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Pulitzer prize winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes shows us how she draws and animates her cartoons for the Washington Post.

The Lorax, the book by Dr. Seuss, is being made into a 3D movie featuring Danny DeVito voicing The Lorax according to USA Today. “Danny has this wonderful ability to be acerbic and grouchy but at the same time absolutely lovable,” Meledandri says. “It’s almost like Walter Matthau had. His comedic edge was very sharp, […]

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Alexander Anderson, best known for his creation of the 1959 animated program Rocky and His Friends and its 1961 spin-off The Bullwinkle Show, known collectively as The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, has passed away at the age of 90. After the war, Anderson went to work full-time for Terrytoons, in New Rochelle, N.Y. Movie attendance […]

The Fox Network has approved a six episode pilot for an animated “Napoleon Dynamite” for their 2011-2012 season. The show is based on the 2004 cult hit comedy and will bring the original cast back together to voice the series. Mike Scully (The Simspons) is also reportedly being brought in as a writer and executive […]

The Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano has published an article praising Matt Groening’s irreverent comedy The Simpsons and citing a magazine article by a Jesuit priest who maintains that Homer and Bart are Catholics. ”The Simpsons are one of the few TV programmes for children left in which Christian faith, religion and questions about God are […]

Caitlin Sanchez, the voice behind Dora the Explorer since 2007, has sued Nickelodeon for not properly compensating her. According to a statement issued by the lawyers representing Sanchez and her parents, the suit claims that Nickelodeon “took advantage of a hard-working teenage girl” and “charges that Caitlin and her parents were pressured into signing an […]

Warner Brothers is trying to push their legacy animation characters back into American pop-culture. New York Magazine is reporting that Warner Bros. is developing a life-action/CGI movie based on the love struck Pepe Le Pew which will be voiced by Shrek creator Mike Myers. The decision to reinvigorate the Looney Tunes cast of characters – […]

On Saturday night there was a special event open to the public entitled, “An Evening with Matt Groening.” It was a sell out crowd. The Doozies creator Tom Gammill introduced and interviewed Life in Hell, The Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Groening. The opened the evening with a 2 minute montage of clips for The […]

An Idaho middle school teacher has plead guilty to possession of animated child porn. The U.S. Attorney’s office said Steven Kutzner, 33, had downloaded more than 70 animated cartoon pornographic images on his computer. Many of them depicted child characters from The Simpsons. Kutzner was a former middle school teacher at Lake Hazel Middle School […]

Sunday night’s The Simpsons had an unusual opening. It had the normal intro with the family crashing into the living room to watch TV, but the opening extended into a dark depiction of sweatshops and environmentally unsafe working conditions for those who produce the animation. Very much a hand bitting the hand that feeds it […]

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The first animated MAD show on The Cartoon Network has been posted.

Tangled – Disney’s take on the classic story of Rapunzel is set to release on Nov. 24. New trailers are being released. Here is the new domestic and international trailer.H/T AnimatedNews

It’s confirmed. Drew Litton and Rich Moyer’s Monday Night Football animation has been green lighted by ESPN to be a weekly feature. Drew tells me that this is the “probably the best news I’ve had since the Rocky closed it’s doors over a year ago now.”Here’s the clip I posted on Monday:And of course, you’ll […]