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We've dug up 10 classic Christmas cartoons that are blasts from the past. Some you may recognize, others might be "hidden gems" for you to discover. So slip into those Christmas pajamas and climb on ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Meet the Lehigh Valley’s first babies of 2026: 1 born 11 minutes past midnight, another at 1:11 ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...

As cartoons become harder to find on bigger streaming platforms, free services such as Tubi and Pluto are stepping up to save beloved classics. After disappearing from HBO Max, the original Looney ...

Fresh off a best feature win at Animation Is Film, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain distributor GKIDS has given us exclusive access to its English-language trailer, offering a tease of one of ...

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Warner Bros. Discovery recently fixed a silly mistake and put the “HBO” back in Max. Unfortunately a return to the site’s old name hasn’t stopped it’s owner from pulling the same old crap. Last year ...

Next week, Comic-Con returns to San Diego, where, back in August 1970, it began life as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in the basement of the U.S. GrantHotel. That first event drew about a ...

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The '90s were a golden age for Saturday morning cartoons—an era when anything could be animated, no matter how weird, wild, or completely unhinged. From mutant biker mice and time-traveling teens to ...