Cartoons

It's been a while since we wrote about The Venture Brothers, our favorite psychoanalytical adventure satire cartoon, but the show's animatic editor, Thomas Bayne has organized an auction of Venture-related artwork, including storyboards, roughs and so on, with all proceeds benefitting Colbert Nation's Gulf of America Fund. Creator Jackson Publick writes:

Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro have been working on this teaser for THE RUINED CAST, a new Shaw animation project which includes the Shavian staple of a family in crisis near a body of water, and looks very mind trippy. The final product will be a full length animated feature to be directed by Shaw and produced by Howard Gertler and John Cameron Mitchell. Warning: NSFW if your W does not like male frontal.

Frank Miller, what do cartoonists eat, the iPad as salvation, and a look at Warner's plans for the Looney Tunes in today's news roundup.

Cartoon Brew showcases some just for fun test footage for a cartoon version of Bone by animator Andrew Kaiko. Amid Amidi takes the occasion to suggest that Bone would look better in 2D:

By now you all know that Sunday's Simpsons episode used Ke$ha's Tik Tok as their opening theme as the above video shows. But did you know the episode also contained an in-joke relating to the San Diego Comic-Con's potential move to Anaheim? It's true! ...Thanks to ZT for the tip.

Waitaminnit! That Slaterman23 is quite the busy bee -- he's also designed a Lost: The Animated Series poster. Click for larger image! Looking at...

Cartoon Brew, the respected animation blog, ran the promo art for the new Looney Tunes show we mentioned yesterday day, and the reaction can...

UPDATED with actual art! Deadline's Nellie Andreeva reports on Cartoon Network's upfronts and there is much for Our Kind, a Young Justice cartoon, and a...

Fresh from Richard Thompson's blog, news that there are four more animated shorts based on the amazingly-super comic strip Cul de Sac.

As we remind you every year, the key to winning the Oscar® pool is correctly selecting the winners in the Best Animated Short, ...

Meet our new wallpaper! The core Lost cast Simpsonized right down to the rubble. Found via Vulture, but the source is Springfield Punx, a...

AVATAR, to no one's surprise, snagged nine Oscar nominations this morning, tied with THE HURT LOCKER for most. The two films are the leading...