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Life Lessons from ‘Life in Hell’ and other Matt Groening Creations
Groening’s 35-year-old comic strip ‘Life in Hell’, whose characters saw life through doom-tinted lenses, ended this week after 35 years.
Reading While Eating for March 27: I Want Candy
Tuesday’s links start an all-chocolate diet, prepare our Easter baskets and make music out of Jell-O.
Calvin and Hobbes Art Sells for $107,550 at Auction
Bill Watterson may have given his Calvin and Hobbes book collections prestigious-sounding names like Indispensable and Authoritative as a joke, but in 2012 his cartoons are fetching fancy fine-art prices.
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The Berenstain Bears Now Speak an Endangered Language
If anyone can save a dying language, it’s Mama Bear, simply because we’re pretty sure she can do anything.
U.K. Lawmaker: Kids’ Television Portrays Women as ‘Pink and Princessy’
It’s an age-old problem: Positive female cartoon characters are rare, and even if they are presented as likeable heroines central to the plot, their bodies are unattainable (She-Ra) or spilling out of seashell cups (Ariel).
Al-Qaeda Plans Cartoon to Inspire Future Terrorists
As a masked mujahideen finishes off the victim fallen flat on the back with a rifle, his eye glares a sinister white. It’s not out of a bad horror movie, but from an upcoming jihadist propaganda—for kids.
Guess Who’s A Fan? Former President Bill Clinton is a ‘Brony’
Sure, you know Bill Clinton the former president of the United States, a Rhodes scholar and the husband to the Secretary of State, but did you know that he’s also a brony?
Introducing SpongeBob SquarePants — The Fungus
A newly discovered mushroom species has been named after the beloved cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants. It’s official title: spongiforma squarepantsii.
The Newest Internet Bro Craze: ‘My Little Pony’
From Smirnoff Ice to My Little Pony, modern bros are all over the place.
Facebook and Your Favorite Cartoon Will Stop Child Abuse
The latest Facebook meme claims to help fight child abuse. How noble!
Reading While Eating for October 28: Care Bears and Bad Crafts
Thursday’s links talk baseball, magic and cartoons.