Tag: Cartoons

Well, to be fair, the sixth season debuted last night, so a big media push is only natural. Emily Nussbaum did the honors for The New Yorker, citing "a hero who fights villains,...

Yessss! The Art of the Venture Brothers will be a huge collection of original artwork, character designs, storyboards, painted backgrounds, and props from every episode of The Venture Bros. with accompanying commentary on the development of the series from cocreators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer. And as you know, those guys can commentate with the best of them. If you clicked the above link, you will have seen the list price is $39.99. Patton Oswalt pens a foreword. 


Giancarlo Volpe, showrunner of Green Lantern the Animated Series has drawn a comic about a focus group test of the cartoon. It's an interesting behind the scenes of how the testers said the...

There was much rejoicing last week when it was announced 80s cartoon mainstay Jem and The Holograms is coming back as a live-action movie, with the production crowd sourced in some cases. . The movie will be directed by Jon Chu who previously made both Step Up and GI Joe Retaliation, which is the perfect resume for a movie about a female rock band that has adventures.

Following their huge success with their Adventure Time and Regular Show comics, Boom! Studios has signed a "first look" deal with Cartoon Network, meaning they get first crack at getting the license to adapt...

Once again, Hollywood confabulates and celebrates the best of motion picture arts and sciences March 2, at the 86th Academy Awards.  Among the many awards will be two showcasing the best in animation: Animated...

Just in case you didn't get up to see Thor announce this year's Academy Award nominations—Inside Llewyn Davis wuz robbed!—here's a cheat sheet to just the ones that nerds are interested in: Best Animated Feature: The...

James Kochalka's unspell-out-able in a family website superheroes are back in a special digital only release called: SuperF*ckers Save Christmas. YOu can purchase it on Comixology. Currently starring in a web series...

Okay, so there's this new software thinger called Plotagon and once you upload your screenplay and make a few other settings it uses Sims-like animation to make a little movie out of it....

I haven't really been following all the animated DC cartoon news, but Beware the Batman, the dark (!) CGI cartoon telling Batman's early days and team-up with Katana, has been pulled by the Cartoon...

The main reason Disney acquired Marvel was to finally break open the boy market bank, and their simple plan worked pretty well. They're even conquering Japan, it was just announced, with "the first Japanese Marvel animated television series targeted at boys." It's called Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers. "Disk" wars, eh That sound highly, highly toyetic.

A tiny snippt of a lost project that would have animated Chester Brown's great graphic novel of Canadian history.