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Why We’ll Never See a Show Like ‘The Critic’ Again
Could anyone, even Jay Sherman, filter through the cacophony of voices in today’s fandom?
10 Years After ‘Boondocks,’ the Block Is Still Hot
With ‘The Boondocks,’ Aaron McGruder told a story of racial disparity, injustice, and violence that has not gone away.
‘Venture Bros.’ Animation Director Kimson Albert’s Nicknames, Ranked
The former ‘Venture Bros.’ animation director (2004–2016) regularly included his favorite quotation from each episode as a nickname in the credits. Here are our favorites.
Farewell to Clay Martin Croker
The longtime Adult Swim animator and voice actor joins Space Ghost far too soon.
Poetic Injustice: DreamWorks Animators Exiled to the Swamps
This is awful.
The Secret History of ‘Darkwing Duck’ and a Plea for Its Future
“When there’s trouble, you call Dee Double-U! Darkwing Duck!” This was heroic TV, tasty as duck confit.
Read or Watch Miyazaki Films. Or Both!
As someone who writes about books by day and about cartoons by all the rest of the times, very little makes me happier than to read something about both. Well, here’s the good news! Literary Hub published just such a something today with Gabrielle Bellot’s “The Magic of Hayao Miyazaki’s Literary Imagination,” and it turned […]
‘Over the Garden Wall’ Made the Bassoon Cool Again for You and Me
Our back to school special! Here’s how Cartoon Network’s first miniseries obsessed over woodwinds in the best way possible.
At the End of ‘Cowboy Bebop’ All I Could Think About Was My Dead Mom
The best anime of all time can’t help but remind you of that weight you’re already carrying.