…but it came to stores several months before the public had gotten its first glimpse of the cartoon. The toy line flopped before it had a chance to be properly…

…names, big catch Sigourney Weaver embarrasses herself, confusing cartoon-evil acting as the stepmother Frieda with overacting, chewing up the scenery and shouting out her lines with maniacal glee, but not…

…another Pluto cartoon in which he faces off opposite Melvin and Milton, a pair of goofy Siamese cats that caused multiple disruptions in Disney cartoons long before Si and Am…

…been wary of the idea that we need to convince kids of Santa Claus’s existence). The designs by Paul Coker, Jr. are very pleasant, especially for the mice. (I tend…

…magnate William Gaines and cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman when pressure groups were coming down hard on Gaines’ E.C. Comics brand of pulp horror stories such as Tales From The Crypt, Mad…

…its native French original, shot in motion-capture and cel-shaded not to look like a cartoon, but to look like the hard inked lines of a black and white comic book….

…Happy Feet sure has a lot of strange beats. Is This Thing Loaded? Being an animated – and therefore “kids” – title, Warners have gone their usual route and supplied…

…again. I remember the Richie Rich comics and digests reasonably well, though today’s kids are more likely to remember the Macaulay Culkin movie version that came out in 1994, ironically…

…you had to be a couple of years younger at least. Flash forward several years and now that the inmates are running the asylums (as in the kids growing up…

…be the hit of the village. The back of the DVD case reads as follows: “…appeal to a whole new generation of tech-savvy kids”. I was thinking there would be…

…its Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection line, and I couldn’t be happier. Many of their best series already came to retail DVD a few years ago, but some of us classic cartoon…

…and the cartoon specials for years to come. The beauty of casting Linus in the role of Great Pumpkin disciple is that he is normally the steady, practical voice of…

…sloppy, and the show exemplifies much of what was bad about 1980s syndicated cartoons; but the show is not a total loss, as the strength of the classic characters can…

…in fact much truer to the 1940s originals than anything DC Comics has published since then. I was always an easy mark for superhero cartoons, particularly any cartoons based upon…

…Muppet Babies and The Flintstone Kids. The trend would even continue with the popular Tiny Toon Adventures that would usher in a new era at Warner Animation. In fact, it…