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Wolfmill Acquires Ponytailers

June 13, 2002 - The internet is a major force in today's entertainment world, with fiction, games, animation, and comic strips seen by millions of people worldwide every day. One such work is "Ponytailers," Wolfmill Entertainment's latest acquisition and its first foray into the world of live-action television.

Currently, "Ponytailers" is a series of contemporary adventure stories told from a girl's point of view and presented in comic strip form. It tells the story of Caitlin, Kachina, and M.G., three 12 year old girls from disparate backgrounds who live in the ranch country of High Sierra Falls, just outside of Yellowstone National Park. Riding their horses through the beautiful Sierra mountains, the stories of "Ponytailers" are about the the exciting adventures these three girls share.as they bond and their friendships grow.

"Girls the world over love horses, which makes 'Ponytailers' a natural," said Marv Wolfman, one of the partners in Wolfmill Entertainment. "'Ponytailers' combines that love for horses with strong human adventure stories and great, intriguing characters."

"Ponytailers" has been running on the A Girl's World website since March of this year, receiving over 6,000,000 hits per month. A Girl's World (AGW) is the most popular internet site for girls that isn't owned by a toy company, according to Alexa, the web information company that maintains archives and activity logs on the millions of websites on the internet. By Alexa's ratings, AGW is in the top one-third of one percent (0.33%) of the internet in terms of popularity.

The comic strip has received an incredible response from those reading it on the web. Letters received include comments like "Cool!", "I love your comic!", and "This is totally awesome!!!!" as well as requests for where they can buy print versions.

"'Ponytailers' works as a comic strip and will work as a TV series because it harkens back to classic children's television. These shows, like 'Fury' and 'My Friend Flicka,' were huge hits and ran for years. But 'Ponytailers' isn't just adventure stories. Its contemporary stories show our characters dealing with today's life - school, home, the prospect of dating -- and the building of friendships between people from very different backgrounds," said Craig Miller, Wolfmill's other partner.

In addition to weekly installments of the "Ponytailers" comic strip, AGW also hosts a letter column, on-line chats with the writer and artist of "Ponytailers," contests, games, and other educational and interactive activities directly related to "Ponytailers" and its contents.

The comic was created by writer Sarah Byam with artwork by Ric Estrada. Byam has been a professional writer for the past 14 years, creating and writing comics for Marvel, DC, Disney, Dark Horse, and other comics companies. She is also the founder and creative director of Labor of Love Studio, an art studio dedicated to community service projects. Estrada has worked in every facet of cartooning, commercial art, and journalism for companies ranging from McGraw Hill to DC Comics including time spent doing animation storyboarding, political cartooning, and artwork for romance comic books, "Wonder Woman," and "Amethyst Princess of Gemworld".

In addition to the 104 episode series "Pocket Dragon Adventures" still airing around the world and "Ponytailers," Wolfmill Entertainment is also working on "Astounding Space Thrills," based on another internet comic strip, and "Elfquest," based on the internationally bestselling comic book series of the same name.

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