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[[File:jon_mcclenahan_1700.jpg|frame|Meet Jon McClenahan.]]
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[[Platypus Comix|Peter Paltridge]] on Jon McClenahan }}
'''Jon McClenahan''' is an American animator, hailing from [[The Windy City|Chicago, Illinois]].
Jon's career in animation began in 1980, when after four years as a meat-truck driver, he was told of a job opening at [[Hanna
His employment at HB Southern Star Studios (as it was called) ended in August 1987, when the studio was consolidated and sold off. After some time at Cioni Artworks, Jon started StarToons, his studio, located in Chicago. During this time, he did some of his best known works, including [[Tiny Toon Adventures]] (some [[Kennedy Cartoons]] animated episodes, and some of his own), [[Taz
However, after completing work on the first season of Animaniacs, StarToons began sliding into a downwards spiral. Jon planned with one of his former background painters, an Indian named Uttam Kumar, to start an Indian animation house for StarToons (which was to be the first of its kind) only for Kumar to be found out as having undergone a [[Face Heel Turn]] during that time. Later, after a management change at [[Warner Bros]] Animation (his client for nearly all of StarToons' work), Jon tried to get on good terms with new president Sander Schwartz, only to be accused of shipping the work to an overseas studio just because it was so different from what StarToons usually did. This was the death knell to StarToons, and Jon McClenahan was on his own again.
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After a brief stint at Germany's Munich Animation, he became a director at [[Midway Games]] until 2006. After that, he had a two-year stint at Star Farm Productions.
Now, since 2008, Jon McClenahan once again has his own company, named [
Interviewed a few years back on [http://www.platypuscomix.net/people/mcclenahan.html Platypus Comix] (which is where the page quote comes from).
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Dudley the Dinosaur is Jon McClenahan's most well known creation, a mascot for the American Dental Association. Dudley was the nation's first bilingual (English and Spanish) kids' public service campaign. Since his inception in 1991, he has starred in many commercials, beating ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Smokey The Bear]]'' as the most well-known public service campaign character, and new ads are on the way for 2012.
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=== Shows worked on by Jon McClenahan: ===
== StarToons ==
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' (sequences in 17 episodes by Kennedy Cartoons, and three full episodes using his StarToons studio: "Henny Youngman Day", "Thirteensomething", and "It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special")
* ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'' (sequences in two episodes by Kennedy Cartoons: "Whiffle While You Work" and "Dry Hard")
* ''[[Taz
* ''[[
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHh7JkuLeVk Fat Cats] (a pilot for the [[What a Cartoon Show]])
* ''[[
* ''[[Histeria
=== Tropes associated with Jon McClenahan: ===
* [[Animation Bump]]: Mainly due to the bounciness and expressiveness of his work
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Uttam Kumar. (To elaborate: In an interview at Platypus Comix, Jon was asked about former colleagues, and Uttam wasn't mentioned in a good light. Jon hasn't spoken to him since 1997)
* [[Off
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