Long Gone Gulch facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Long Gone Gulch
Genre	Adventure Fantasy Western Slapstick Comedy
Created by	Zach Bellissimo Tara Billinger
Written by	Zach Bellissimo Tara Billinger Karl Hadrika Megan Ann Boyd
Directed by	Zach Bellissimo Tara Billinger
Creative director(s)	Trevor Simonsen Daniaelle Simonsen
Voices of	E. G. Daily Danny Cooksey Amber Midthunder Eric Bauza
Theme music composer	Dom Kreep
Composer(s)	Dom Kreep
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	1
Production
Executive producer(s)	Erin Fitzgerald
Editor(s)	Zach Bellissimo
Running time	21-22 minutes
Production company(s)	Lopside Animation MelonCollie Productions
Release
Original network	YouTube
Original release	January 11, 2021 (2021-01-11) – present

Long Gone Gulch is an American 2D animated adventure-fantasy Western comedy web series created, directed, written and produced by Tara Billinger, of The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse shorts, and Zach Bellissimo, of Victor & Valentino and Rick & Morty, based on a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2016. The pilot episode premiered on January 11, 2021. Unlike other series in 2021, it debuted on YouTube. The beginning of the pilot has a content warning saying that the animation contains scenes with cartoon violence, images with flashes, and "scary content" not suitable for those under age 7.

Premise

Snag and Rawhide, sheriffs in a place known as "The Gulch", end up in trouble with the town's mayor after a job gone wrong, and have to fight for "what they care about most", while facing other weird and sleazy characters along the way.

Characters

• Rawhide (voiced by E. G. Daily is a 16-year-old human sheriff in the Gulch who is employed by the mayor and a friend of Snag, who is skilled with fighting, especially using her slingshot, and can think on her feet. Her dad died under unknown circumstances and is buried not far outside the town. Her hair is always covering her left eye, and she enjoys collecting, sweets, and history, while disliking liars, villains, and varmints.
• Snag (voiced by Danny Cooksey is another human sheriff in the town who is friends with Rawhide, uses a special comb as a weapon, and is 17 years old. He enjoys rock n' roll, thrill seeking, and monster films, while he dislikes books, hard work, and authority.
• BW (voiced by Amber Midthunder) is a sardonic bounty hunter and Native American human who hangs around the saloon. She likes to mess with Rawhide and Snag. According to series creator Zach Bellissimo, the "BW" in her name does not mean anything. She is also older and taller than Rawhide and Snag.
• Mayor Rhubarb (voiced by Myke Chilian) is the neurotic and short-tempered mayor of The Gulch and is a jackalope of an old age. He employed Rawhide and Snag as sheriffs, but hates their guts.
• Squatch and Pinchley (voiced by Piotr Michael) are best friends of Rawhide and Snag. Squatch is a burnt-out sasquatch, while Pinchley is a happy and dimwitted humanoid cactus, and both hang about the local saloon.
• Mako (voiced by Eric Bauza) is an outlaw and a land-walking shark (likely a mako shark) living in the Gulch who hates the sheriffs. He has four henchman (also land-walking sea creatures) who work with him: Frisco the wolffish, Enzo the pink crab, Groggy the green crab, and Klaus the moray eel.
• Marigold (voiced by Erin Fitzgerald) is the secretary of the mayor, who is another jackalope, the love interest of the Mayor Rhubarb, and was briefly persuaded easily to join Mako's gang because of the offer of "cheaper healthcare".

Episodes

Pilot (2021)

Production and release

In 2015, the project was officially posted online. However, the creators had been working with the show's concept since 2010 or earlier. The following year, a Kickstarter was begun for the series. It crowdfunded for five years after that point. The same year, a one-minute trailer was released. For that trailer, the art, character design, storyboarding, and animation, was divided between Tara Billinger and Zach Bellissimo, while Michael J. Ruocco did additional animation scenes, and Sam Mckenzie put together text and logo design. At the time, the goal was to release a pilot episode 8–11 minutes long, creating a western-themed show that isn't a parody, which would appeal to those who like The Mighty Boosh, Mad Max, Alice in Wonderland, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. In June 2018, the official Tumblr for the show stated that programs like Flash CC and Animate were used for the animation and are independently producing this, not going through a studio. At the time, it was said that the pilot would be released in early 2019, but, in December 2019, the release date was pushed back to 2020.

On November 27, 2018, the official trailer for the series was first released on YouTube.

On January 11, 2021, the pilot for the series was released. The crew, headed by creators Zach Bellissimo and Tara Billinger, included animators like Nigel, art directors such as Daniaelle and Trevor Simonsen, writers like Karl Handrika, and many other individuals. Others on the crew included Trevor Von Klueg as technical director, Zach Bellissimo as animation director, Zach Bellissimo and Tara Billinger doing character design, Bryan Velayo and Louis Pieper engaging in composting, Bob Pepek as re-recording mixer, and Tara Billinger as production manager.The finished pilot expanded from the originally planned length of 8–11 minutes long to over 21 minutes.

In June 2021, J.D. Wilkes & the Legendary Shack Shakers presented their newest single, "Rawhide," which mixes animated scenes from the pilot and other public domain footage from Terror of Tiny Town. Wilkes had performed "Bible, Candle, & A Skull" in the pilot.