One of the most interesting panels held during the San Diego Convention
featured famed animator J. J. Sedelmaier. Known to millions through his work
with Robert Smigel on Saturday Night Live, the animator came bearing
gifts.

In what may turn out to be the most highly collectible giveaway of
the entire convention, Sedelmaier brought a promotional comic book that is
designed to promote his own studios. The book opens with a reprint of a 1999
Ambiguously Gay Duo comic that originally appeared in a 1999 issue of
Playboy. The book than offers a short overview of Sedelmaier’s career and
continues with storyboards form cartoons and examples of his work in other
mediums.

One of the interior highlights is a two-page comic titled An
Interview with the Amazing Kirsten Dunst. Taking actual dialogue from
interviews with the talented actress, Sedelmaier Productions place the interview
inside a Steve Ditko-era Spider-Man story. In one panel, the interview is
interrupted by the Green Goblin. You have to look twice to make sure that Ditko
wasn’t handling the pencils. It is the coherent juxtaposition of two-seemingly
unrelated ideas (or concepts if you are from Hollywood), that is a Sedelmaier
specialty.

Sedelmaier has developed the ability to take the familiar,
such as a Saturday morning cartoon or Speed Racer, and imbue it with a
mixture of early National Lampoon humor along with a slight amount of actual
respect.