And they're pretty good! This is from the weekend, but I overheard people talking about this like twice in some cafe so it's apparently the hot Internet thing of the week. It's a 1968 yearbook with over a thousand students, and you can buy it as a book or just browse it on Flickr.

Useful press releases, part 3: "Thunder, thunder, ThunderCats, Ho! ThunderCats are on the move, ThunderCats are loose, Feel the magic, hear the roar, ThunderCats are loose!" Did you know that the second season of the awesome cartoon ThunderCats is now available on DVD? Season two, volume one hits the shelves today! According to the trusty press release, "The Season One, Volume One release was the biggest selling retro animation title on DVD ever!" Please send more information as it becomes available, Premier PR! Pictured, two "Cheetara girls" on the loose in Trafalgar Square (obviously high budget promotions). But where are Lion-O, Snarf, and Panthro? Let's hope Mumm-Ra didn't get them!

Classic Bugs Bunny WWII short. One of the non-racist ones, by the way. I'd link to one of the "banned" ones, but I don't want to get into a whole thing.

Everyone loves LSD. It makes you smarter, happier, and life gets totally interesting. (Actually, it's so freaking scary it makes me cry. Drugs're bad, mm'kay?) But what sweet, sweet chemical elves invented the stuff? And why? Well, sure, you could read some musty old text on the subject, but that's hardly trippy. Instead, here it is in cartoon form! [phocks.org via Digg] While we're on the subject, what was your best/worst psychedelic experience?

Yeah, yeah, John Adams Part 3 is on HBO tonight–Will Adams and Ben Franklin convince the French to fund the struggling Revolution? Will Franklin offend Adams with his womanizing ways? Screw that. It's Bendering time! Two hours of brand new Futurama hotness is almost upon us. And the show's creators are totally getting even with the Fox execs who cancelled the show two years ago.

Cartoon death trailblazer South Park last night finally ran a Britney Spears episode, featuring her gruesome demise. Not to give it away, but it's not just the shotgun that does it! Oh South Park, you are truly the world leader in animated superstar celebrity tasteless murder techniques. Below, a clip [P6] of headless Britney on the show.

Evil terrorist and fashion icon Osama Bin Laden is just like some slow, cranky old man: sitting around the cave, reading the newspaper, complaining about the funny pages. The world's most wanted criminal released another audio tape yesterday, specifically to condemn those stupid fucking Danish Muhammad cartoons, and threaten Europe with a "severe reckoning." The main cartoon (which is for sale, and pictured) was reprinted last month in a show of solidarity with the cartoonist, who lives in safe houses because his life is in danger [WP]. Still! For the stupid half-funny cartoon! Enough already, Muslim extremists! "I have always been an atheist, and I dare say these events have only intensified my atheism," the cartoonist tells the New York Times. Smooth move, extremists: you're making him like god even less. Nice spiritual persuasion there. Below, the full page of mediocre cartoons, once again. Gosh.

The second animated installment of Jim Behrle's epic, award-winning Kreepie Kats Saga has arrived. Enjoy sticker-on-sticker love and a special birthday tribute to Kreepiest Kat of all, below.

Seems that some of those humorous-from-afar fanatics are still upset about those Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that caused all that fuss two years ago; police just arrested three people for plotting to kill one of the cartoonists involved. One tragedy has been averted, but it's too late to save the greatest casualty of the cartoons: Harry Siegel's brief and undistinguished New York Press editorship. So much hassle for some mediocre drawings that are all over the Internet, anyways. Stop the violence! Full image of the notorious newspaper page after the jump

The AMPTP is having "informal discussions" with the WGA today. The losers: the people who actually, "secretly" write reality shows and, as always, the people who work in animation. Let the big dogs get their internet residuals! If the staffs of I Love New York and Dora the Explorer want benefits, they should work for real TV! [Yahoo]

In yesterday's Doonesbury comic, cartoonist Garry Trudeau mentions online music service Pandora as a great place to make mix tapes. We pinged Pandora founder Tim Westergren who says it was a "complete surprise" to see the plug. Yesterday's comic is above, and today's is below the jump.

Somewhere in midtown, the smell of chlorine hung heavy above the heads of a group of New Yorker cartoonists. They were at the bar at the Hotel QT, drinking free wine and vodka and celebrating their failures. Most of them were included in the second edition of The Rejection Collection: Cream of the Crap, a compilation of cartoons that didn't make the cut. Also there was Hendrick Hertzberg, who looks like Robert Redford and Warren Beatty and who, when Tina Brown was editor The New Yorker, was the cartoon editor. His friends call him Rick. I called him Rick. Am I his friend? Is he on Facebook? Provisional not yets on both questions. Also, if you, like me, thought the life of a New Yorker cartoonist was all doodling and fat paychecks, the gathered company was quick to disabuse us of that notion. Nikola Tamindzic was disabused too. So hard.

Cartoonist Hugh MacLeod shares his contribution to the Facebook extravaganza — he isn't nearly as interested obsessed with Facebook as we are. Well, to each his own. Maybe we'll write less than 10 Facebook-related posts today — but I doubt it. (Ed's. note: Don't you have a post about Facebook to write?)

This week's Time magazine has a list of the top 25 horror movies, and guess what comes in at number 20? Bambi. Finally someone said it! "Amazing that the first movies parents took their tots to in the 30s and 40s were the early Disney features," Time writes. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo all exploited childhood traumas. Parents disappear or die; stepmothers plot the murder of their charges; a boy skips school and turns into a donkey. Kids were so frightened by these films that they wet themselves in terror." Violent murder! Abandonment! Talking animals!We were so traumatized by the aforementioned tragic little fawn that we didn't watch another movie for, like, four years. We missed Indiana Jones and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure because of that fucking cartoon. Wretched Walt Disney.

So the womyn of Jezebel and our new cougar pal Erica Jong were very thrilled that feminist author Doris Lessing got the Nobel Prize for literature, but we were sort of less than thrilled and felt like the choice reeked of affirmative action girl style now. (We think Doris felt much the same!) Seriously, ladies (and mens!): have you read 'The Golden Notebook'? Really? While awake?

A secret thing that happened this past week is that Cond Nast finally launched a semi-respectable New Yorker website. Looks like that 1998 purchase of Wired is bearing fruit! Just like sister site vanityfair.com, which was re-made in October, the new newyorker.com is laid out all neo-classically (important stories are bigger!) and uses the Tinsley Mortimer of Web 2.0 typefaces, Georgia. But the really earth-shattering news: for apparently the first time ever, the magazine is facing temporality! Yes, folks, New Yorker cartoons are now animated.

• Apparently, having done it with Judy Garland has netted a whole book's worth of memories. [clubfreetime]
  

We can't recall the source of this anecdote but it concerns and old college roommate, a regular reader of the comic strip Nancy. When asked why he persisted in that habit the roommate replied, "Because one day it's going to be funny, and I want to be there." In any event, Sean Delonas of the Post: Is there possibly a less-talented cartoonist working today? We had to laugh when we saw this "specially commissioned" work of art in Page Six: the Magazine (making it the first time we've laughed at anything related to Delonas): Who "commissioned" it, the same person Delonas has the incriminating photos of? Honestly, does anyone out there find him amusing at all? E-mail us or respond in the comments; we're genuinely curious.

After a complaint by just one viewer in Britain, Turner Broadcasting is now going through 1,500 Hanna-Barbera cartoons in order to remove scenes that glamorize smoking. That's all it takes! One huffy complaint and you too could have little pieces of history destroyed (paging Mel Gibson!). Apparently, when Fred Flintstone lights up his Marlboro Lights, tens of thousands of impressionable youth are prompted to dress like cavemen and grab some nicotine sticks — and that simply cannot stand. Along with the Flintstones, classic cartoons like Tom and Jerry and Scooby-Doo will be similarly edited for offensive, smokey content. So are they just going to eliminate Shaggy altogether?

Between the new issue of Rolling Stone and the new issue of The Nation, cartoonist Robert Grossman is clearly, as the Observer notes, having his best week ever. At least until Jann Wenner and Katrina vanden Heuvel notice he sold basically the same image to two mags at the same time, and vow never to work with him again.