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The Strangest Strange Cartoon
Plus: 'Genius Loci' and global animation news.
The FUNNIEST Chinese Anime...
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Cartoon Corner: The Owl House Review
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Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
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The “Beat” Goes On
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The Birth of the 'Peanuts' Cartoon Series
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Son of Ultimate Cartoon Classic – The Cartoon Milk Hall of Fame of Excellent Animation
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50+ Cartoon Cosplay Ideas
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Chilling with Cartoon Compilations
When you dunno what to do, it's good to watch a bunch of cartoons.
Josei Beat
Discovering manga for adults via Viz's Shojo Beat imprint
Beat & Motion
If I could make this episode description the one expression all of these characters make in this series, I would. 8:33 - Beat & Motion 37:04 - Ichi the Witch…
Cartoon Pulse: Episode One – The Cowardly Martians
It's a brand new show! Joseph and Andrew have quit Anime reviews, and are moving to the West to tackle cartoons. In our inaugural episode we talk about…
Footrot Flats: An Okay Cartoon
An attempt to articulate apathy towards an animated adaptation.
Cartoon Research Card Catalog: “Batman: The Animated Interviews”
Our new monthly check-in on publications, periodicals, and peeks at important animation books - past and present.
Happy After-Christmas Cartoon: “The Little Toy Soldier”
I sort of enjoyed this little film and the bizarre nature of this little tale.
Manga Review:Skip Beat!
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Review: Chinese Doctors (2021)
Chinese Doctors 中国医生 China, 2021, colour, 2.35:1, 127 mins. Director: Liu Weiqiang 刘伟强 [Andrew Lau]. Rating: 6/10. Wuhan-set Covid drama has a propulsive, convincing first half but slacker,…
Chinese Dramas and Rambles
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The Manga Review: We Got The Beat
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Visual Kei&Anime – The Brow Beat
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97: The Sickos Get Bootleg Chinese Gameboys
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Four Magical Minutes from Cartoon Saloon
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Howard Beckerman: Cartoon Characters Move People
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Three Mini-Reviews of Cartoon Films
Sometime in the last few weeks, I decided to create a Letterboxd list of all the feature-length films I’ve seen so far in the year of arlord 2025,…
Drawn Together: Remembering “Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue”
This TV special brought together animated characters from different studios.
Cartoon Corner: Tangled the Series/Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure Review
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The Almost-First Warner Bros. Cartoon: “Buster Bear” (1931)
Since scans were done December 4th, 2016, I think it’s time to get poor Buster more officially out of the bag!
Pick of the Week: Jump to the Beat
SEAN: It’s Jump/Beat week, so we have an embarrassment of titles. I’ll pick the final Anonymous Noise, which is not quite as gripping now that it’s not showing…
Scorching Ping Pong Girls: Feel The Beat!
Sports anime and manga is something that I’ve been working hard to get into recently and I think that I’m succeeding so far. Still, I think of myself…
The Rise and Falling of Shojo Beat
Shojo Beat is an imprint from the company Viz Media that publishes works of manga geared towards young girls and women. It has been around for more than…
Shojo Beat License Wishlist
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Shojo Beat is COOKED
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Animating Chinese Ink-Wash Paintings
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Popcorn Pulse 71: Chinese Tango
As only one of them as had to register their pelvis as a dangerous weapon, at least one half of the Popcorn duo knows a thing or two…
Divination in Ancient Chinese Culture
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Books: History of Chinese Animation
By Jonathan Clements. Released as part of a Routledge series of translations of Chinese scholarship, Sun Lijun’s two-volume History of Chinese Animation is the largest work yet published…
Books: Chinese Animation and Socialism
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Top Ten Lists in the Waning Years of the Theatrical Cartoon
I've always wanted to write about the annual top ten lists that Motion Picture Herald used to have for short subjects - and now I have.
Cartoon Network & Adult Swim in the Age of Sinking Viewership
Over the past year, some stations gained viewership, but most have had their ratings decline. Among those? Cartoon Network & Adult Swim.
The Good Cartoon – Three Little Bops (1957 – Dir: Friz Freleng)
(Writer’s note: This is something I wrote in early 2023 as part of a possible “Best 30 Looney Tunes shorts” collaboration list between a bunch of a folks…
Cartoon Corner: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Review
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The Bad Guys (2022 – Dir: Pierre Perifel): A Cartoon Review
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Unsung Walter Lantz Cartoon: “Scrambled Eggs” (1939)
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Three More Mini-Reviews of Cartoon Films
Back in August, I posted an article that collected a trio of small reviews I’d written for some of the films I’ve seen during this year, with the…
Pick of the Week: Turn the Skip Beat Around
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The Endlessly Finicky Job of Revising “Cartoon Voices Of The Golden Age”
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