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Skin Deep: Cartoon Characters Inspire Makeup Lines

There is a growing market of fully grown women who buy cosmetics collections that feature cartoon characters.

Media Decoder Blog: Fox Plans Block of Cartoon Shows for Late Night on Saturdays

The network that built franchises around "The Simpsons'' and "Family Guy'' will create new animated shows that will be distributed across multiple platforms.

Media Decoder Blog: ‘Annoying Orange’ Parlays YouTube Success Into a TV Series

A wildly popular Web series lands on the Cartoon Network, vindicating an unusual strategy: self-financing a pilot and then shopping the finished product.

Bil Keane, Creator of ‘The Family Circus,’ Dies at 89

Mr. Keane said the comics were “the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.”

Bil Keane, Creator of ‘The Family Circus,’ Dies at 89

Mr. Keane said the comics were “the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.”

Bil Keane, Creator of ‘The Family Circus,’ Dies at 89

Mr. Keane said the comics were “the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.”

Media Decoder Blog: A Provocative French Newspaper Is Attacked, and Support Is Swift

The weekly Charlie Hedbo has tested limits with its satire, including its latest issue, "guest-edited" by Muhammad.

Bill Gallo, Sports Cartoonist, Dies at 88

In the pages of The Daily News for more than 50 years, Mr. Gallo could be sharp and sentimental, and was a master of caricature.

Paul Conrad, Cartoonist, Dies at 86

Mr. Conrad’s editorial cartoons in The Los Angeles Times and other papers slashed presidents, skewered pomposity and exposed what he saw as injustice for six decades.

Disney Seeks to Make ‘Phineas and Ferb’ the Next ‘SpongeBob’

By some measures, “Phineas and Ferb” was the No. 1 television animated series among children 6 to 11 in 2009.

Warner Brothers Sues Lawyer ‘Superman’ Creators’ Lawyer

The company accused the lawyer for the comic book characters’ co-creators of trying to seize control of a large share of the property.

National Briefing | Media: Leapin’ Lizards, It’s the End for ‘Annie’

Tribune Media Services announced Thursday that it would cease syndication of “Annie,” the comic strip featuring the iconic redheaded orphan on June 13.