![]() “And we had a bit of a bigger team for the background designs. “I love what Solis did with Season 1, but the thing I really love about what we were able to do with Gary and the visuals in Season 2 was breathe new life into the show to open up the world-building as well,” explains O’Keefe. O’Keefe created Doomlands – a beer-soaked, high-octane cartoon on The Roku Channel where Little served as one of the show’s main writers – and joined the Gary and His Demons team as a director for the new season. Honestly, some of those conversations probably affected the direction of Season 2, because Season 1 was so cynical and so dark.”Īnother exciting perk of adding Season 2 was Little getting the chance to work with his Doomlands friend, Josh O’Keefe, a director and art director at Look Mom! Productions. “But they’ve all been really cute and sweet, and I cherish a lot of screenshotted conversations I have with them, talking about how they are hoping for different characters to have good lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Through VRV, we accumulated a lot of anime fans, which was a very specific kind of fandom that I wasn't used to,” he explains. The second season, Little notes, takes a slightly more lighthearted and optimistic approach to Gary’s journey, which was somewhat influenced by the endearing fan messages received after the release of the first season. It's exciting, and it's fun, and I hope people like it.” Now, we get to play with this different dimension of Gary. I’m famously canceled after one season in all my endeavors, and it was really fun to be able to explore the next stage of this story. “It's such a rare thing in my life to get to make a Season 2. “The main thing I'm excited for, in terms of people seeing all of it, is the growth from one season to the next,” he says. But getting to release on its first major streaming platform brings the possibility of a larger audience, which Little is thrilled to reach. In Canada, the series was streamed on CBC Gem Comedy Central began airing it in the United Kingdom and, in Australia, Gary and His Demons was added to ABC iView and premiered on ABC Comedy. in summer 2018, then debuted on Syfy in 2019 and aired on El Rey Network as part of the Mondo Animation Hour. The first season streamed weekly on VRV in the U.S. The series has made its way around the world via various networks. It was just Tim and me in a broom closet at the old Solace Animation Studio, nose to nose with a two-sided microphone between us while we just riffed, and Tim said a lot of sad orphan things.” Actually, that was the first thing we ever did for the show. Tim Gilbert was so brilliant in that scene. “And just from that you should know where the story is headed. “Yeah, that was our first scene,” says Little, referring to the first episode of Season 1, where Gary nearly slices off the arm of an orphan boy he highly suspects is a demon. Gary, a demon hunter, struggles to keep interest in the Earth-saving duty he never asked for and doesn't want while grieving the death of his fiancé and trying desperately to distinguish orphaned children from disguised demons. It was a small, silly idea that grew through the help of many others.”įirst released in 2018, Gary and His Demons features an eager-to-retire Gary who has been burdened by his "Chosen One" status for 30 years, backed by a team of specialists he can't relate to. Little continues, “To me, it was less about the demon hunter part and was more just about feeling trapped. “One of them was about a demon hunter who was supposed to be allowed to retire, but then he can’t because the company hasn’t found a replacement.” “I'd always wanted to do an animated show and I was sitting in a hospital waiting room, because I had just broken my ankle, and just rattled off five quick ideas to Josh,” says Little. In fact, Little – an award-winning member of the Halifax-based sketch comedy group Picnicface, a voice actor on shows like Ollie’s Pack and Doomlands, and writer for series like Doomsday Brothers and Cupcake & Dino – says it was the versatility that comes with marrying animation and comedy that first attracted him when Josh Bowen at Blue Ant reached out about creating an animated TV series. “Many ideas for the show got pitched to me and my response was, ‘No! No! That’s too complicated.’ But eventually, I’d get won over, thank God.” “I care about the rules so much and I don’t know why,” says Little, whose series recently started streaming on Prime Video Canada. When crediting the success of his cult classic adult animation series Gary and His Demons, actor and producer Mark Little claims it was the combination of “one stubborn mule and as many giving partners as possible.”
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