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  1. the industry
    All of the Girls From Girls Will Be on The SimpsonsSpringfield’s about to get very hip.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  2. tv
    Major Lazer’s FXX Cartoon Series Looks Out of This WorldIt premieres April 16.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  3. A Look at the 2015 Oscar-Nominated Animated ShortsIt’s a strange thing to see the 2015 Oscar-nominated animated shorts and Mortdecai on the same day. But that’s what I did a few days ago, for […]
    By Eddie Brawley
  4. animation
    Exploring the Hidden Racist Past of the Looney TunesLet’s shed some light on an occasionally fascinating – and often appalling – corner of an American institution.
    By Matt Crowley
  5. Puck Magazine and the Birth of Modern Political CartooningIn the late 19th Century, long before Mad Magazine and the Daily Show, there was Puck. The magazine helped to change the very nature of […]
    By Alex Dueben
  6. #donald4spiderman
    Donald Glover Is Going to Play Spider-Man (in a Cartoon, But Still)Baby steps.
    By Abraham Riesman
  7. turtle power never dies
    Watch a Video About the Bizarre History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesWatch our three-minute whirlwind TMNT retrospective.
    By Abraham Riesman
  8. life animated
    See Nicki Minaj As a Four-Armed Cartoon Giant on Steven Universe“I forgot how great it feels to be me.”
    By E. Alex Jung
  9. The ‘Gas Leak Year’ of ‘The Boondocks’For its first three seasons, The Boondocks, which followed inner-city siblings Huey and Riley Freeman’s adjustment to life in the predominantly […]
    By Jimmy J Aquino
  10. tv
    Talking to the Writers of X-Men: Animated Series“No winking at the camera, no ‘writing down’ to a comic-book audience.”
    By Matt Patches
  11. ‘Rick and Morty’, ‘Bob’s Burgers’, and ‘American Dad!’: Three Cartoons at […]Due to the nature of animation, cartoons can last a lot longer than live action shows. Characters don’t age, so the 4th grade can be played out […]
    By John Hugar
  12. pilots 2014
    Netflix Picks Up Will Arnett, Aaron Paul CartoonAbout a horse who used to be a TV star.
    By Margaret Lyons
  13. seth macfarlane’s cavalcade of cartoon comedy
    Fox Is Getting a New Seth MacFarlane Show Yes, another one.
    By Delia Paunescu
  14. across the streaming-verse
    Watch These Five Key Episodes of the Nineties X-Men Cartoon Right NowAll 76 episodes of the original series are available to watch on Marvel.com, and they’re eye-opening.
    By Matt Patches
  15. cartoons
    Watch an Animated Louis C.K. Tell Jokes As God God is not happy with how we’re treating his Earth.
    By Jesse David Fox
  16. The Gross Mess That Was the ‘Garbage Pail Kids’ CartoonSometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
    By Matt Schimkowitz
  17. Sufferin’ Succotash! Looney Tunes Voice Actor Joe Alaskey On Bugs Bunny, […]Bugs Bunny. Daffy Duck. Yosemite Sam. Marvin the Martian. These animated icons would have been silenced years ago if not for Joe Alaskey, the […]
    By James Greene and Jr.
  18. The Complete Guide to Everything Christmas Specials Christmas Special […]This week we cover the holiday TV specials: How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Polar Express, A Charlie Brown Christmas, I Want a Dog for […]
    By Splitsider Editors
  19. Can You Best Elaine Benes in ‘New Yorker’ Captioning?This cartoon was used in “The Cartoon” episode of Seinfeld. You know the one where Elaine accidentally steals a Ziggy. Well, now the New Yorker […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  20. Nick Weidenfield is Bringing Crazy, Weird, Unironic Animation to FoxAfter spending seven years heading up development over at Adult Swim, Nick Weidenfield is in the process of creating a very similar late-night […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  21. supercuts
    Watch a Supercut of Sexual Innuendo in CartoonsBugs Bunny, you cad!
    By Eliot Glazer
  22. animation
    See Early Sketches of Eleven Famous Cartoon CharactersIt’s nice to see Marge Simpsons’s upper lip leveled out.
    By Eliot Glazer
  23. teenage mutant ninja turtles
    See the (Rumored) First Sketch Ever of the Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesOnce upon a time, the turtles were in black and white.
    By Eliot Glazer
  24. Watch a New Yorker Cartoonist Doodle and Chat at the Same Time Here’s a video interview with New Yorker cartoonist Matt Diffee, in which he discusses the business of “drawing funny” and also doodles a […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  25. Bill Murray, Steve Martin, and Bugs Bunny: The Looney Tunes 50th […]In the 1970s and 1980s, Warner Bros. did not take great care with its animation legacy. The studio spit out a new, clumsily assembled “special” […]
    By Matthew Callan
  26. Watch the Media-Conspiracy TV Funhouse Segment SNL Banned in 1998 Marc Maron just Tweeted the link to this video, a Robert Smigel-written TV Funhouse segment in which the educational program Conspiracy Theory […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  27. slideshow
    See the Parks and Recreation Characters As CartoonsLeslie Knope would be adorable animated.
    By Jon Defreest
  28. exclusive
    Justin Theroux to Create Cartoon for FoxIt will be about a liberal, present-day Archie Bunker type who pines for the nineties and loathes his New York surroundings.
    By Josef Adalian
  29. mindy kaling
    Mindy Kaling Will Write and Voice a Prime-Time CartoonAbout a girls’ high school volleyball team.
    By J. Paul O'Connor
  30. drive
    See What Drive Would Look Like As an Animated ShortAnimators Tom Haugomat and Bruno Mangyoku turn the gory “car noire” (our term!) into an equally gory cartoon, scorpion jacket unchanged.
    By Eliot Glazer
  31. The Strange Fad of Comedian-Based Saturday Morning CartoonsMaria Bamford has a great bit about how she wants to have a TV sitcom someday called Me, My Mom, and a Monster, in which she, her mother, and a […]
    By Brian Boone
  32. movies
    Woody Woodpecker Feature Film in DevelopmentMakers of Despicable Me and The Lorax behind project.
  33. Cartoonists’ 9/11 Tributes, CollectedAlmost 100 comic strip artists used their Sunday strips this week to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11. They range from simple visual […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  34. Demetri Martin Working on an Animated Show for FoxTime to send that easel back to the great…Easel Maker in the sky: Fox is reportedly getting close to a presentation order for Demetri Martin’s […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  35. Daniel Tosh Brings Brickleberry To Comedy CentralSadly, Daniel Tosh’s Brickleberry is not a flavor of limited-run ice cream like I’d momentarily thought. My brain, constantly trying to find […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  36. Black Dynamite Saves Your Ass Again In Adult Swim Pilot If anyone could prevent forest fires, it is almost certainly Black Dynamite. Adult Swim has posted the Black Dynamite pilot, and it’s filled […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  37. clickables
    See Jaws Reimagined With Peanuts CharactersHappiness is needing a bigger boat.
    By Margaret Lyons
  38. Tiny Fuppets About To Take America By Storm Why, these Tiny Fuppets are like nothing I’ve ever seen. It’s like they always say: the fanboat is the birthplace of all great Portuguese […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  39. clickables
    Check Out the Comprehensive Cartoon Color WheelThe Orange Cartoon Lobby has been falling down on the job.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  40. ‘It’s All My Fault, Although I Also Blame Others": The Curious Case of the […]In 1988, Martin Short collaborated with fellow SCTV alumni Catherine O’Hara, Joe Flaherty, and Andrea Martin, plus legendary comedian Jonathan […]
    By Matthew Callan
  41. 20 Years Later, Looking Back at the Twisted Genius of Ren and StimpyRen and Stimpy turns 20 years old this summer, and I kicked off celebrations by watching one of my favorite episodes, Space Madness. It opens […]
    By AJ Aronstein
  42. Wonderful: Fozzie Bear on WTF with Marc MaronThis cartoon by Skottie Young is pretty much perfect. He’s selling the original drawing, too, if you’re interested. Own something that will […]
    By Adam Frucci
  43. clickables
    Learn Physics With My Little Pony: Friendship Is MagicKinematics! Whatever those are.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  44. clickables
    Read Roger Ebert’s Winning New Yorker Cartoon CaptionHe finally won!
    By Amanda Dobbins
  45. Mort Feingold: Accountant For The Stars, Meet Alan Kaufman: Rock Star […]Following this weekend’s SNL, cartoonist Dan Meth is wondering if “Mort Feingold: Accountant For The Stars” ripped off “Alan Kaufman: Rock Star […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  46. clickables
    Watch a Maybe-Promising Trailer for the ThunderCats RemakeThundercats hoooooooooo!
    By Amanda Dobbins
  47. clickables
    Read 3eanuts, the Peanuts’ Answer to Garfield Minus GarfieldLucy is really struggling.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  48. clickables
    Watch the CBBC’s Delightful Animated Series About a Crime-Fighting Rasta MouseKids, help your parents find their cheese.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  49. Conan’s Superhero Alter Ego, The Flaming C, Comes to Life This is fun: Conan worked with some animators at Warner Brothers Animation to create a ridiculous superhero called the Flaming C. It’s like […]
    By Adam Frucci
  50. clickables
    Read a Collection of New Yorker Cartoons With Literal Captions“I’m an alien.”
    By Amanda Dobbins
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