They're funny under all sorts of circumstances.'' My rule is, someone shows up from 'Sesame Street,' work with them. ''The people coming out of there are the Dr. ''Mo is a writer for 'Sesame Street': that's the 'Saturday Night Live' for preschoolers,'' Ms. The irony-laden animated series, starring a nonverbal sheep who escapes from a farm and finds a laughably affordable apartment in a nice neighborhood, is the latest to get approval from the network, which is not only home to such original series as ''Johnny Bravo,'' ''Dexter's Laboratory'' and ''The Powerpuff Girls'' but is also one of the hottest networks on cable. Willems and a phalanx of artists, writers and computer types are now churning out the storyboards for the first 13 episodes of ''Sheep in the Big City,'' which is to bow on the Cartoon Network this fall. His creator: Mo Willems, a New York University film major and onetime downtown performance artist who had a dream of taking an animated wool-bearer out of the barnyard and into the limelight.įast-forward almost two years to a bustling studio in SoHo, where the 32-year-old Mr. Over that plate of pommes frites in June 1998, a baa-ing cartoon character took his first tentative steps toward stardom. Hardly anyone feeds you during a pitch, but it's a good idea.'' Simensky, vice president of original animation for the Cartoon Network. ''Mo pitched us an idea, and it was so silly and so funny, we just laughed,'' recalled Ms. And the French fries weren't bad, either. ONE thing was certain: Linda Simensky loved the sheep.
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