Anticipation is building for Stranger Things animation Tales From ’85. At Annecy today, fans were treated to a sneak peek behind the scenes of the creation of the latest in the Hawkins-set Netflix ...

We all grew up watching cartoons and never really questioned why so many characters wore white gloves. We thought of them as a simple style choice, but their roots lie in the demands of early ...

Paul Burnford’s Frame by Frame, a documentary about animation techniques, and early animated shorts by Wladyslaw Starewicz, Winsor McKay, Stuart Blackton, Edwin S. Porter, and Emile Cohl. The Reader ...

Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its ...

Ever wondered why classic cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and Goofy always wear gloves? It’s such a common design choice in old-school animation that we barely question it. But there ...