Zombie College is an American Flash cartoon

Flash cartoon

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 series created by television writer Eric Kaplan

Eric Kaplan

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 and directed by John Rice

John Rice

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 for Icebox.com

Icebox.com

icebox.com is a web television animation company founded in 1999 by Jonathan Collier, Howard Gordon, Rob LaZebnik, Scott Rupp and Tal Vigderson. The founders stated that the company was created to capitalize on the inherent "freedom of the medium" which they felt stifled creativity of writers due...

. 12 episodes were produced.

Pre-production work was done in Los Angeles at Icebox, while the flash animation was handled by Seattle's Smashing Ideas.

The series was originally pitched as TV series for Fox

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 but an agreement was never reached. The show was acquired by Mondo Mini Shows

Mondo Mini Shows

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 in 2000.

Plot summary

The series follows Scott a college freshman who after following his girlfriend Zelda to Arkford University, a college where there are many zombie students, she breaks up with him. Scott becomes friends with a Zombie named Zeke. Over the course of the series Scott and Zelda both become Zombies and get back together just to break up again.

Characters

Scott: (voiced by David Herman

David Herman

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) The show's main character who tries to get his girlfriend Zelda to be with him again no matter if he puts his life in danger.

Zelda: (voiced by Pamela Segall) Scott's on again off again girlfriend.

Zeke: (voiced by John DiMaggio

John DiMaggio

John William DiMaggio is an American voice actor. A native of North Plainfield, New Jersey, he is known for his gruff, deep voice and New Jersey accent, which he uses to voice mainly villains and anti-heroes.-Filmography:...

) A zombie who becomes Scott's friend after trying to kill him. He doesn't have a body but he manages to walk and do manual activities with the intestines sticking out of his neck.

Julius: (voiced by Billy West

Billy West

William Richard "Billy" West is an American voice actor. Born in Detroit but raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Billy launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN. He left the radio station to work on the short-lived revival...

): A zombie who doesn't have flesh on his skull but is able to talk and do everything normally. He is Zeke's and Scott's fraternity friend.

Graham: (voiced by Billy West

Billy West

William Richard "Billy" West is an American voice actor. Born in Detroit but raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Billy launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN. He left the radio station to work on the short-lived revival...

): Zelda's new boyfriend after she breaks up with Scott for the second friend. As a zombie Zelda tries to eat his brain but he is saved by Scott who takes him to the hospital where his brain is supposedly eaten by the same girl who turned Scott into a zombie in the last episode.

External links

• Zombie College at Icebox.com
  Icebox.com
  icebox.com is a web television animation company founded in 1999 by Jonathan Collier, Howard Gordon, Rob LaZebnik, Scott Rupp and Tal Vigderson. The founders stated that the company was created to capitalize on the inherent "freedom of the medium" which they felt stifled creativity of writers due...
  
  
• "Drawing Power", Entertainment Weekly, 23 June 2000
• The 12 episodes