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A Brief Exchange
With John R. Dilworth

Ed, Edd n Eddy

1999-2009

March 5, 2014

JXP: Hello Mr. Dilworth.My name is Aristotle Michaelangelo from Facebook. I'm setting up a website for cartoons to promote my video game that I'm producing. I'm interviewing famous cartoonists around the world and post them on my website and I would like to interview you because you created a favorite show of mine; Courage the Cowardly Dog.

   JR: Michangelo,Thank you for your support of my work. First let me share with you that this year is the 20th Anniversary of THE DIRDY BIRDY. I am making a "director's cut" edition with one minute of never seen footage which I will have ready this summer. I am also preparing a sequel to THE DIRDY BIRDY titled, A Night at Club Sheik. I may ask you to help me with this endeavor.I also have some other news that I am not yet ready to announce, but it is hot stuff. Here are your answers...Dilly

 

JXP: How did you create Courage the Cowardly Dog?

   JR: With a pencil.

 

 

JXP: Why did Courage get accepted?

   JR: Because he passed the interview.

 

JXP: Why choose a name like Stretch Films?

   JR: "Stretch" was my childhood nickname.

 

JXP: Is it true that theeee Ringo Starr voiced the Duck Brothers?

   JR: If he did, he did not know about it.

 

JXP: You also made the pilot for Sniz and Fondue for Kablam. What was it like working with Michael Pearlstein?

   JR: It was fun when he made funny drawings.

 

JXP: What is the Lady of the Black Puddle's backstory basically for what it seems, shes an evil sea creature that has been kidnapping men and eating them alive. How did she became the lady of the black puddle?

   JR: It was in her DNA.

 

JXP: How is a weremole born?

   JR: With difficultly.

 

JXP: And why is it that when someone is turned into a weremole, the only way to cure them is by feeding them a hair of the weremole that bit them?

   JR: Organic shampoo.

 

JXP: There's a creature in the tiny door in Bushwick's apartment. What kind of creature is it; is it a type of rat or some other type of creature?

   JR: No one who has seen it lived to tell.

 

JXP: Why did Courage end? I love that show.

   JR: It did not end to make you hate it.

 

JXP: Why hire Marty Grabstein?

   JR: His eyebrows are exactly like Courage.

 

JXP: What was your favorite episode?

   JR: All

 

JXP: Least favorite episode?

   JR: None

 

JXP: How come Courage talked less in the latest episodes?

   JR: He had less to say.

 

JXP: How did you get started in animation?

   JR: Slowly.

 

JXP: Any advice for a cartoonist like myself?

   JR: Earn money.

 

 

JXP: What inspired you to make that chinese guy that turned Courage into a fly?

   JR: The laugh of my design supervisor.

 

JXP: Why were the Trolls and Valkeries at war until Courage had the Head of the Valkeries and the Troll King engaged?

   JR: Cultural intolerance.

 

JXP: What was the name of the Goddess that was looking for her dog; Duncan that looks like Courage?

   JR: Duncan's mom.

 

JXP: Why did Duncan leave her?

   JR: He's a dog.

 

JXP: Why does The Great Fusili stage turn people into puppets? Was it cursed for some reason or did he enchanted it to make it that way?

 
   JR: Engineering. Bad Engineering.

 

 

JXP: Any projects your working on now?

   JR: Staying alive.

John R. Dilworth is the de-facto creator of Courage the Cowardly Dog for Cartoon Network. Running his own company called Stretch Films, I emailed his company and asked him some questions.