While animation is often seen as a child's medium, making cartoons with adult references dates back to pre-Looney Tunes.

Vulgar adult cartoons aren’t exactly a novelty these days. Between Bojack Horseman and Big Mouth, cartoons—even those centered around kid characters—often cater to adult audiences through crude humor ...

R-rated movies and cartoons sound like an odd match, but in fact many standout animated shows have been based on beloved adult-oriented films and franchises.

The universe is healing as other distributors pick up animated features abandoned by the inept management of Warner Bros. Discovery. A couple weeks ago, Coyote vs. Acme was rescued by Ketchup ...

If you’ve ever wondered why Western animation hasn’t done an action-anime series set in a fictional world of obsessed wrestling fans, then wonder no more because writer/director/creator Juston ...

Perhaps it's not fair coming from a (nearly) 40-year-old man, but the opening sequences of modern cartoons just don't have the same zing it used to in the '80s and '90s. I guess the commerce-driven ...

Betty Boop was “born” in 1930 on Myron “Grim” Natwick’s drawing table at the Fleischer brothers’ Manhattan animation studio. As the journalist Peter Benjaminson details in “The Life and Times of Betty ...