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If Warner Bros. Won’t Put Us Up at the Cartoon Network Hotel or Pay Us Sweet, Sweet Cash, It Should at Least Let Us Live in Its Water Tower

April 28, 2020May 4, 2020 The Dot and LineComments Off on If Warner Bros. Won’t Put Us Up at the Cartoon Network Hotel or Pay Us Sweet, Sweet Cash, It Should at Least Let Us Live in Its Water Tower

Look, this is pretty self-explanatory. What do you want, a road map?

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What Queer People Want the Future of Cartoons to Look Like

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 Elly BelleComment(1)

Queerness in cartoons has been subtextual for a long time, and a new generation of cartoons has brought it to the forefront. But there’s a lot more to be done.

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Let Us Now Pour One Out for Fry’s Dog in ‘Futurama’

April 28, 2020May 4, 2020 Eric Vilas-BoasComments Off on Let Us Now Pour One Out for Fry’s Dog in ‘Futurama’

What you see here is the manifestation of two universes.

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April 27, 2020May 1, 2020 The Dot and LineComment(1)

After a four-year run, it’s the end of the Line (and his little Dot, too). Your favorite scrappy cartoon journalism website has reached its finale. But we’re sending it off in style.

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To All the Toons I Loved Before

April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 Marley CruschComments Off on To All the Toons I Loved Before

A Dot and Liner pens her last love letters to the cartoons of her heart.

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Why My Parents Banned the ‘Ed, Edd n Eddy’ Catchphrase ‘Buttered Toast’ From Being Uttered in Our Home

April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 John MaherComments Off on Why My Parents Banned the ‘Ed, Edd n Eddy’ Catchphrase ‘Buttered Toast’ From Being Uttered in Our Home

Because I never! stopped! saying it!

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The Untold Saga of the Gross D+L Logos We Rejected and the One We Finally Picked

April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 Eric Vilas-BoasComments Off on The Untold Saga of the Gross D+L Logos We Rejected and the One We Finally Picked

Sometimes our designs are bad. Laughably bad.

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Tears for Toons, 2016-2020 (and a Long Time Before)

By John Maher

John Maher pens his final words on the Dot and Line.

Cartoon Dads, Ranked

By The Dot and Line

With only the finest — the pères de la pères — of animation. Happy Father’s Day!

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I Watched Cowboy Bebop for the First Time and Now Everything Makes Sense

By Joey Cosco

Even in a one-off episode about space truckers and thrash metal, the show is effortlessly cool and endlessly influential.

Ask Scratchy: My Grandpa’s an Abusive Alcoholic Space Criminal

By Dr. Scratchansniff

Morty of ‘Rick and Morty’ needs some advice, and our house head shrinker, Dr. Scratchansniff, is here to help.

Poetic Injustice: DreamWorks Animators Exiled to the Swamps

By John Maher

This is awful.

The Touching Thing You May Have Missed in the ‘Bojack’ Season Premiere Opening Credits

By Nicole Ortiz

This is a sweet tribute.

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Why Spike Raced Toward Death at the End of ‘Cowboy Bebop’

By Eric Vilas-Boas

He knew facing Vicious was a suicide mission. He did it anyway. Here's the moment Spike Spiegel’s sprezzatura spun out.

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‘Cowboy Bebop’ Isn’t the Only Show with a “Mushroom Samba”

By John Maher

Rounding up some of the silliest, spookiest, and all-around best trip episodes and sequences from your favorite cartoons.

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Rounding up some of the silliest, spookiest, and all-around best trip episodes and sequences from your favorite cartoons.

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