Sam and Max started out as a comic, turned into a computer gaming franchise, and eventually made it a season as part of the Fox Kids Saturday morning lineup.

Sure, we all love Snoopy on holidays, but what happens to Charlie Brown when the pumpkins rot and the tree comes down? The Peanuts gang keeps going, that's what they do, so why not keep enjoying their animated adolescent coping?

One of the Chicago men charged in October with plotting to murder the guy who drew the controversial Danish Muhammad cartoon is now also charged with planning the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks. Murderous cartoon-hatred is a surefire craziness indicator.[NYT]

Video via Jenny 8 Lee, and credit where it's due: Ryan Tate offered that the "U.S. should license Hello Kitty for some kind of Guantanamo infomercial." Not bad. Who else could benefit from cute, cuddly characters to calm the nerves of a populace about to have their lives dramatically changed by people who want to control the world?

Everybody loved ALF in the 1980s, but it wasn't until the Emmy winning cartoon hit the airwaves that anybody really understood him. His name was Gordon, and before his planet of Melmac was blown to smithereens he had a family.

A celebration in honor of a culture as vibrant as self-tanner for tonight's premiere of MTV's Jersey Shore. To herald this momentous occasion, a visual offering of bro commentary on Snorlax, their proclaimed patron Pokémon. Happy Frickin' Jersey Thursday!

Frosty the Snowman was at one point just a snowman. An object, doomed to melt from inevitable warmth. When a magical hat is placed atop Frosty's head, he not only becomes animated, but he must warm his chilled loins.

On December 3rd, 1964 NBC aired a yule-tide classic, and a sort of break-through in the world of stop motion animation.

In the 80's it wasn't uncommon to believe that a Saturday morning without an animated avatar of Michael J. Fox isn't really a Saturday morning at all.

November 27, 2005- Happy Birthday Andy Merrill. The voice actor helped create the lineup that would eventually evolve into adult swim, and voiced everyone's favorite cartoon talk show host.

Plucky Duck remembers a childhood trip to the miniature golf course. Baby Plucky's catchphrase "Blue ball go down the hole," became popular on playground throughout the 1990's, and is best left without reevaluation.

Can you make a funnier cartoon than us in the new New Yorker online "Cartoon Kit?" Christ, I hope so. Submit yours in the comments, and win the admiration of your peers. That's what it's all about, we hear.

Back in 2001 Cartoon Network ran this updated version of Scooby Doo with comedian David Cross, TV's Gary Coleman, and now-outdated swing band, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. It's the Scooby Doo that should have been.

Here, an new animated short video celebrating the day that Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while blind-tripping on acid. Truly one of the greatest American drug accomplishments of the 20th century. Learn your history, kids. [James Blagden]

Who says you're too old to watch cartoons on weekends? On Saturday mornings we'll serve you up a cartoon or two to watch while you're enjoying cereal in pajamas. This first episode of Jem originally aired in 1985.

Oxendine actually emailed reporters, last night, to prepare them for this amazing clip. And:

Speaking of idiotic uproars over cartoons, at colleges: The guy who drew the Danish Muhammad cartoon that set off worldwide riots is coming to Yale—the provincial little school whose University Press allows religious psychos to dictate what it publishes.

Oh look, the black cartoonist Keith Knight dared to draw a black guy in a noose in this recent K Chronicles strip, and now "Students at a western Pennsylvanian school are outraged." Shut up, Slippery Rock University.