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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.

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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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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!?

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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

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Poem: “I Am An Experience”

By Maya Gittelman

A poem for the gems of ‘Steven Universe.’ And for me.

We Need to Talk About the Quiet Pain of Pearl on Steven Universe

By Eric Vilas-Boas

We must now reckon with the new episodes of Rebecca Sugar’s emotional ticking time bomb.

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Will ‘All Dogs’ Ever Go to Criterion Heaven?

By Eric Vilas-Boas

A bone to pick with the great librarians of cinema.

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Why People Are Still Obsessed With ‘Samurai Jack’

By Eric Vilas-Boas

Spoiler-free arguments for why it’s one of the most artfully crafted shows in TV history.

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‘Batman and Harley Quinn’ Is a Movie With So. Many. Problems.

By Eric Vilas-Boas

‘Batman and Harley Quinn’ disses its own leading lady for cheap laughs.

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How Treize Manipulated Everyone in ‘Gundam Wing’

By Eric Vilas-Boas

Meet the Gundam franchise’s Dick Cheney. Or Lyndon B. Johnson. Or Stringer Bell. Really, take your pick.

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My Hero Academia Gears Up for an Epic Fight in “Symbol of Peace”

By Sarra Sedghi

Character development and a last-chance rescue heat up the conflict.

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Macie and Me, and the Little Seal Girl Makes Three

By Corinne Segal

On the subtle queer feminism of 'As Told By Ginger.'

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