Episode 26 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

After briefly explaining the one reason why Heathcliff & The Catillac Cats was a truly groundbreaking animated series, I’m taking a bit of a break from talking about animation so I can focus on the process of writing – specifically writing novels.

Yeah, I know not everyone thinks they’re interested in that, but I also think once you go on the ride and see how writers – or at least this writer – write novels, you’ll enjoy the trip.

Episode 27 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Today I’ll be spending another episode talking about the process of writing, before getting back to the television series I have worked on during a career that has spanned over forty years. 

I get that not everyone is a writer, but I’m guessing, as I’ve said before, a lot of you like to know what goes on in the demented -- 🙂 -- minds of those who do write, and what that process entails.  And as a bonus, I'm showing a screen shot of me and Kim on my iPhone!  So check it out…and enjoy. 

So Episode 28 has dropped.  It’s a different kind of episode for two reasons.  First, you’ll see me wearing a suit and tie, something I rarely do.  And no, I’m not going to a wedding or a funeral; just coming from a very important meeting and, as Kim says, I clean up good. 

But much more importantly, this is the first episode in which I trace my Hollywood career that I embark on something very different than animation series scripts and, yes, it’s still with DIC Entertainment.  So it’s an interesting detour, and one I think you’ll enjoy.

Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Number 29 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Check it out as I learn I’m to be writing for a true superstar!

Ok, we're back in business, with Episode 30 dropping at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts
​Again, apologies for my missing the Tuesday drop due to my pneumonia vaccination the day before.  I think you'll like this episode, featuring some odd developments as I move into working on Mattel's Predicaments video game with superstar Joan Rivers. 

Episode 31 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

In this installment I get to go onto a set to see actors – OMG! – working on my script for my first live action project.  Pretty heady stuff for a twenty-seven year old kid. 

Check it out and I tell you what the REAL Joan Rivers was like, as well as a mystery guest who will leave you gasping!!!

Enjoy!

Episode 32 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts a little early today.  Check it out and enjoy my meeting with the WWF superstars.  Also, get ready as I begin a new chapter in my television career.

After this installment I’m going to switch to a couple of instructive installments on writing for television, film and novels since it’s been a while since we’ve had installments on that.

Yes, Installment #33 of my Vlog has posted and yes I’m fifty minutes late letting you know.  My bad.  Sorry. 

In this installment we take a detour into talking about writing, how to soften the blow of rejection and how to turn it to your advantage.

Enjoy.  Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Hi, everyone.  Just to let you know, installment #34 has dropped early, hopefully making up for my notifying you about yesterday’s drop a little late.

In this, my second of four installments about the business of writing, I reveal what I’m doing is trying to show you how to create your own Presentation Package for presenting a television series concept to broadcasters.   

Yes, I know not everyone is interested creating and presenting a series to broadcasters.  But I’m pretty sure most people would like to see how it’s done, so I’m going to show you how it’s worked for me over the years

And don’t worry, in a couple installments I’m going to show you how to get that Presentation Package to broadcasters.  And after the next two installments, I promise we’ll return to my adventures at in television industry at DIC Entertainment.

Check it all at by going to https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Well, a little different deal on posting of my Vlog installment -- #35 -- today. Kim's got a major event this evening and I'm escorting her to it. Since we won't be home this afternoon to tape, we taped the installment last night. And, since we won't be home to notify you that it's dropped, we're dropping it early today.

Bottom line, Installment #35 has already dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

​I've enjoyed doing these recent installments about writing.  Today is the third, dealing with how to write a pilot episode script.  With that done, those who want to sell a series -- or are interested in the process for selling a series -- will now be well on their way to having a complete Presentation Plan -- a Business Proposal, a Series Bible and a Pilot Episode Script -- with which to approach potential broadcasters with their series.  And I'll deal with how to do exactly that in Installment 36, which will top on Thursday.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy today's installment.  Kim and I will drink a toast to all of you faithful viewers at the event tonight.

Episode 36 will drop next Tuesday.

After a temporary pause over an unintended but self-inflicted error, we’re back on track with Installment #36, which delineates a path for those who want to sell a television series or those who are interested in how it’s done, to accomplish that ambitious goal.

As an aside, after this installment I’ll return to following my career and the Golden Age of Television Animation.

Enjoy!  And thanks for being a part of all this. 

Well Episode 37 has dropped and we transition back to my career at DIC and the world of animation in the 80s. 

In this episode I continue working on Lady Lovely Locks, a wonderful series for young viewers. Balancing out my joy at working on the series is my crossing swords with DIC’s new VP of Creative Affairs, the first in a number of gaffes I’ll make.

Remember, I promised to show you all side of my story…and I always keep my promises.

Enjoy!   

With the time change looming on the horizon, Kim has changed her office hours to an hour earlier, which means we can tape an hour earlier on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Thus, Episode 38 has now dropped.

It’s a fun episode with some ‘scary stuff’ about Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixie Tails as well as my first time meeting one of the truly towering figures from the Golden Age of Television Animation.

Check it out and enjoy!  https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

And here we go, with Episode 39 dropping at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

​In this installment I'll take you behind the scenes at DIC's art department and also reveal one of the problematic sides of the children's entertainment industry.

And for those of you who are enjoying the ride, please take a second to hit the Subscribe button at Episode 39 and also Like us.  Thanks.  

Episode 40 (!) has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

In this installment I’m going to take you all the way back to 44 BC in ancient Rome and then to DIC Entertainment in 1986, the times, as you’ll learn, in a curious and troubling way similar.  Something’s definitely up at DIC and none of us writers are sure exactly what it is.

For me, I’m confused by the shift in The Force and it’s causing me to make a few tactical career mistakes.

I think this is an episode you’ll enjoy…

Episode 41 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Be warned, this episode starts out – and most of it is – pretty dark.  Keeping my promise to show you all sides of my career and my industry isn’t always easy, especially when I run into or ran into tough times.  But a promise is a promise.

Hang in there.  As with my favorite kind of dramatic stories, this one’s got a happy ending…

Episode 42, my dark years, has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Kim and I have an event tonight so I’m dropping Episode 43 now.

Moving on from DIC and, after a few tough years, I’m starting an exciting new chapter in animation which begins with a phone call from Mark Taylor, DIC’s former Chief Financial Officer.  Drum roll, please!

Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Episode 44 has now dropped and I'm into creating and writing the series bible and 37 episodes of The New Adventures of He-man. For all you MOTU fans here, this and coming episodes will take you behind the scenes on this controversial series. Lots of insight and observations from the guy who was there. I hope you enjoy it at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Episode 45 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Wherein I continue The New Adventures He-man journey, one of my and Jean Chalopin’s few flops after an incredible amount of work because loyal MOTU fans in the pre-internet days didn’t know He-man would return to Eternia after he took care of business on Primus. 

Don’t feel sorry for me. Script fees for the series bible and my writing thirty-seven episodes got me back on top with new cars and a sprawling home in Palm Springs.

But as the series neared wrapping, Jean had another surprise for me -- one that would take me, like He-man in New Adventures, far, far away…

Hi everyone.  Episode 46 as dropped and with it a HUGE announcement about Kim and my life.  And no, Kim’s NOT pregnant.  We’ve got three wonderful grown children.  Enough is enough.    You’ve just have to check out the video to learn the news in our present life and also how I’m off to Paris to work on a new series during the Golden Age of Television Animation for a toy line everyone in the world knows about.

Check it all out at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

Good morning, everyone.  Did I say “Morning?!”  Yep.  Eight A.M. and I’m actually awake – which is rare for me, considering  I usually write until one or two and night and have trouble blinking before ten or eleven.

But my Kim is hosting yet another event for the chamber of commerce she serves as president and CEO.  This one is a business expo with close to a thousand visitors registered so far and who knows how many will show up unregistered.  It’s an all-day event with an upscale mix-and-mingle when it’s over.  Lots of business people and politicians and I know it’s going to be amazing, so I’m going to arrive around ten to be supporting and hand with visitors.

What this means is that Kim and I recorded and dropped our latest Vlog episode last night at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

It’s a different kind of episode with some personal observations.  I think you’ll enjoy it.

Ok, I’m off to Kim’s business expo. 

Episode 49 has dropped at https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts

 and I’ve completed Heroes on Hot Wheels and am returning from Paris to begin my next great animation adventure – a whole slew of direct-to-DVD movie videos.

Get on board and enjoy! 

Wow!  Episode 50!  What a milestone!

Thanks to everyone who’s been following my Vlog.  I hope it’s been interesting so far.  I’d say we’re about three-quarters the way through my journey, but there’s a lot of fun stuff still to come.

This installment is bit of a departure as I look back on what’s changed since the Golden Age of Television Animation as I prepare to serve on a panel at the Lake County Public Library’s Comicfest in Lake County, Indiana on Sunday.  Check out the episode to get an idea of what I’ll be covering at the fest.  

https://www.youtube.com/@jackolesker247/podcasts