Interview by Avery and Ollie Kaplan

In AmphibiaThe Animated Adventure Series CREATED BY Matt BralryAnne Bochuy (Brenda Song) Travels to a parallel dimension where She Becomes entangled in the owner World. The Series Ran from 2019 to 2022, But Later This Month, The Show’s Legions of Fans have submit to get excited about. On March 25th2025, The Art of Amphibia Arrives from Tokyopop. With text by Drew Taylor and Illustrations by many of the artists who work on the show, The Art of Amphibia is a must for fans of the series.

To celebrate The Release of the Book, Beat Caught Up Comics with Briary Over Email. We Asked All About The Development of The Series, About What Went into Creating The Art of Amphibia and about What We Can Expect Next from Braly and The World Of Amphibia.

Avery and Ollie Kaplan: Alex Hirsch, Who You Worked with On Gravity FallsState that your expertise includes characters like pacifica northwest. Can You Tell Us About How This Prpensity for Working with “Mean Girls-Style Teens ”Came from?

Matt Bralry: I Think it’s Just My Personality. My Friends Have Always Thought I was Pretty Sassy So I Think I Found Myself Drawn To Characters Who Were Like That.

WHEN PACIFICA NORTHWEST WAS INTRODUCED IN Gravity FallsShe was just intended as a foil for mabel … but when my board partner Alonso Ramirez Ramos and I GOT THE Script We Instantly Were Like, “She’s a Star!”

Internship Sketch. LOGO FEATURES A SPACE SHIP FLYING AOUND THE EARTH. One Human Stands With An Id Card, Another Human Holds A Tricorder and Robot Raising A Hand in Greeting.Internship Sketch. LOGO FEATURES A SPACE SHIP FLYING AOUND THE EARTH. One Human Stands With An Id Card, Another Human Holds A Tricorder and Robot Raising A Hand in Greeting.KAPLANS: AS HUGE TREKKIES, WE HAV TO ASK ABOUT Internship. Can You Tell Us Anything About This Pitch? Did Any Elements make their way into Amphibia?

BRALY: Sooort Of. The protagonist of Internship was an overachiever who Found Himself Assigned to the “Worsst Ship in the Fleet.” So Both He and Anne Were Characters Who Were Stuck in Places They Would Rather Not Be.

As a bonus treat, I will be included to sketch from my Internship Pitch from Way Back in 2014 – Feel Free to Share It with Readers. It was about Three Misfits Working on A Dinkky Exploration Ship streets Chickadee.

KAPLANS: You mentioned in a social media that it “was all hands on decck back in convelopment” of Amphibia. IM CURIUS if you can tell us about what This Collaborative Process Was Like?

BRALY: So One of Our Bits of Feedback From Research was that sprig Focus Tested Vry Poorly With Kids. They Didn’t Like How Much of A “Wet Noodle” The Original version of the Character was. After that note, we really went out to Everyone and Anyone in the Building for A Take On The Character. We Got Sub Really Crazy Exploration Back From All Kinds of Different Artists – It Was Simultaneously Awesome and A Bit Intimentating.

KAPLANS: How Involved were you in the makeing of Art of Amphibia? How Did The Book Come Together?

BRALY: After The Sales Success of Marcy’s JournalTokyopop and I Talked about What Was Next. An Art Book Has Always Been A Dream of Mine. For Sum Reason Animated TV Shows Sppecifically Just Didn’t Have Very Many of these Kinds of Collections Published – It’s Common for Movies But Vry Rare for Shows.

So for Our Next Book, I Made Sure it was the artbook. I Wasn’t Going to Miss This Opportunity to ImmortalizE and Celebrate Our Hard Work. As for My Involvement, I was back at disney for Weeks Hand Selecting The Pieces That Are featured in This Book.

MATT BRALY WORKING AT HIS DESK WITH A CUT-OUT OF ANNE BEHIND HIM.MATT BRALY WORKING AT HIS DESK WITH A CUT-OUT OF ANNE BEHIND HIM.

KAPLANS: IS There Anything in Art of Amphibia You are particularly excited for people to read about?

BRALY: I’M Excited for People to See our Thinking Process When it comes to the Characters and Environment. When you watch at Finished Tv Show, There is just so conceptual work that is left on the cutting room floor and it’s always fascinating to see.

MRS. Croaker, One of Our Beloved Townspeople, eleven Had Gelatinous Hair Made Up of What Looke Like Frog Eggs. It was disgusting and while i’m glad we changed it – you can see new for yourself in the book!

KAPLANS: One of the Neat Things About Art of Amphibia is the episode-by-episode focus, including the season 2 episode “wax museum.” We’re curious if the references to Gravity Falls (or the Amphibia References on The Owl Houseetc.

BRALY: NO CROSSOVER EVENT was ever seriously discussed but i think we really liked referencing each other, Sort of Winking to the Audience that these shows had similar dna and philosophies.

Amphibia and The Owl House Were of Course Bown Created by Gravity Falls SO THAT CONNECTION WAS NATURAL. I WOUD LOVE TO SEE A CROSSOVER SOMEDAY BUT DON’T THINK YOU COULD SERVICE THE THREE SHOWS AND THEIR Amazing Characters with Anything Less Than 90min – A Movie, Essentially.

Art of Amphibia JPEGArt of Amphibia JPEG Kaplanns: As evidenced by content in The Art of AmphibiaThe Show Was Deeply influenced by Your Own Experiences, Family History and Perspective. Can You Give Us Sub Insight into the Experience of Making Submit As public as an animated show but Which contains Such personal elements?

BRALY: I Think Being A Show Creator Means A Certain Degree of Just Putting Yourself out there and hoping People are receptive and kind. It’s a bit of a shock when you discover Everyone on the Internet has Really Strong Opinions About Your Little Cartoon Show.

That Said, I was specially Grateful That People Liked The Voice of Mrs. Boonchuy in Season 3, Who Happens To Be Played By My current Vary Real Mother. I Don’s Think I Could Have Taken It If People were Overly Critical of That Character Haha.

Kaplans: In Season 3, Anne and the Plantars Travel to Los Angeles. Can You Tell Us About The Process of Translating A Real World Location into the Realm of Animation? Did You Face Any particular Challenges?

BRALY: Our Big Challenge was to make the sem as fun and excitation as the world of amphibia. We Didn’t Want Viewers To Get Bored of Seeing The City Skyline Episode After Episode.

Part of Our Thinking was to Really Try and Portray The City Through the Eyes of the Plantar Family. What Would a Giant Talking Frog Think of Our Freeways and Restaurants? What Would They Think of the Cineplex? We tried to design the world from that pov.

KAPLANS: Amphibia was Nominated for Two Glaad Awards. Was it important for you to include this representation in the show?

BRALY: Big Chunk of the Amphibia Team Identified as part of the LGBTQ+ Community.

When you are managing a Team That is Diverse, It Becomes Very Personally Important For You To Make Sure The Show Is Also Diverse. People’s Eyes Just Light Up When they are uble to see Themselves in these Characters and It’s Not A Feeling You Forget Quickly.

KAPLANS: We understand you are working on a new show? Is There Anything You Can Tell Us About Your Upcoming Project (S)?

BRALY: I’M Juggling a Few Things Right Now – i’m Working on a Couple Feature Length Films for Different Studios and Have an Action/Adventure Graphic Novel Coming Out This Summer With Skybound.

Please check my social media (@radrapy on all platforms) if you want to follow my work. I Really Appreciate It!

KAPLANS: Is There Anything Else You’d Like US to Include?

BRALY: Art of Amphibia is not the last Amphibia Book We Are Making With Tokyopop – We Have Another Very exciting Project that is Just Now Being Written and Drawn… I Can’t Say Too many But as a hint i tease that it’s about sprig and his friends on an exciting expedition.

The Art of Amphibia Will Be Available at Your Local Bookstore and/or Public Library Beginning On March 25th2025.



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