Cartoons and Animation

Ryan Quincy Talks About Transforming From Reluctant Voiceover Actor to Creator of the New IFC Show Out There

Emmy-winning animator Ryan Quincy has always dreamed of having his own show. During the decade and a half he spent working his way up to animation director for South Park, he spent his hiatuses creating a world entirely his own, inhabited by hairy but harmless creatures just trying to sort out the d ... More >>

Inside the World of L.A.'s Puppet Filmmakers

A movie must be completed before its screened, right? Not according to Graphation. Last night, in Downtown Los Angeles' Hive Gallery, the independent film group kickstarted their first installment of Works In Progress by presenting three unfinished films to an audience. The focus of the WIP seri ... More >>

Axe Cop, a Comic Book Character Created By a 5-Year-Old, Gets a Fox TV Show

You know who never gets writer's block? Five-year-olds. Probably the only reason they aren't all prolific novelists is they don't have the patience or know-how to do the typing. Lucky for 5-year-old Malachai Nicolle, he's got his 29-year-old comic illustrator brother, Ethan, to sketch his imaginin ... More >>

Equestria L.A.: Southern California Gets Its Own Brony Convention, for My Little Pony Fans

See also: *Top 5 Lessons for Adults From Friendship Is Magic *My Little Pony Project at Toy Art Gallery *Lauren Faust: Profile From Our People Issue *Lauren Faust on Childhood Toys and Pitching Animated Shows My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is the animation phenomenon of this decade. A childre ... More >>

Director Genndy Tartakovsky Chats About Hotel Transylvania, His Feature Debut

Wreck-It Ralph Influenced Not Only by Video Games But Harajuku, Gaudi and the San Diego Chargers

Wreck-It Ralph won't be in theaters until November, but the buzz for Disney's forthcoming animated film has already begun. Directed by Rich Moore (The Simpsons, Futurama), the movie stars John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch as video game characters whose lives are more comp ... More >>

Top 5 Cartoon Series You Need to Watch Before San Diego Comic-Con

See also: *14 Essential Items to Bring to Every Fan Convention *5 Essential Cosplay Tips for Beginners With two weeks to go until San Diego Comic-Con, news about panel appearances is just starting to hit the web. For animation fans, there's a lot in store from networks like Nickelodeon, Cartoon Net ... More >>

Lauren Faust: Let's Hear It for the Girls

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. "I've always looked at my work feeling like I was trying to make stuff for girls," says animator Lauren Faust, "and then accidentally getting guys interested as well." Faust, ... More >>

Adult Swim Takes Over Gallery 1988, From The Venture Bros. to Aqua Teen Hunger Force

See more photos in "The Best Art Inspired by Adult Swim." Gallery 1988 has hosted plenty of group shows that explore the influence of pop culture. From video games to cult films, Garbage Pail Kids to Watership Down, artists have come together at the Melrose Ave. space with a mission to transforms w ... More >>

Comikaze Expo 2011: First-Time Convention Brings Big Names, Big Crowd

Shannon CottrellTitmouse animation panel at Comikaze​See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's slideshow, "Comikaze Expo 2011." Jhonen Vasquez, creator of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Invader ZIM, is working with L.A.-based animation studio Titmouse on a few new projects. The catch is that he ... More >>

Power-Con/ThunderCon Brings Together Fans of He-Man, She-Ra and ThunderCats

Shannon CottrellSkeletor sighting at Power-Con/ThunderCon​See more of Shannon Cottrell's photos from Power-Con/ThunderCon in "Celebrating He-Man, She-Ra and ThunderCats at Power-Con/ThunderCon." It's not too often that we go to a convention and end up sitting poolside as we sip on themed cock ... More >>

Beavis and Butt-Head Returns to MTV October 27: Here's Our Top Ten Music Video Moments From the Old Show

Get More: Beavis and Butt-Head, MTV Shows It's official: The Beavis and Butt-Head re-boot now has a premiere date on MTV: Thursday, October 27th at 10PM. Exciting for fans, but will it be as edgy as it once was? When it debuted in 1993 Beavis and Butt-Head displayed a pathological lack of compass ... More >>

Nine Nation Animation Review

ThunderCats to Appear at San Diego Comic-Con Before Cartoon Network Premiere

Shannon CottrellEthan Spaulding, Michael Jelenic, Dan Norton of ThunderCats​ThunderCats art director Dan Norton has a sign in his office that reads, "This is the day you dreamed of when you were 12 years old." "I was a ridiculous ThunderCats fan," he says. "I mean, you would run home from ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con Announces Saturday, July 23 Schedule: Steampunk, Adventure Time, The Last Airbender, Robert Kirkman and More

Shannon CottrellSteampunk at San Diego Comic-Con 2010​More in "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Thursday July 21 Schedule: Bruce Campbell, Yoshiki, Stan Lee, Mike Judge and More." and "San Diego Comic-Con Announces Friday, July 22 Schedule: Doc Hammer, Jackson Publick, Chris Elliott, Wil Wheaton, ... More >>

San Diego Comic-Con Announces Friday, July 22 Schedule: Doc Hammer, Jackson Publick, Chris Elliott, Wil Wheaton, Felicia Day and More

Shannon CottrellDoc Hammer and Jackson Publick with amazing Venture Bros. cosplayers at SDCC 2010​San Diego Comic-Con just posted it's panel schedule for Friday, July 22. For fans of Adult Swim's cult favorite series, The Venture Bros., you'll want to mark this down (and prepare to get in line ... More >>

Cartoondown

Jonathan Gold Reviews Moore's Delicatessen

Today in WTF: Lee Scratch Perry Becoms Animated Character for Adult Swim Show!

​Jamaican god-level genius Lee "Scratch" Perry has been kind of an amazing cartoon character for decades now, but soon you'll be able too the "kind of" from that statement. Cartoon Network has commissioned and is currently test-screening footage of a new show based on the Major Lazer project ... More >>

Beloved 'Mad' Artists Sergio Aragones, Mort Drucker and More to Be Featured on Cartoon Network Series

Read more about the series in "'Mad' Magazine Gets Animated for Cartoon Network." Shannon Cottrell​ Monday night at 8:30 p.m. Mad, an animated TV show based on the humor magazine, will debut on Cartoon Network. One of the interesting aspects of the eleven-minute program is that it will includ ... More >>

'Mad' Magazine Gets Animated for Cartoon Network

Imagine that you're given the opportunity to turn a legendary humor magazine, something that you grew up reading, into a television show. Then imagine that you're asked to develop the show for prime time on a television network that caters to a rather young audience. This is the case with Mad, the n ... More >>

HEY EVERYBODY, IT'S SUMMERTIME! LET'S GO TO A THEME PARK!

Dino Stamatopoulos and Scott Adsit of 'Mary Shelley's Frankenhole' Talk Depressing Animation

Dino Stamatopoulos has an idea for a Christmas episode of Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, his latest stop-motion animation to hit Adult Swim. Shannon Cottrell​ "Elizabeth gets into Christmas and it's a hassle for [Frankenstein] so he goes back in time to try and stop the Virgin Mary from getting p ... More >>

'Adventure Time' Creator Pendleton Ward on Video Games, Zombies and Comic-Con

In Adventure Time, Finn, a young boy who uses exclamation like "algebraic!" and "mathematical!" even though he isn't very good with numbers, and his sharp canine pal Jake traverse the Land of Ooo, where they fight zombies, save princesses from the Ice King and embark a variety of other quests that ... More >>

Flashback: Six '90s Cartoons That Made an Impact

For those of us who grew up in the 1990s, one thing was certain, we would never be considered "too old" to watch cartoons. As both cable and network stations began adding more and more teen and adult-friendly animated programs, we stayed glued to the sets, whether we were trying to figure out what w ... More >>

THE TAO OF D'OH!

Screening Oscar Nominated Wallace and Gromit "A Matter of Loaf and Death" with Filmmaker Nick Park

Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit​This morning, beloved British stop motion animation duo, Wallace and Gromit, received their fifth Oscar nomination from the Motion Picture Academy. Though the pair have already won four Oscars for the animated short films A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trouser ... More >>

2009 in Animation: Something in the Way They Move

The most memorable characters were all about the art of the draw

L.A. Artist Allison Schulnik New Claymation Video for Grizzly Bear

Allison Schulnik is an L.A.-based artist known primarily for her self-described "goopy" oil paintings of clowns or hoboes or vaguely yeti-like creatures. They're kind of multi-colored Bondo meets the nether-spiritworld. But Schulnik, who was one of the artists in the Weekly's "Some Paintings" show ... More >>

PaleyFest: Fall TV Preview Parties Presented by TV Guide Magazine

Hanna-Barbera Exhibit

LA People 2009: Angus Oblong — This Clown's Life

His canceled cartoon lives on through Adult Swim and in real life

L.A. People: Phil LaMarr, the Voice

He's Cartoon Network's Samurai Jack, Green Lantern and Futurama's Hermes Conrad

Monster Toons

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim

Dyspeptic duo

The Simpsons Movie: Longer, Wider, Deeper

A 90-minute comic wind-up machine, the big-screen Simpsons Movie also goes for the heart

Robot Chicken: Star Wars

Turning George Lucas into an action figure

Our Inner Freak

Cartoon Network’s creepy and cuddly Imaginary Friends, plus the anti-Carrie single gal of TBS’s My Boys

El Doctor

Calarts in Moving Pictures: A Mini Tribute

Dream on Silly Dreamer

A Rock and a Hard Place

Huey and Riley, uncensored, invade basic cable; Chris Rock finds his sweet side

Poker with The Simpsons

Noses Off

The unperfumed pleasures of dog pee and monkey poo

Naughty Nick

Animation giant plays anti-union toon

Ambition and Delight

And beauty

Beyond Good and Evil

To the utterly adorable ass-kicking superheroics of the Powerpuff Girls!

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99

The Last Laugh

Chronicling the Hollywood cartoon

Life in the 31st Century

Matt Groening: Past, present, Futurama