cartoons
How Pixar Screwed Up Cartoon Cars For a Generation of Kids
Jason Torchinsky · 12/26/11 10:45AMNormally, I wouldn't want to bring up something of this gravity during the holidays, but I have to take a firm stand on an issue that's been bothering me for a long while. I've sat by long enough and did nothing while wrongs were committed, on greater and greater scales. But no more. Today I make my stand. Here goes:
Breitbart Should Probably Stop Posting Nazi-Era Anti-Semitic Cartoon to His Site
Max Read · 12/16/11 02:55PMHerman Cain Is Now Just Making Cartoons
Jim Newell · 11/28/11 12:25PMNow that Herman Cain's sliding back into a comfortable third place in the polls and no one cares about him anymore, how should he spend all that money he raised while he was the frontrunner? "Converting the campaign into a PAC and paying yourself a million dollar salary for the next few years" would be our plan, and it's probably his for further down the road! For now, though, he'll make fancy cartoons like this one, about the 9-9-9 tax plan.
Was R. Crumb's New Yorker Cover on Gay Marriage Worthy of Rejection?
Seth Abramovitch · 11/10/11 10:58PMWhen R. Crumb was commissioned to draw a cover for a June 2009 issue of The New Yorker, he came up with this illustration of a gender-indeterminate couple tying the knot before a city clerk. A sign near them reads, "Gender Inspection," accompanied by a red arrow. The cover, which Crumb had never made public until now, was rejected by New Yorker editor David Remnick, and Crumb responded to the slight by publicly announcing that he'd never work for The New Yorker again.
Infuriatingly Inscrutable Cartoonist Dies
John Cook · 11/09/11 02:55PMBil Keane, the creator of America's worst cartoon for sober people/best cartoon for high people "Family Circus," has died. Keane's anodyne, willfully unfunny and baffling cartoons led writer Daniel Radosh to ask, in reaction to the deaths of noted artists and celebrities, "Why Not Bil Keane?" God has finally listened to you, Daniel.
Study: Spongebob Squarepants Is Ruining Your Kid's Life
Jeff Neumann · 09/12/11 02:37AMGay, anti-Christian, global warming-peddling cartoon Spongebob Squarepants is under attack from old people again, and this time it's from scientists. In the newest edition of Pediatrics, researchers from the University of Virginia found that sticking the kids in front of Spongebob Squarepants so you don't have to actually hang out with them is, in fact, killing their attention spans.
The Godfather of Media News Is Semi-Retiring
Hamilton Nolan · 08/24/11 02:21PMSpongebob Squarepants Art Theft Caper Rocks Huntington Beach
Maureen O'Connor · 08/17/11 03:57PMArtist Todd White is famous for designing characters who live in a pineapple under the sea. But did he also design an elaborate kidnap and art theft caper in Huntington Beach? Gallerist Margaret Howell has filed a $7.5 million lawsuit accusing "agents of Mr. White" of imprisoning and assaulting her for several hours, stealing $1 million in artwork, forcing her into "reciting a rehearsed and scripted 'consent' into a voice recorder," and then defaming her to associates.
Terrible Cartoon Explains Everything About Bin Laden Raid
Jim Newell · 05/02/11 11:24AMThank you to the producers at CBS' The Early Show for distilling the raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound into a hilarious, cheap and brief cartoon with all the visual sizzle of a computer game circa 1992. Watch the elite Navy SEAL "Team Six," sporting what appears to be World War II infantry garb, just walk right in and massacre everyone for a while. Anyone could have done this!
30 Rock Turned Brian Williams Into a Cartoon
Brian Moylan · 04/21/11 01:10PMTop 10 Racist Moments in Cartoon History
Lisa Gagliardi · 04/05/11 09:30AMIt's amazing be reminded of what was acceptable before being PC was so important.
ThunderCats: Your Childhood Reimagined
Brian Moylan · 04/04/11 02:15PMIf you're anything like me, you spent many afternoons after school enthralled by the adventures of Lion-O and his fellow ThunderCats. Banking on collective nerd nostalgia (guilty!) and the exploitable ignorance of kids more than half my age who have no clue this isn't an entirely new phenomenon, Cartoon Network is remaking the show.
I'll Be Seeing You on The Far Side
Anderson Evans · 04/02/11 09:00AMMost know that The Far Side was one of the great comic strips of the 80s and 90s, while few realize that in 1994 a particularly edgy television special aired on CBS.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Pepper Ann
Whitney Jefferson · 03/26/11 09:10AMPepper Ann was a staple in Disney's "One Saturday Morning" block from it's debut in 1997 to when it ended in 2001. It was a show that revolved around 12-year-old Pepper Ann's wild fantasies about her every day life as a student.
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Anderson Evans · 03/19/11 08:30AMIt seems bugs aren't just great source material for CG movies like A Bug's Life and Bee Movie, but they were also the subject of one of the earliest, most underrated animated feature films.
Watch a Lost Scene From Abandoned Monster's Inc. Sequel
Preksha Kumar · 03/12/11 11:20AMWhile Pixar is producing its own version of the Monsters Inc. sequel, this amazing video compiles the artwork and storyline from the authors' (Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir) original idea.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Oscar Edition
Anderson Evans · 02/26/11 09:30AM
Animated short subjects being nominated for an Oscar is a happening far older than computer animated desk lamps and British claymation. Here are the first three cartoons that showed up on the ballot at the fifth Annual Academy Awards.
College Humor Parodies Dr. Seuss in "Oh the Places You'll Actually Go"
Kristina Grosspietsch · 02/19/11 07:00PMThink your future is so bright you need shades? Think again. College Humor's new Dr. Seuss parody warns you about your inevitable crushed dreams and destiny for mediocrity. Enjoy!
Doug: "Doug and Patty Sittin' in a Tree"
Whitney Jefferson · 02/19/11 08:00AMThis the most important moment in the teenage life of Nickelodeon's Doug Funnie—yes, even better than meeting The Beets at the Honker Burger with Skeeter. His crush, Patti Mayonaise, has asked him out on a date.