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The image above is of Charlee, a fan of the Avatar series, who
protested the live-action film’s racially questionable casting …

Flash

Powerpuff Girls Are Flashier Than Ever

by Amid Amidi   Tuesday January 20, 2009   11:36 pm

Earlier this week, Cartoon Network premiered a new episode of
The Powerpuff Girls in honor of the show’s tenth anniversary. …

TV

That Guy With The Glasses reviews Nicktoons

by Jerry Beck   Wednesday January 7, 2009   2:00 pm

And let me also take the opportunity to plug this book.

TV

Hornswiggle

by Jerry Beck   Monday December 22, 2008   6:00 am

Well, imagine my surprise when I sat down to watch Saturday’s
installment of Random Cartoons (10:30am/1:30pm on Nicktoons …

TV

New Star Trek trailer

by Jerry Beck   Wednesday December 17, 2008   4:30 pm

The wacky folks at NEO f/x took the soundtrack from this trailer
for the upcoming Star Trek movie and combined it with …

TV

Jstache

by Amid Amidi   Friday December 12, 2008   4:07 am

There are bad animation ideas, and then there are ideas so
utterly imbecilic that make you wish you had never become …

Shorts

Random Cartoons start today!

by Jerry Beck   Saturday December 6, 2008   12:05 am

Starting today, the Nicktoons Network presents Frederator
Studios’ Random! Cartoons each Saturday and Sunday at 10:30am …

CGI

Studio aka’s Lost and Found

by Amid Amidi   Wednesday December 3, 2008   6:46 pm

Studio aka has completed a 25-minute film adaptation of the
children’s book Lost and Found. The film, directed by Philip …

Shorts

Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death

by Amid Amidi   Monday December 1, 2008   8:15 am

Cracking good news! Wallace and Gromit, who haven’t starred in
anything significant since the 2005 feature The Curse of the …

TV

Fox dumps Cartoons for Infomercials

by Jerry Beck   Tuesday November 25, 2008   12:56 pm

Another one bites the dust. Variety reported yesterday that
the Fox broadcast network will abandon running cartoons on …

TV

Locomotion I.D.’s

by Jerry Beck   Wednesday November 19, 2008   3:00 am

Here are eight station IDs for the late great Locomotion channel
(1996-2005), a wonderfully programmed Latin American …

TV

Animaniacs Splatter

by Jerry Beck   Sunday November 16, 2008   12:05 am

(Thanks, Thad K)

TV

New Warner Bros. Animation logo

by Jerry Beck   Thursday November 13, 2008   2:00 pm

Along with tomorrow night’s debut of Warner Bros. Animation’s
latest take on Batman, Batman: the Brave and the Bold, (Cartoon …

Classic

Bill and Joe Show You How It’s Done

by Amid Amidi   Tuesday November 11, 2008   1:36 pm

This 1961 film clip of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera explaining the
TV animation process is well worth a view. There’s a lot of …

CGI

Rocket Jo by Julien Charles

by Amid Amidi   Thursday October 30, 2008   5:09 am

It’s plenty refreshing to see a CG character that is designed
with a sense of caricature in both his appearance and physical …