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 '70s 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.

Ever thought cartoons were too sugarcoated and geared toward children? One trip to SPIKE AND MIKES SICK AND TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION will cure that. These are not cartoons to go with your bowl of cereal on Saturday morning. You would in fact do well to down a few before viewing these vignettes.

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Home Honey I'm High!

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Summer & Tiffany

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Bowlin' Fer Souls

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