Cartoons from the first half of the 20th century are creepy for a lot of reasons. For one, many of the lead animators in the early days of film had dark senses of humor. Secondly, while cartoons came ...

NEW YORK — “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.” In nature, among the priestly ...