exempt entity) planning to purchase the school from its owners, who are retiring. Commencement speakers have included Susan Sontag , Carrie Mae Weems , Gloria Steinem , Roxane Gay , and John Waters . In 2024,

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792-581: Is also home to the Dusty Film & Animation Festival, held annually since 1990, which showcases the work of emerging filmmakers and animators from the college's BFA Film and Video and BFA Animation programs. Regular Show Regular Show (known as Regular Show in Space during its eighth and final season ) is an American animated sitcom created by J. G. Quintel for Cartoon Network . It ran from September 6, 2010, to January 16, 2017, over

858-716: The Gramercy Park neighborhood, on Manhattan's east side, and in the Chelsea neighborhood, on the west side. There is a residence hall on Ludlow Street, in the Lower East Side. From 1994 to 1997, it had a branch campus in Savannah, Georgia ; this was closed following a lawsuit from the Savannah College of Art and Design . The library holds books, periodicals, audio recordings, films and other media;

924-665: The Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives, which comprises the collections of Chermayeff & Geismar , Seymour Chwast , Heinz Edelmann , Milton Glaser , Steven Heller , Ed McCabe , James McMullan , Tony Palladino , George Tscherny and Henry Wolf ; and the SVA Archives, a repository for materials pertaining to the college's history. The building at 133 to 141 West 21st Street, between Sixth Avenue and Seventh Avenue in Chelsea , has studios for drawing and painting classes, and

990-564: The Nintendo Switch on October 31, 2017. Jazwares has produced an assortment of two-, six-, seven- and 10-inch licensed action figures and plush toys for the series. "Collectable Figures" have also been released, along with other themed merchandise, such as "80's Bobbleheads," "Pullback Custom Cruisers" and "Wrestling Buddies". There have been many graphic T-shirts officially licensed through clothing retailers Hot Topic , We Love Fine and Threadless . Looney Labs also released

1056-616: The existentialist isekai solo series The Unbelievable GwenPool about her, across the storylines Believe It , Head of M.O.D.O.K. , Totally In Continuity , Beyond the Fourth Wall , and Lost in the Plot . Beginning on January 28, 2015, Hastings replaced Ryan North as writer for the Adventure Time comic book series at Boom! Studios . Hastings also wrote the Wet Hot American Summer graphic novel,

1122-551: The 2011 Fox animated comedy Allen Gregory ; and the 2012 film The Hunger Games . In 2013, Beyoncé held a release party and screening for her record-setting, self-titled visual album at the theatre. Community partners that have used the theatre include the Tribeca and GenArt film festivals, Mayor Michael Bloomberg 's PlaNYC environmental initiative, and the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting . The theater

1188-651: The AM PM . The former was one of the winners of the 2005 Nicktoons Film Festival and received international attention after being broadcast on Nicktoons Network . Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed young artists to create pilots with no notes, which would possibly be optioned as shows. Regular Show received critical acclaim and became one of Cartoon Network's most successful original series. However, it has also garnered controversy for its dark humor , sexual innuendos , violence, and mature themes. The show

1254-687: The Best Around ", " Mississippi Queen ", " Don't You (Forget About Me) " and " A Holly Jolly Christmas ". The show also used several non-'80s songs, such as " Pale Blue Eyes " by The Velvet Underground in Regular Show: The Movie and " Heroes " by David Bowie in the series finale. Another notable song used in the show is "Here Comes a Regular" by The Replacements , a band often considered as underground. The show also produced original songs that were used in episodes, which were generally composed by Mothersbaugh and written by one of

1320-698: The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and the National Association of Schools of Art and Design . Its second president, David Rhodes (appointed in 1978), is the son of founder Silas Rhodes. The interior design BFA is accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation, the art therapy MPS is approved by the American Art Therapy Association , and the art education MA

1386-610: The SVA Chelsea Gallery stages an exhibition for its Masters Series recipient, who are honored with both an award and retrospective exhibition. The 2022 Masters Series Recipient was photographer, MacArthur Genius Grant -, and Pulitzer Prize -winner Lynsey Addario for her documentation of civilian life in conflict zones; the retrospective was covered by publications such as the New York Times , The Guardian , and Vanity Fair . The Theatre, also known as

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1452-770: The SVA Theatre, is at 333 West 23rd Street, between Eighth Avenue and Ninth Avenue, in Chelsea. The site was formerly called the 23rd Street Theatre, and served as the home of the Roundabout Theatre Company , from 1972 until 1984; when their lease expired, the venue was converted into a movie theatre, the Clearview Chelsea West Cinema. It was purchased in 2008, renovated, and reopened in January 2009. Milton Glaser designed

1518-501: The Season 1 premiere's figures. It gained 2.067 million views, but it marked an increase from the Season 1 finale, which had 2.028 million viewers. The Season 3 premiere, "Stick Hockey," saw a bigger decline in viewers, recording 2 million views. As the series continued, though, its ratings grew for a short time; the Season 4 premiere, "Exit 9B", was watched by 3.047 million viewers—a significant increase from previous seasons. However, as

1584-529: The U.S. government's G.I. Bill . It was renamed the School of Visual Arts in 1956 and offered its first degrees in 1972. In 1983, it introduced a Master of Fine Arts in painting , drawing and sculpture . The school has a faculty of more than 1,100 and a student body of over 3,000. It offers 11 undergraduate and 22 graduate degree programs, and is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of

1650-422: The animatic and asked the crew if they wanted to use some of the songs for the finished episodes. Quintel said that the songs are chosen for their suitability for the scene, whether they sound good and if their licensing is affordable. Quintel enjoyed using the songs in the episodes, saying he thought adult viewers may remember them and younger viewers might appreciate older music. Songs in the show include " You're

1716-425: The animation style, characters and use of motifs. In January 2013, Boom! Studios announced that it would develop a comic book series based on the show and that KC Green would be writing the script and Allison Strejlav would be in charge of the illustrations. The first issue was officially released on May 15, 2013. A series of original graphic novels began publication in 2014, as well. The first, titled Hydration ,

1782-571: The animation. The series is rated TV-PG-V . Cartoon Network told Quintel early on that they wanted to "age it up from the TV-Y7 stuff we'd been doing in the past". This direction led the crew to use adult-oriented humor with innuendos and drug and alcohol references. One of the program's storyboard artists, Calvin Wong, said he enjoys the limitations set by writing for the show since the adult-oriented jokes that are approved are satisfying. The plots of

1848-673: The characters developed for his student films The Naïve Man from Lolliland (2005) and 2 in the AM PM (2006). Both originated as part of the 48-Hour Film Project, in which students put words into a hat, pulled out one word at midnight and spent a weekend developing ideas for a film. Quintel attended college with Thurop Van Orman and Pendleton Ward , who both went on to work at Cartoon Network Studios with Quintel; Van Orman created The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and Ward created Adventure Time . Quintel concurrently worked on Camp Lazlo and as creative director on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack while completing his degree. He

1914-410: The course of eight seasons and 244 episodes . The series follows the daily lives of two 23-year old friends, Mordecai , a blue jay and Rigby , a raccoon , who work at a local park as groundskeepers . Their coworkers are Skips , an immortal yeti , Muscle Man , a green-skinned overweight man, and Hi-Five Ghost , a small ghost. Other characters include Pops , the lollipop -shaped owner of

1980-527: The delight of park manager Pops (Marin). Their other coworkers include an overweight green male named Muscle Man (Marin) and a ghost named Hi-Five Ghost (Quintel), who also serve as their rivals. Regular Show largely grew out of creator J. G. Quintel's life and experiences in college. Quintel attended the California Institute of the Arts, and many of the characters on Regular Show are based on

2046-619: The episode "Dumptown U.S.A." on June 26, 2015, and ended with the half-hour episode "Rigby's Graduation Day Special" on June 30, 2016. The eighth and final season, titled Regular Show in Space , premiered on September 26, 2016, with the episode "One Space Day at a Time" and ended on January 16, 2017, with "A Regular Epic Final Battle". Mordecai and Rigby had cameo appearances on the Uncle Grandpa episode "Pizza Eve", along with other Cartoon Network characters from currently running and ended cartoons. Mordecai, Rigby and Hi-Five Ghost make

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2112-464: The episode "The Power" and ended on November 22, 2010, with "Mordecai and the Rigbys". The second season premiered on November 29, 2010, with the episode "Ello Gov'nor" and ended on August 1, 2011, with "Karaoke Video". The third season premiered on September 19, 2011, with the episode "Stick Hockey" and concluded on September 3, 2012, with "Bad Kiss". The fourth season premiered on October 1, 2012, with

2178-520: The episode was performed. When finished, the episode was sent to Sabre Media Studios back in California. Music and sound effects were created, and the final episode is mixed and completed. The process allowed the production team to work concurrently on dozens of episodes at different stages of production. Although most modern animation had switched to hybrid methods such as the Cintiq , Regular Show

2244-450: The episodes were influenced by Quintel's and the writers' personal experiences, such as performing prank telephone calls or accepting an eating challenge from a restaurant. The show often references 1980s culture, using music and electronic devices from that era because many factors from the decade left a positive influence on Quintel. The show also makes references to modern social trends such as viral internet videos . The voice acting of

2310-489: The episodes' plots can occasionally be too complex to explore completely in the show's 11 minutes and that the usual story setup can make some stories feel structurally the same as others. Wilkins said he considers the show at its best when it focuses on the jokes, the character moments and inventive ways to use animation. Kevin McFarland, also of The A.V. Club , said he considers the series a thrill to watch; he complimented

2376-477: The half-hour episode "Exit 9B" and concluded on August 12, 2013, with "Steak Me Amadeus". The fifth season premiered on September 2, 2013, with the episodes "Laundry Woes" and "Silver Dude" and concluded on August 14, 2014, with "Real Date". The sixth season premiered on October 9, 2014, with the episode "Maxin' and Relaxin ' " and ended on June 25, 2015, with "Dumped at the Altar". The seventh season premiered with

2442-784: The idea for the pilot, and Craig McCracken and Rob Renzetti liked his presentation. Regular Show was one of two series from the project that were green-lit – the other being Secret Mountain Fort Awesome , based on the Cartoonstitute short Uncle Grandpa , which in turn became its own series later on. The project was eventually scrapped and never premiered on television. The character of Mordecai embodies Quintel during his college years, specifically at CalArts; Quintel said, "That's that time when you're hanging out with your friends and getting into stupid situations, but you're also taking it seriously enough." The character of Rigby

2508-486: The latter was very influential to Quintel and would later influence the humor in Regular Show . The plots of Regular Show episodes generally begin with a basic problem that the characters must overcome. While the protagonists work on their task, a magical, supernatural or strange element appears and complicates the initially simple problem. The writers decided to follow this narrative structure to take advantage of

2574-454: The pages. Hastings spent about 40 hours every week on the comic, spending one day per week writing the script, then four days drawing one page each day. He estimated that each page took 3–4 hours to draw. Creating Dr. McNinja was Chris' full-time job; while the comic is free online, Hastings made money by selling books and T-shirts. Books collecting the webcomic were published by TopatoCo and Dark Horse Comics . The comic follows Dr. McNinja,

2640-434: The park, and the duo's boss Benson , a gumball machine . Mordecai and Rigby spend their days slacking off and avoiding work to entertain themselves by any means, which unexpectedly leads to surreal , extreme, and supernatural misconduct. Many of Regular Show 's characters were loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts : The Naïve Man from Lolliland and 2 in

2706-420: The pilot, he considered asking Mothersbaugh to create the music for the show. The episode's animatic was sent to Mothersbaugh, along with a request for him to join the show's staff and crew. Regular Show also made use of licensed songs—mostly from the 1980s—which began when Quintel and the staff writers started recording the animatics using copyrighted songs for the montage scenes. The network executives watched

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2772-662: The school received an honorary "SVA Way" co-naming at the intersection of 23rd St. and 3rd Ave. in recognition of its institutional presence in the neighborhood since 1960. The continuing education division offers noncredit courses from most departments; a selection of advertising , branding , cartooning , copywriting , illustration and marketing courses taught in Spanish ; professional development and corporate training courses; and summer residency programs. The school offers short-term study abroad programs in various creative fields. The school has several buildings in

2838-408: The series is relatively low-key, and the intention was to make most of the characters sound natural and conversational. Quintel wanted to make the show listenable and given contrast to most other cartoons, which often are difficult for adults to listen to. The main cast consists of voice acting veterans Mark Hamill , who portrays Skips, and Roger Craig Smith , who plays Thomas. William Salyers plays

2904-550: The series went on, the ratings would decline, and by the last season, most episodes had under 1 million viewers. "What I like best about Regular Show is that in the midst of a gaggle of memorable regular characters, zany recurring minor characters, and a fantastical animation style, it still manages to create motifs for its condensed themes." Kevin McFarland, The A.V. Club Regular Show received critical acclaim and became one of Cartoon Network's most successful original series. A reviewer from IGN , R.L. Shaffer, called

2970-416: The series. The show's soundtrack comprises original music composed by Mark Mothersbaugh as well as licensed songs. While preparing for the beginning of the show, Quintel looked for young, independent comic artists to comprise the show's storyboard artists; he thought that the style would closely match that of Regular Show . He looked through blogs and convention panels for the "total package", which he said

3036-438: The show as "offbeat sense of humor with a lot of randomness that makes its title both peculiar and hilarious" and compared it to the original Looney Tunes shorts and other cartoons—including The Powerpuff Girls , Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Bravo —that Cartoon Network has produced. He wrote that the network has found "animated gold with Regular Show , which is too offbeat and unique to be called regular" and that it

3102-469: The show zany, absurd, bizarre and hilarious. He praised the show's writing and said that it included "snappy dialogue, odd characters, and clever stories—each more irreverent than the last— Regular Show never ceases to tickle the funny bone." He finished his review by calling the show "a pretty awesome piece of refreshing off-the-wall comedy" and wrote that it's "humorously animated, brazenly silly and almost always funny." DVD Talk' s Neil Lumbrad described

3168-608: The show's dialogue sound natural. The series regularly used guest voice actors for recurring characters, such as Steven Blum , Courtenay Taylor , David Ogden Stiers , Robin Atkin Downes , Jeff Bennett , Jennifer Hale , David Kaye , Fred Tatasciore , Matthew Yang King , and Julian Holloway . Each episode of Regular Show took about nine months to complete. Quintel and his 35-member team developed each episode at Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, California . The script

3234-422: The site received about 110,000 unique visitors each day. In 2015, he began a storyline entitled "The End", the last story of the comic. Hastings said in an interview that he had decided to "pick a time to quit so that I'd know it was coming and I wouldn't burn out", so he could give a satisfying ending, though even then he said "I picked the right time, I'm definitely kind of starting to get tired of this". Hastings

3300-485: The staff's storyboard artists. "Summertime Loving, Loving in the Summer (Time)" was written by staff member Sean Szeles and appeared in the episode "This Is My Jam" (season 2, episode 13). Most episodes of Regular Show last 11 minutes; episodes are usually paired together to fill a half-hour program slot. 244 episodes in eight seasons have been completed and broadcast. The first season premiered on September 6, 2010, with

3366-578: The stylistic elements of Joe Murray 's Rocko's Modern Life and Camp Lazlo as working their way into his style. Video games Street Fighter , Shadowrun and ToeJam & Earl —which Quintel played when he was a child—also inspired the series, as did some British television programs. Quintel's interest in British television was influenced by his British roommate at CalArts, who introduced him to The League of Gentlemen , The IT Crowd , Little Britain , The Office and The Mighty Boosh ;

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3432-481: The theatre's renovated interior and exterior, including the sculpture situated atop its marquee. The 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m ) facility houses two separate auditoriums, one with 265 seats and one with 480, and hosts class meetings, lectures, screenings and other public events. It has also hosted the red-carpet New York première of Ethan Hawke's The Daybreakers and a diverse list of world premières, ranging from Lucy Liu 's 2010 feature documentary Redlight , to

3498-411: The trade as being pencils, pens, white-out and occasionally lightboxes and electric erasers". Regular Show has no regular theme music; instead, at the beginning of each episode, a blurred sound (provided by Quintel) followed by a ticking clock is heard over the title cards. The main composer of the series is Mark Mothersbaugh , one of the founding members of the band Devo . As Quintel was developing

3564-615: The video games Galaga and Dig Dug into comics. In 2018, Hastings launched a Kickstarter for a graphic novel called Draculagate to be co-created by Hastings and Branson Reese. The project successfully received funding of $ 44,772 on November 4 2018. The last update was posted on June 13 2022. In 2019, Hastings began writing the webcomic Never Enough: The Wario Diaries. Since 2021, Hastings collaborated with Scott Cawthon on making graphic novel adaptations based on Five Nights at Freddy's books. School of Visual Arts The School of Visual Arts New York City ( SVA NYC )

3630-476: The voice of Rigby; Janie Haddad portrays Margaret; Quintel's former CalArts classmate Sam Marin voices Benson, Pops and Muscle Man; and Quintel portrays Mordecai and Hi-Five Ghost. Members of the production staff have voiced several characters throughout the series, including Minty Lewis, Toby Jones, Andress Salaff, and Matt Price. The Regular Show cast recorded their lines together in group as opposed to individual recording sessions for each actor; this helped make

3696-432: Was already ramping up his paid work outside of Dr. McNinja in preparation for the end of the comic. Dr. McNinja and Axe Cop had a cross-over series in 2010, co-written by Hastings. A Kickstarter campaign was launched in 2012 for a spinoff video game to be called Dr. McNinja’s Radical Adventures. The Kickstarter was successfully funded, but no game was ever produced. In 2015, the game company, Fat Cat GameWorks, made

3762-434: Was described as "far more low-fi" and was animated traditionally by hand using paper, which was then digitally composited and painted with digital ink and paint . Although Cintiqs were initially optioned to be used for the program, Quintel stated that he felt more comfortable working on paper, considering it to be more organic and more representative of each artist's individual style. Board artist Calvin Wong said, "the tools of

3828-416: Was greenlit, with Quintel returning as showrunner. The series revolves around the daily lives of two 23-year-old friends – Mordecai (voiced by J. G. Quintel ) and Rigby ( William Salyers ) – who work as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days avoiding work to entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson (Sam Marin) and their coworker Skips ( Mark Hamill ), but to

3894-459: Was illustrated in rough hand-drawn images, known as storyboards . The storyboards were then animated and mixed with the corresponding dialogue to create the animatic , which was then sent to be approved by the network. The show's assets – backgrounds, character designs, props, etc. – were then assembled to be sent to Saerom Animation in South Korea , where the actual animation production of

3960-499: Was in development at the time, titled Regular Show: Mordecai and Rigby in 8-Bit Land . It was developed by WayForward Technologies and published by D3 Publisher for Nintendo 3DS . The video game was released on October 29, 2013. Mordecai and Rigby became playable characters in a video game called Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers , which was released for the Nintendo 3DS , PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on November 8, 2016, and

4026-432: Was later invited to pitch for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute , a project to showcase short films created without the interference of network executives and focus testing . Quintel returned to the characters from his films, put them together with newer characters and created a pilot. Quintel wanted to present a visual pitch rather than a verbal one, believing the idea would make little sense otherwise. He storyboarded

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4092-400: Was nominated for several awards, including seven Annie Awards , six Primetime Emmy Awards – one of which it won for the episode "Eggscellent" (season 3, episode 17) – and three British Academy Children's Awards . A film adaptation based on the series, titled Regular Show: The Movie , premiered in 2015. On June 12, 2024, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that a new Regular Show series

4158-441: Was randomly developed when Quintel drew a raccoon hula-hooping. He liked the design and developed the character of Rigby to be far less responsible than his companion. Episodes are produced using storyboarding and hand-drawn animation, and each episode takes roughly nine months to create. Quintel recruited several independent comic book artists to draw the show's animated elements; their style matched closely with Quintel's ideas for

4224-462: Was the ability to write and draw, something that many independent comic book artists possess. In addition, Quintel attended many open shows at CalArts, an eight-hour festival of student animation. The style and sensibility of Regular Show was difficult to work with in the beginning; the artists struggled to create a natural, sitcom-like sound for the series. Growing up, Quintel was inspired by The Simpsons and Beavis and Butt-Head , and credits

4290-401: Was watched by 2.097 million viewers. For the following episodes of the first season, viewership increased by over 10% from the time period of the previous year. For instance, the entry was viewed by 1.339 million children aged 2–11, a 65% increase from the previous year. It was also watched by 716,000 children aged 9–14, a 43% increase. The Season 2 premiere, "Ello Gov'nor," marked a decline from

4356-558: Was written by Rachel Connor and illustrated by Tessa Stone. It was followed by Noir Means Noir, Buddy (2015), A Clash of Consoles (2016), Wrasslesplosion (2017), The Meatening (2018) and Comic Conned (2018). On November 9, 2011, a game called "Nightmare-Athon" was released in App Store for iOS . On January 24, 2013, a game called "Ride 'Em Rigby" was released in iOS. On April 8, 2013, J. G. Quintel announced on his Twitter page that an official Regular Show video game

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