TV Specs

DuckTales – “Goblins and Grimoires!”
Episode submission – Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship, 2019 (36 pages)

Scrooge and his family become trapped in a medieval fantasy world of magic and monsters where they must vanquish an old foe before returning home.

Batman: The Brave and the Bold – “Batgirl’s Night Out”
Episode submission – Nickelodeon Writing Fellowship, 2009 (40 pages)

Batgirl and Killer Moth both have something to prove. Batgirl needs to prove to Batman that, despite her youth, she can be a great crime fighter and an asset to him. Killer Moth needs to prove to Gotham’s underworld that, despite his ridiculous appearance, he is a formidable super villain and capable of getting rid of Batman once and for all. And when their goals collide, wackiness ensues.

TV Pilots

The Quarter Bin – “Sex, Lies, and Jellyfish ”
Original half-hour animated comedy series episode (36 pages)

In less than 24 hours, Zoe loses her girlfriend, her job, her home, and is forced to move in with her best friend Dev. Dev has his own problem to deal with when his comic pitch gets rejected and his artist casts him aside. They’ll soon discover their respective problems have the same solution.

Shorts

My Martian Friend – “Games of Pwned”
Original series concept submission – Nickelodeon Script First, 2015 (4 pages)

George decides to teach his new alien friend Zactton how to play some Earth games. He is surprised and frustrated when he sees just how much better Zactton is at playing these games.

Pepper’s Ghosts – “Playtime With Priscilla”
Original series concept submission – Nickelodeon Script First, 2015 (6 pages)

Pepper receives a belated 12th birthday gift from her father: an antique doll that she feels she is much too old for. Even worse, the doll is haunted by a bratty ghost who wants to play forever.

Stan Arcanaczyk: Boy Wizard – “Stan and the Wawel Dragon”
Original series concept submission – Nickelodeon Script First, 2015 (6 pages)

Stan Arcanaczyk seeks out the great wizard Balthazar in the hopes that he will become his apprentice and learn the art of magic. Balthazar is skeptical of this eager young man and sets Stan upon a task to prove his worth. Stan must face the legendary dragon Smok Wawelski and end his reign of terror. Instead, Stan discovers a misunderstood monster and turns him into a friend and ally, earning Balthazar’s approval in the process.

Stan Arcanaczyk: Boy Wizard – “Stan and the Wand of Mischief”
Original series concept submission – Nickelodeon Animated Shorts, 2013 (4 pages)

As part of his wizard training, Stan receives a magic wand from Balthazar to help him better control his burgeoning powers. The wand is very powerful and Stan is overwhelmed by the spells it allows him to perform. Stan’s magical hijinks quickly spiral out of control, and Balthazar must put right the chaos his pupil has unleashed. In the end, Stan might just learn a valuable lesson about restraint and responsibility.

Mike Wytrykus is a cartoonist and animation writer. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago where he studied screenwriting, storyboarding, and both traditional & computer animation production. Mike is a comic book geek, movie buff, tabletop gamer, toy collector, and computer nerd.

Mike began creating his own cartoons when he was nine years old and has been publishing comics online for over 20 years. Beginning in the autumn of 2000, Mike has worked as the writer & artist of the online comic strip Grimstone, which is based on characters he created during childhood. Since then, he has self-published a Grimstone comic book series as well as a book collection of the strip’s early years.

From 2004 until 2012, Mike was a part-time student at Columbia College Chicago with a concentration in computer animation for film & video. While there, he worked on several short scripts, storyboards, story reels, animated vignettes, and short films. During the 2010-11 school term – as part of the Animation Production Studio course – Mike directed a 7-minute animated film entitled Play Date, about a little girl pursuing a little boy through imaginary worlds in a game of make-believe. Play Date was the recipient of the Chicago Film Critics Association's inaugural Emerging Filmmakers Award in 2013 and later won Best Student Short at the 2014 Wizard World Film Festival in Chicago.

Mike continues to create comic strips while also developing animation concepts to pitch. His most recent project is a comedy series about a group of diverse nerds and their local comic book store called The Quarter Bin.