She had been a groupie for the Steve Miller Band, sung with Joe Ely and performed in off-Broadway rock musicals before making a living as a visual artist. What makes Finn such a compelling character is that he is innocent and good-hearted, always willing to help out a friend or rescue a princess. Even his mistakes come from an ultimately pure and well-intentioned place. Just superawkward. Eventually, Ward found a place where a superawkward kid could fit in if he was talented: the California Institute of the Arts, better known as CalArts.
There, Ward met a coterie of artists and animators who shared his obsession with cartoons and comics. Later, Ward would bring Muto on as a storyboard artist and, after quitting Adventure Time , train him to take his place as showrunner.
Cartoons show on Nickelodeon, bringing along his CalArts friends. One of those shows was a seven-minute short called Adventure Time , which racked up over 3 million views on YouTube within a year of its release in Until last year, he continued to live in Burbank with four roommates. With his obligations to Adventure Time now reduced, Ward is looking for his next creative challenge. He wants to write an Adventure Time movie and create an original video game.
As an example of what he can handle, Ward shows me several sketchy black-and-white shorts he made with a friend called Animation Pals. He sighs and looks down at his stomach. Make stuff on my own and fall asleep. Illustration by Pen Ward. Battle Cards: check it out. You can buy 'em really cheaply on the internet. Anyway, that was an inspiration for the world they live in.
I remember there was a map card in that set. Wired: Very interesting, as that's my very next question! You tend to play around a lot with the basics of fantasy adventure and these dungeon-crawl-type tropes. The jelly cube? We're blazing new trails for our kind here!
Something that's often referenced — but usually fairly indirectly — is the Great Mushroom War. Did you have any trouble shopping around a cartoon property that's essentially based in a post-apocalyptic setting? Ward: Oh, that wasn't part of the bible. That wasn't one of the selling points. That's just… it's all just stuff that's sort of in the background. It doesn't have a lot to do with the characters or what they care about at all.
I think it's just sort of a cool setting for these characters. And they don't really pay attention to all the post-apocalypse stuff around them. It's just a part of their normal world. Finn and Jake dig up all these things. There was an episode in the first season where they had flame throwers, and they were just finding loot in icebergs by burning these chunks of ice that were floating up to the shore.
But they were just looking for stuff that they could put in their house, just appliances. They weren't thinking about the end of the world; they were just shopping for stuff. Jake found a bunch of baby shoes that he didn't want. Wired: Who do you see as the show's target audience? Who are you making Adventure Time for? Ward: We're just making it for ourselves. I feel like all the writers and board artists that are writing all the jokes and dialog, we're all just trying to make ourselves laugh and just keep ourselves interested.
Everyone's so brilliant and creative who's writing and creating the show that to write it for anyone else would be boring for them and they wouldn't want to work on the show anymore. I think everyone's just trying to make themselves laugh and keep themselves entertained primarily. Ward: Yeah. I hope that anyone can enjoy it. Maybe people who are wouldn't know what to think about it, but I don't know. I'm not super concerned about it.
Wired: I ask because this is a show I'm watching with my 7-year-old, at least a couple of times a week. And I guess there's something special going on to keep us both interested. Ward: That's really satisfying to hear. I hear that from adults at San Diego Comic-Con — coming up to me with their kids getting the toys signed, and the dads and moms will start talking to me about how they watch it with their kids. Show all Hide all Show by Hide Show Writer 17 credits.
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