Cartoons

One of Japan's best-known exports, its unique style of animation, faces a new crisis -- a disruption in production following the recent earthquake and tsunami. The multi-billion-dollar "anime" industry has already been challenged by overseas competition and high employee turnover at home.

Alexander Anderson Jr., the creator of the television cartoon characters "Rocky" the flying squirrel and "Bullwinkle" the moose, died at a rest home near his Pebble Beach, Calif., home, last Friday. He was 90.

My jaw hit the floor when I read the "what could they be thinking?" announcement that Microsoft had commissioned an entire half-hour special by the maker and cast of the adult cartoon hit "Family Guy". The show was to include plugs embedded in the narrative extolling the virtues of its new Windows...

Note- Two of our bloggers shared a passion for this It product, so we asked both of them to share their memories. As a kid, my Saturday morning cartoon line-up included The Smurfs, Pee-wee's Playhouse and My Little Pony. (Oh, how I miss those days!) Not only did a sense of right and wrong come from...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. The comics page of my newspaper lost interest for me on January 1st, 1995. That was the day that Gary Larson, author of the single-panel strip The Far Side, put down his inking pen, leaving those...