There was a very specific moment in the 1980s when television executives looked at children and thought:“What if we simply ...
I'm a '90s kid, but that being said, some great cartoons definitely spilled over into my childhood from the '80s...and these shows are MONEY. There's no denying the popularity of Care Bears. The show, ...
There were countless TV cartoons in the '80s, and Saturday mornings were filled with adaptations of popular toy lines, comic books, and movies, even if some of the properties weren't exactly ...
The 1980s were a golden age for cartoons, which often featured some creatively creepy villains that linger in memory even all these decades later. The most famous and iconic cartoons of the 1980s ...
Emma Oakman is a British writer based in Canada who studied film at university. Emma has a proclivity for goop, gore, and all things that go bump in the night. There are so many iconic cartoons from ...
Saturday morning cartoons were the only reason to wake up early in the ’80s. Growing up, we did not have a television so I would be at my best friend’s door (much to the disappointment of his dad) ...
In 1980, everything changed for animation in America. President Jimmy Carter signed the FTC Improvements Act of 1980, limiting the Federal Trade Commission’s ability to regulate children’s programming ...
The lesson of MythForce, if Beamdog’s zany roguelite has one, is that parody is easy; homage is hard. It’s simple enough to snicker at the 12-frames-per-second animation of the 1980s, and the cynical ...
Even among the select group of 40-something nerds who cherish even the awful content of our youths, there are not many who remember the short-lived cartoon Turbo Teen. This is a good thing. Its ...