Cartoons and Animation

Skeletonwitch @ Nile Theater

Odd Future Release New Video, to Play Marquee Theatre Friday (Probably NSFW)

See also: Odd Future's Most NSFW Videos See also: Odd Future Live at the Marquee Last year the hype machine was in full effect for the Los Angeles hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, or just Odd Future for short. It seemed as if just about everywhere you went on the Internet -- ... More >>

Street Artists Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf, and Robbie Conal to Appear on "The Simpsons"

​To the glee of graff fans and pop-culture fiends, creators of The Simpsons announced this morning that an upcoming episode will guest star the kings of street art: Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf and Robbie Conal.  This March 4, all four will be appearing in an episode title ... More >>

Switch @ Crescent Ballroom

​To the glee of graff fans and pop-culture fiends, creators of The Simpsons announced this morning that an upcoming episode will guest star the kings of street art: Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Kenny Scharf and Robbie Conal.  This March 4, all four will be appearing in an episode title ... More >>

Beastie Boys' Off-Broadway, and Four Other Weird Rock Musicals

Ad-Rock​It used to be that plays like Hair epitomized the marriage between rock and musical, but recent years have seen the combination pushed to new limits. You probably know Green Day's American Idiot and U2's constantly flailing Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark, but have you heard of Serj Tank ... More >>

South Park's Cartman as Joe Arpaio?

www.southparkstudios.comLook familiar?​If you didn't catch last night's South Park, you missed out. Not only did it touch on Arizona's issue du-jour, illegal immigration, and introduce the world to the term "Mexi-Jew," but it also featured the show's portly, pissed off star, Cartman, portraying a ... More >>

Drawn Together

www.southparkstudios.comLook familiar?​If you didn't catch last night's South Park, you missed out. Not only did it touch on Arizona's issue du-jour, illegal immigration, and introduce the world to the term "Mexi-Jew," but it also featured the show's portly, pissed off star, Cartman, portraying a ... More >>

Tim Minchin Talks Gingers, Religion, Ben Folds, Sperm Banks, Flight of the Concords, and More

Tim Minchin is a rather humble lad. Despite having millions of fans in his homeland of the UK, Australia, and here in the states (not to mention awards up the ying-yang) the 35-year-old piano-playing comedian and musician remains pretty modest about his success."I'm lucky to be doing what I'm doing, ... More >>

Scope Opera

Tim Minchin is a rather humble lad. Despite having millions of fans in his homeland of the UK, Australia, and here in the states (not to mention awards up the ying-yang) the 35-year-old piano-playing comedian and musician remains pretty modest about his success."I'm lucky to be doing what I'm doing, ... More >>

Seven Favorite Fictional Chefs

​Yeah, yeah, we know -- these days you can get more than your fill of real-life chefs, doing real-life chef things, all over the airwaves, in books and online. But the real thing isn't nearly as fun as the made-up chefs on this list. Don't believe us? Read on. Here's our list of the Top Seve ... More >>

Vulgar Video

​Yeah, yeah, we know -- these days you can get more than your fill of real-life chefs, doing real-life chef things, all over the airwaves, in books and online. But the real thing isn't nearly as fun as the made-up chefs on this list. Don't believe us? Read on. Here's our list of the Top Seve ... More >>

Animated Expression

TCA spotlights late, great cartoonist

Animated Expression

TCA spotlights late, great cartoonist

On a Dissolving Faith in God and Worshipping Looney Tunes Characters

TCA spotlights late, great cartoonist

Television Noir Invades Adult Swim...Sorta

Michael RatcliffTelevision Noir's Stephen Strange (left) and Mike Red.​You can catch the Dr. Rev. Stephen Strange and his cohorts doing their bizarre sideshow exploits at any number of locales throughout the PHX: During First Friday on Fifth Street in front of MADE, at the upcoming Fiesta Bowl blo ... More >>

Joe R. Lansdale

Michael RatcliffTelevision Noir's Stephen Strange (left) and Mike Red.​You can catch the Dr. Rev. Stephen Strange and his cohorts doing their bizarre sideshow exploits at any number of locales throughout the PHX: During First Friday on Fifth Street in front of MADE, at the upcoming Fiesta Bowl blo ... More >>

Bad Hare Day

Politically incorrect ’toons lampoon Jews, gays, blacks, and evil Arabs

Classic Animation Gets the Big Screen Treatment in Chandler

The original pinupImagine a rap war, ala Biggie and Tupac. But it takes place in the 1930s. And instead of being rappers, the two men involved are kiddie film animators. And instead of shooting at each other, they just say mean things about each other behind the other's back.A little less sexy than ... More >>

MC Chris

The original pinupImagine a rap war, ala Biggie and Tupac. But it takes place in the 1930s. And instead of being rappers, the two men involved are kiddie film animators. And instead of shooting at each other, they just say mean things about each other behind the other's back.A little less sexy than ... More >>

Dethklok Invades Marquee Theater

The original pinupImagine a rap war, ala Biggie and Tupac. But it takes place in the 1930s. And instead of being rappers, the two men involved are kiddie film animators. And instead of shooting at each other, they just say mean things about each other behind the other's back.A little less sexy than ... More >>

Plymptoons at ASU

The original pinupImagine a rap war, ala Biggie and Tupac. But it takes place in the 1930s. And instead of being rappers, the two men involved are kiddie film animators. And instead of shooting at each other, they just say mean things about each other behind the other's back.A little less sexy than ... More >>

Pushing 'Toon

Local boy gets an A-plus for F Minus

Touch of Evel

Local boy gets an A-plus for F Minus

It Doesn't Suck!

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans. The movie is eeeexellent.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Review Critique for Newspapers

87 minutes of pure art, with fries

A Bug's Strife

Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

MC Chris

Nerdcore galore

Dangerdoom

The Mouse and the Mask
(Epitaph)

Say Cheese

A long-overdue feature debut

In 'Toon

Here, the shorts are the feature

NET Gains

Animation displayed at SMoCA

Puffy AmiYumi

Tasty duo says "Hi Hi"

Hip to Be SquarePants

There's nothing absurd about the appeal of SpongeBob's first movie

BEST PIÑATAS

Sanchez & Sons Printing

Smokin' Sandwiches

Stephen Lemons hits a new joint

That's All, Folks?

Warner Bros. delivers a merchandising vehicle that falls flat

Distilled Gin

The Gin Blossoms re-form again, and this time it might be for more than one gig

Auld Laugh Syne

Ring in the New Year with standup comedy

Llama's Boy

The Emperor's New Groove is a new groove for Disney, too

Bless the Blockhead

How A Charlie Brown Christmas almost wasn't, then became a tradition

Suspended Animation

When Pearse Cullinane left Dublin to work for Fox Animation Studios in Phoenix, he hadn't counted on losing his rights in a right-to-work state. These days the only line he's drawing is in the sand.

Beatles for Cels

With the resurfacing of Yellow Submarine, can the rerelease of the original Beatles cartoons be far behind?

Mr. Nuts and Bolts

With the resurfacing of Yellow Submarine, can the rerelease of the original Beatles cartoons be far behind?

Toons of Glory

Don't cel Spike & Mike's Classic animation festival short

Feat of Clay

Wallace and Gromit filmmakers tackle Gumby Noir

Calendar for the week

Wallace and Gromit filmmakers tackle Gumby Noir

Dinovideo!

When schlockmeisters rule the Earth, dinosaurs will be movie stars

Double Dribble

Space Jam hits the rim but doesn't score often

ALLEY OF THE DOLLS

Space Jam hits the rim but doesn't score often