If you have or know small kids who frolic about the World Wide Web, you might want to point them this way. That link'll take you to a new web cartoon project featuring Professor Garfield. Professor Garfield is a lot like Non-Professor Garfield except that he wears glasses and occasionally stops eating long enough to teach somebody something…and now he's spearheading a project done via a four-way collaboration: The Professor Garfield Foundation, The Virginia Department of Education, The Attorney General's Office in Virginia, and the Verizon Foundation. The goal is to teach children to watch out for online predators, cyberbullies, scam operators and other virtual nastiness.
The animation over there was produced by Jim Davis's Paws, Inc. The animation was done by Glenn Zimmerman. Lynette Nuding did the sketches for the backgrounds, Jon Barnard did the post editing and Tom Howard worked on the PDF support documents. The scripts were by Scott Nickel and Bob Levy coordinated the project. I directed the voices which were performed by Frank Welker, Gregg Berger, Audrey Wasilewski and Jason Marsden. We're all quite proud of this effort and are hoping there will be more.