It’s not uncommon for a cartoon character to steal the spotlight, only to suddenly disappear without a trace. Regardless of the cause, these cartoon icons have left us with many questions. Here's a ...

Since the dawn of time (animation time at least), people who aren’t in the know have categorised Japanese anime and American cartoons under the umbrella term of ‘animation’, expecting them both to ...

Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its ...