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I got a credit card and bought a $500 trunk to store all of these movies in. I went to college at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

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By the time I got to college my movie collection was epic. I had a bootlegging system set up in my room and I would record on super long play so I could fit three films to one VHS. I worked at Blockbuster Video where I was given five rentals a week. Not because I was interested in making a movie but because movies were in my vocabulary. When I was in high school I wrote a few movie scripts. My mother got me this book Chuck Amuck and I drew every page in that book.īlockbuster Video was a US-based provider of home movie and video game rental services with over 9,000 stores throughout the US and Canada at its peak in 2004. I watched a lot of cartoons and always loved to draw. Mike: I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, a child of the ’80s. Give us a little background on yourselves. Before every episode this combination of form and color ignites like a perfect seven-second bomb, sweeping the viewer into Abbi and Ilana’s adventures amid the effervescent backdrop of New York City.Ī discussion with Illustrator MIKE PERRY and Comedy Central Senior Designer & Animator JULIE VERARDI Though each sequence is different, their dual constants are Perry’s hand-drawn linework, loose and imperfect, and a seizuring neon palette punctuated with black and white.

The sequences, each a mere seven seconds long and set to the same percussive jingle, burst with energy as they present a new treatment of the show’s bubble-lettered logo. He highlights his exploration of color as a way to “vibrate the viewer.” His designs nail this goal, flashing fast and bright like a drug-fueled sprint through Times Square. “I wanted it to be big, bold, and weird,” Perry explains of his initial inspiration during our conversation with him.

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So every episode of the Comedy Central series - returning for its third season next spring - offers the viewer a different sequence and a new glimpse into Perry’s limitless imagination. Artist Mike Perry had so many ideas ahead of his initial meeting with Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, the show's creators and stars, that one was not enough. Ink-vomiting letters, spinning breasts, exploding geometry: one never knows what to expect from the animated title sequences of Broad City.

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