Dozerfleet Productions in the 1990s

Dozerfleet Productions may have received its name in April of 2006; but its history goes back to much earlier than that.

Founder history and inspiration
The founder was born in late March of 1983. The early forms of inspiration behind Dozerfleet's mission began to take shape after being inspired by movies that were on TV in 1986 and 1987, especially syndicated reruns of The Empire Strikes Back and bootlegged VHS copies of An American Tail.

The Dozerfleet founder was born in Ft. Myers, Florida, but moved a little more than a year later to Kenosha, Wisconsin. He lived in three different homes there, the final of which was 415 65th St. in Kenosha - which would later be commemorated in the form of being Thevia Logindil's home, as mentioned in Ciem: Inferno.

In 1989, the family moved to 3704 Havana Ave. in Wyoming, MI. They moved again in late 1992, to 1500 Southlawn Dr. in the same town. On October 10th of 1994, the founder became committed to the mission that would become known as Dozerfleet, while studying in the hallway of Holy Trinity Lutheran School.

Significance of the Nineties

 * 1) The 90s were the absolute most formative years of all.
 * 2) First idea for a fanfic/TV show was Annihilators Aerodynamic.  It was followed up a very short time later by Super Knights, Pentagon's Bots, and other lesser-known ideas.  The desire to make a show, and these avenues carried out with typical children's toys, were merely an outlet for a desire that actually began around 1986-1987, inspired by watching a VHS of The Empire Strikes Back.  The video division eventually born of this desire was later known as Dozerfleet Studios.
 * 3) Few works in this era were original; nearly everything being a parody or homage or fanfic of something else.
 * 4) Defenders of Stick-Man Village became the first comic strip, consisting mostly of character sheets.  It became the foundation of what is now called Dozerfleet Comics.
 * 5) The era stretches from the time the Dozerfleet founder left kindergarten to the fall of his sophomore year in high school.  During this era, the family moved twice.
 * 6) Some very early attempts at writing literature that didn't fit into the mold of the "Comics" imprint would lead to the eventual creation of Dozerfleet Literature.

Early comics
These were the Dozerfleet founder's earliest attempts to compile comics together. It was not seen as a serious hobby, passion, or brand. The collection didn't have an official name at the time. Earliest collecting of sketches began in late 1992, though keeping them for more than a month didn't begin until 1993. It wasn't until October 10th of 1994 that projects kept as "franchises" became a devout hobby. This collection was superseded by Flamingo Entertainment in 1996, by Cormorant Entertainment in 1997, and by Dozerfleet Comics in May of 2006.

Flamingo Entertainment
Flamingo Entertainment is the alias of Dozerfleet Productions from August of 1996-August of 1997. This name would be replaced by Cormorant Entertainment, after Flamingo's logo was revealed to be too much of a cliché given the number of flamingos with sunglasses available as stickers. The original Flamingo brand was inspired by a fiberglass flamingo statue that the Dozerfleet Founder had viewed on a hotel in Florida in the summer 1994. His alias for the "Rainbow" creative writing curriculum being used at Holy Trinity that year was "Flamingo White."

Cormorant Entertainment
In August of 1997, the Pot-of-Gold curriculum was used for creative writing class at Holy Trinity. This meant switching to a mineral rather than a color. Dissatisfied with a flamingo, the "Cormorant" entry in Microsoft Encarta '95 CD-ROM was used as a justification to change the pen name to "Cormorant Bronze." Thus began "Cormorant Entertainment," and a push toward more original storytelling as older works were phased out.

While works still used the Cormorant branding well until April and May of 2006, most Cormorant projects after 1999 are going to be labeled as Dozerfleet projects on this database, for the sake of simplicity.