Long before Adult Swim, MTV’s Liquid Television and even most of the cartoons that penetrated your sugar riddled brain on Saturday mornings, Spike & Mike were traveling the globe introducing audiences to the joy and magic of animation.
“We were with Pixar before Steve Jobs was with Pixar,” Spike said from his office in California. “We were doing shows with Tim Burton. The list goes on and on. I can honestly say we were there first with our fingers on the pulse before anyone in the world with Sick and Twisted as well creating a new genre of twisted animation and showing that it can be edgy and part of popular culture.”
Craig “Spike” Decker and Mike Gribble, the founders and hosts of the roving Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation and Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, had such a passion for short animated films that they brought them to audiences all over the world. Spike continues to tour internationally with his newest batches of animated movies as one-half of the group after Gribble passed away in 1994 from pancreatic cancer.
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