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Ted Cruz Is Pretty Hot As a Cartoon No presidential candidate’s distorted self-image has ever been this vividly drawn.
By Eric Levitz
the industry
Nov. 17, 2015
By Eric King
The Dark, Angry Father of ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’ David Seville never really existed at all, and yet there have been at least three of him in the last 60 years. Dave, of course, is the human […]
By Joe Blevins
Ren, Stimpy, and the Horrors of Manliness With tonight’s debut of The Splat!, a much-hyped late-night programming block on TeenNick consisting of vintage Nickelodeon shows from the […]
By Joe Blevins
the industry
Apr. 22, 2015
Get Ready for That Animated Spider-Man Movie And on the seventh day the Sony hacks were given life.
By Sean Fitz-Gerald
the industry
Apr. 16, 2015
By Sean Fitz-Gerald
A Look at the 2015 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts It’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
international intrigue
Feb. 3, 2015
Palestinian Leader Pissed Over Pro-Muhammad Cartoon Shortly after marching in support of freedom of speech.
By Katie Zavadski
international intrigue
Nov. 3, 2014
By Katie Zavadski
Exploring the Hidden Racist Past of the Looney Tunes Let’s shed some light on an occasionally fascinating – and often appalling – corner of an American institution.
By Matt Crowley
Puck Magazine and the Birth of Modern Political Cartooning In 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
#donald4spiderman
Aug. 26, 2014
By Abraham Riesman
turtle power never dies
Aug. 6, 2014
By Abraham Riesman
life animated
July 27, 2014
By E. Alex Jung
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
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
‘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
pilots 2014
Dec. 11, 2013
By Margaret Lyons
seth macfarlane’s cavalcade of cartoon comedy
Nov. 9, 2013
By Delia Paunescu
across the streaming-verse
July 26, 2013
Watch These Five Key Episodes of the Nineties X-Men Cartoon Right Now All 76 episodes of the original series are available to watch on Marvel.com, and they’re eye-opening.
By Matt Patches
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
The Gross Mess That Was the ‘Garbage Pail Kids’ Cartoon Sometimes 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
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.
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
fashion illustrations
Oct. 26, 2012
Grace Coddington Sketched Her Life for New Book They’re not real memories unless you can draw them.
By Ally Betker
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
Nick Weidenfield is Bringing Crazy, Weird, Unironic Animation to Fox After 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
See Early Sketches of Eleven Famous Cartoon Characters It’s nice to see Marge Simpsons’s upper lip leveled out.
By Eliot Glazer
teenage mutant ninja turtles
Apr. 25, 2012
By Eliot Glazer
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
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
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
Justin Theroux to Create Cartoon for Fox It will be about a liberal, present-day Archie Bunker type who pines for the nineties and loathes his New York surroundings.
By Josef Adalian
mindy kaling
Dec. 8, 2011
By J. Paul O'Connor
See What Drive Would Look Like As an Animated Short Animators Tom Haugomat and Bruno Mangyoku turn the gory “car noire” (our term!) into an equally gory cartoon, scorpion jacket unchanged.
By Eliot Glazer
The Strange Fad of Comedian-Based Saturday Morning Cartoons Maria 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
Woody Woodpecker Feature Film in Development Makers of Despicable Me and The Lorax behind project.
Cartoonists’ 9/11 Tributes, Collected Almost 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
Demetri Martin Working on an Animated Show for Fox Time 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
Daniel Tosh Brings Brickleberry To Comedy Central Sadly, 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
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
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
Check Out the Comprehensive Cartoon Color Wheel The Orange Cartoon Lobby has been falling down on the job.
By Amanda Dobbins
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