Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation is a presentation of award-winning animated short films , annually touring throughout theaters , film festivals or college campuses in the United States. The festival premieres annually in the La Jolla Village neighborhood seated in San Diego, California then tours to theatres, film festivals, and college campuses currently in about a dozen North American cities.
Mellow Manor Productions, Inc. It was named after Riverside's notorious Victorian house "The Manor" where Spike, Mike, and many others lived in a communal set. The Manor was the original flagship and production house of the Festival.
After spending mid giving out flyers for the Fantastic Animation Festival , [ 1 ] they focused on presenting a flight of animated films and booking the Festival of Animation in venues across the country, which eventually becoming a 50 city tour.
This is an unrated, adult version of the regular program mainly featuring satyric, non sequitur and gross-out cartoons. In the Festival's early days, Spike and Mike took the stage, introduced the films in ringmaster style.
The reel header was flanked by a bagpipe and drum battle march over a cartoon of Spike's Scottish Terrier on screen wreaking havoc on the titles.
