Book Festival Clarifications/Corrections

Two things have come to my attention this week, both erroneous, and as such, require some clarification and correction. First, the clarification:

On the Decatur Book Festival website, the description for the workshop I'm giving indicates that I was a writer on the television show Futurama. This is incorrect. To clarify: I did work on the original 72 episodes of the show, but strictly in a production capacity, as the design coordinator at Rough Draft Studios, the animation house that produced the animation for the show. This is where I cut my teeth in the animation business, and learned just about everything I know about producing a quality cartoon. And while I wish I could say that I was a Futurama writer, I can't, because I wasn't, and I don't want to pass myself off as something I'm not. For anyone contemplating signing up for the workshop because of this erroneous information, I apologize for the confusion - but I still think if you're interested in animation writing, you'll get something out of the event.

And now to the correction: On page 20 of the Decatur Book Festival circular distributed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, I am described as "Cartoon Network's Elliot Blake." This is incorrect as well. I was employed by Turner Broadcasting's GameTap, which is a sister company of Cartoon Network, but I've never worked for Cartoon Network. I can only guess that since I'm giving a workshop on writing for animation, an assumption was made that I must work for Cartoon Network. I'd like to work for them, sure. But I don't. Once again, I apologize for the confusion.

Rock on.

-EB