Before Gomez and Morticia snapped their fingers, before Thing fetched the mail, before anyone was “altogether ooky,” Charles “Chas” Addams created the Addams Family and other strange characters in his many cartoons. Over a nearly 60-year career, Addams drew more than 1,300 cartoons, most (if not all) with great creativity ...

Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Kids love comics: for many, it’s a way to learn to read, with visuals and words tied together closely. Some picture books are almost like comics themselves, with the action taking place in the picture and most of the words consisting of dialogue ...

The official ThunderCats Mane Frame Facebook application is available NOW for fans to prove their worth by transforming themselves into a variety of ThunderCats characters and villains. Over the next four weeks Warner Bros. will make a total of 11 characters available through the ThunderCats Facebook page, unveiling 2-3 ...

The rebooted animated series' inaugural season resumes Friday night with "Berbils," in which the band of refugees encounter a village of robot bears in need of assistance. Watch an exclusive clip from this week's episode and get producer Michael Jelenic's vision for the show.

Growing up my kid sister loved this show – so like many things I suffered though watching it (instead of Thundercats or Transformers)… But none the less any child of the last 70′s and 80′s will know this show all too well! I’m sure I watched a lot of Jem ...

Shannon Wheeler is an incredibly prolific cartoonist. He’s probably best known for his underground comic Too Much Coffee Man, but he has also drawn comics for the New Yorker and has several other books that have come out recently. He won an Eisner Award this year for his comics collection ...

For those of us who grew up in the pre-cable era, cartoons were a rare treat. At best you could expect a couple of solid hours of toy tie-in animation after school on weekdays and a glowing Saturday lineup that always seemed to implode around noon. What we typically didn’t ...

Fanboy and his trusty sidekick, Chum Chum, are celebrating their favorite treat, a cup of Frosty Freezy Freeze in Fanboy and Chum Chum: Brain Freeze [amazon]. This DVD honors the Frosty Freezy Freeze with seven full-tilt, hilarious adventures with a voice cast that includes Josh Duhamel and Jamie Kennedy. Watch as they fight the discontinuation of their favorite flavor, try to create the new Frosty Mart ...

It’s the 25th anniversary of Pixar Animation Studios, the obscenely-successful cartoon company that has pretty much revolutionized the animation business. The company began in 1979 as the humble Graphics Group, once part of Lucasfilm; then it was snagged by Steve Jobs over at Apple in 1986, before finally being bought by The ...

Is Gender Selection of a Fetus Ethical?: But this technology is igniting a heated ethical debate before it is even clinically available. Many fear that it will be used for a reason that has nothing to do with medical outcomes. They fear parents will use it for sex selection, aborting ...