Kelcie Mattson is a Senior Features author at Collider. Based in the Midwest, she also contributes Lists, reviews, and television recaps. A lifelong fan of niche sci-fi, epic fantasy, Final Girl ...

Episode one of the Netflix live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series, “Aang,” is one of the more straightforward episodes of the series as far as cartoon references are concerned. This episode ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

In fairness to the NBC drama, The Blacklist was among the first series to pivot to animation (with limited time, no less) as the coronavirus pandemic made in-person production infeasible.

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Back in 2011, when kids’ Youtube was a less crowded place, a young Dutch animation graduate decided to take a chance on the platform. Uninspired by Youtube’s existing preschool shows, which he found ...

We love horror here at Nerdist, but we were kids once too. Not every kid watches A Nightmare on Elm Street at eight years old. Some of us watched regular old cartoons. But, those of us who grew up in ...

As fans dive into Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, they might start to feel the itch to revisit the cartoon. Of course, with eight live-action episodes and 61 total cartoon episodes, moments from ...