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Some Cartoons We Barely, If Ever, Covered That You Goons Have to Now That We’re Gone

April 29, 2020April 27, 2020 The Dot and LineComments Off on Some Cartoons We Barely, If Ever, Covered That You Goons Have to Now That We’re Gone

The media needs to cover cartoons better. Here’s a place it can start.

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Words That We Didn’t Write

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 The Dot and LineComments Off on Words That We Didn’t Write

We wrote a lot of words on the Dot and Line. But it could have been so much worse. We could have written these.

Interviews That's All Folks

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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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.

The Questing Beast in Arthur Rackham's illustration for Alfred W. Pollard's 'The Romance of King Arthur' (1917). (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
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Giveth Sir Palamedes and the Questing Beast an Animated Series, Thou Churls!

April 8, 2020August 20, 2021 John MaherComments Off on Giveth Sir Palamedes and the Questing Beast an Animated Series, Thou Churls!

Hark, thou televisual and cinematic executive knaves! I ask thee: whither the Questing Beast!?

Movies

An Urgent Question About ‘The Pagemaster’

January 13, 2020March 21, 2020 Rebecca LongComments Off on An Urgent Question About ‘The Pagemaster’

IS IT STILL GOOD!?

TV

An Urgent Question About ‘Freakazoid!’

August 7, 2019March 21, 2020 Sean Fitz-GeraldComments Off on An Urgent Question About ‘Freakazoid!’

IS IT STILL GOOD!?

EDITORS PICKS

My Best Friend’s Opinion on Space Jam is Violently Wrong

By John Maher

I mean, how do I even edit a site with this Eric guy???

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

By Eric Vilas-Boas

Sometimes our designs are bad. Laughably bad.

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How a Cartoon Corgi Hooked Me on ‘Cowboy Bebop’

By Charlotte Dow

“Stray Dog Strut” is for all you dog-lovers out there.

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How ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Came to the States: An Exclusive Interview for Its 20th Anniversary

By The Dot and Line

With “Asteroid Blues,” the first session of ‘Cowboy Bebop,’ Cartoon Network brought something wholly new to the West.

Steve Sklepic, Cartoon-Loving Tattoo Artist, on How Animation Has Shaped Him

By Rob Ryan

One man's toon is another man's tattoo at Sklepic's shop.

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In Defense of “Gateway Shuffle”—The Lamest Entry of ‘Bebop’

By Eric Vilas-Boas

This may be the show’s worst episode, but its final minutes are a sci-fi thrill ride. Pour one out for the space seals.*

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An Oral History of the Phrase “Get Shrek’d”

By Dan Powell

The secret story of one of the greatest, dumbest animation-referencing jokes of all time.

An Extremely Serious Ranking of the Children in Adult Cartoons

By Danica Chen

Seriously.

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