Have you heard the news?? The Chuck Jones Gallery is extremely excited to welcome Peanuts cartoon animator and Emmy Award-winning director, Larry Leichliter, THIS Friday, November 11th at 5:00 PM PDT for a virtual Creativeside Chat.

Larry Leichliter will chat with host extraordinaire Ben Olson about his animation influences and his over 30 years working on the animation of Charlie Brown, his beagle Snoopy, and the whole Peanuts gang.  Larry Leichliter will draw and reveal his special Original Drawing (gift with qualified purchase, ask your consultant for details) during the Creativeside Chat event.

Leichliter got his first job in animation at Hanna Barbara in late 1969 and was there in the early ’70s, where he worked as an assistant animator on cartoons like Scooby Doo, Harlem Globetrotters, and Josie and the Pussycats. He found this introduction to the world of animation exciting, because not only did he work with artists of amazing talent, but it was his first time working with people from all over the world.​​​  Since then, Larry has animated over 30 Peanuts cartoon specials and tv show episodes as an animator. 

He has worked as the director of Nickelodeon’s Hey, Arnold, in addition to directing episodes of Fairly Odd Parents, Chalk Zone, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Mighty B. At Cartoon Network, he directed Time Squad and was supervising director of Adventure Time, for which he received four Emmy nominations and won a BAFTA award (British Academy of Film & TV). In 2015, he won an Emmy for his work on Over the Garden Wall, a miniseries.

A great influence on his work and love of animation was when he went to the Tourney of Animation at the LA Museum of Art and saw the work of German abstract animator and filmmaker Oskar Fischinger. Fischinger was creating abstract animation years before anyone else and was a huge influence on the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor segment of Fantasia. 

→ Want to learn more about Larry and hear stories from his career animating Peanuts cartoons? Join us virtually on Friday, November 11, 2022, at 5:00 PM PT for this special virtual event. VIEW EVENT DETAILS and ZOOM LINK HERE.