Even fictional people have to eat. Sometimes food reveals what we should know about a character, sometimes it’s a pleasant pause in the action, sometimes it’s a crucial staging platform for exposition ...

Bob Mankoff returns to talk about a cartoon from the November 3rd issue of the magazine, and to answer a reader question: Does he think any cartoons are truly “ungettable”? that I like to talk about.

For nearly as long as comic book companies like Marvel and DC Comics have been around, the iconic characters from the medium have been brought to life in alternate forms like live-action films, ...

In 2020, it can be hard to remember how dire the state of American animated television was not so long ago. In the 1980s, repetitive adventure series designed to sell action figures, like Transformers ...

Do you remember the cartoons of the 1980s? Filled with more macho bravado than one believed actually possible? The gender-reinforcing tropes of the late 80s and 90s are becoming obsolete, and I say ...