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Mellow Manor Productions, Inc. was founded by Craig ‘Spike’ Decker and Mike Gribble, popularly known as “Spike & Mike®.” Mellow Manor is named after the famed Victorian house in Riverside where Spike, Mike and many others lived in a communal setting. This was an ‘Animal House‘ before National Lampoon made theirs famous. Although Mike Gribble passed away in August of 1994, Spike continues to produce touring theatrical festivals of animated short film collections with the highest standards of artistic and subversive excellence.
The original mission of Mellow Manor Productions was to promote underground bands with retro animated short films. In the early 70’s Spike and Mike began promoting local band “Sterno and the Flames,” a band in which Spike sang bass vocals. Later, they presented special shows such as all-night horror-thons, an evening of Star Trek bloopers and Midnight rock & roll films such as Jimmy Plays Berkeley and Quadraphenia. They would also present full-length films like Slaughterhouse 5 and King of Hearts. At those shows, they would open with Betty Boop and Superman animated shorts. They also picked up other shorts that became cult favorites such as Bambi Meets Godzilla by Marv Newland. The demand to see the shorts soon eclipsed the popularity of the band and the other films. Spike and Mike knew they were onto an unfulfilled niche and in 1977 they began promoting animated shorts full-time.
The Sundance Film Festival, Cannes International Film Festival, Australia’s Flickerfest Short Film Festival, and the International Festival of Animation in Annecy, France, Slamdance and San Diego Comic-Con have hosted Spike and Mike shows over the past years. In the spring of 2000, Spike and Mike’s Sick & Twisted animations were featured on tour with the rock band KORN. Abrams Books have recently released an in- depth book on the history and evolution of Spike and Mike entitled “Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivals” by Jerry Beck, now available in bookstores. Spike and Mike have teamed up with Shout Factory to release “Full Frontal” and “Unprotected”, two brand new DVD’s now available, featuring the very best ‘toons of the 2001, 2002 and 2003 festivals. Immoral and Depraved (2009) are the newest edition to the Spike & Mike collection and Contagious (2006) came out before. We are hoping to screen some new pieces from Weird Al next year and Fox International will be including Spike and Mike on their channel in the U.K.
Currently, Spike and Mike’s premieres a new Sick and Twisted show every summer at the San Diego Comic-Con. Each Festival plays in over 50 cities across the United States and Canada.
Spike and Mike, January 31, 1978
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Spike and Mike's Pixar History
Spike and Mike produced and premiered the first films of:
-Pete Docter, "Palm Springs", "Winter" & "Next Door"
-Andrew Stanton, "A Story" & "Somewhere in the Arctic", which helped him secure his post at the legendary Pixar Animation Studios.
Theatrically premiered first shorts including student works by:
-John Lasseter, "Tin Toy", "Lady and the Lamp" & "Nightmare"
Including first screenings of:
- "The Adventures of Andre and Wally B"
- "Luxo Jr."
- "Reds Dream"
- "Knick Knack"
- "Geri's Game"
- "For the Birds"
It all started in 1977 with Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation and later the popular and infamous Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted. What Spike & Mike have accomplished is quite remarkable, if you really think about it. Creating a whole COTTAGE INDUSTRY producing, promoting & distributing their own theatrical as well as their own funding, marketing, 35mm lab conversion, producing many of their own shorts, creating yearly sequels that are as good or better than the previous year all without a publicist. US theatrical premiers that include Wallace & Gromit, Beavis & Butthead, the first films of Shane Acker, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Pixar, Bill Plympton, Danny Antonucci, Eric Fogel, Breehn Burns, Tim Burton, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Chris Wedge, Kenn Navarro, Marv Newland, Mike Johnson & Nick Park.
They created a 90 min feature out of shorts by branding it Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted or Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation the movie.
Spike & Mike have also appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, San Diego International Comic Convention, Annecy Animation Festival, KORN Tour, Stuttgart, AnimaMundi, Taiwan Animation Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Slamdance and etc.
Spike, now on his own after Mike passed away in 1994, is always searching for the next great talent, acquiring films daily and exploring opportunities on the internet, starting with his ass-kicking new website. They hope to develop series and features based on content in their extensive library using the Spike and Mike and Sick and Twisted brands. Spike and Mike will NEVER go away!!!
“Spike & Mike are like Disney with tits!”
- Robbin Williams, You know… the actor guy!
John Lasseter credits Spike & Mike in being the one of the first to believe in him & Pixar before others.
“The notoriety of Spike & Mike has caused them to be dubbed the kings of tasteless toons by animation industry giants.”
- Trevor Groth, Sundance Film Festival 2000
“If the animation world ever had a Rock Star, Spike would be it.”
- Kenn Navarro, co-creator of Happy Tree Friends
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