Category Archives: Cartoons

Dilbert Gets Fired

By tone | Published: February 7, 2009
Dilbert gets fired! “You know, some people are angry,” Adams said. “They think I’m making fun of the unemployed, but most people take it for what it is – just a cartoon and people are saying, ‘You know, it’s nice to have somebody kind of reflect our reality.” Dilbert is trying to make ends meet and paid [...]
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Life In Technicolor ii Coldplay

By tone | Published: February 6, 2009
Coldplay’s newest video is simple and original while hitting the right chord with universal childlike wry. It’s void of semi nude gyrating female bodies, it’s fresh to see videos like this. Not too many times when music videos are catching attention like this. The music video is for their new single ‘Life In Technicolor ii’, [...]
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Create Your Own Fonts

By tone | Published: February 2, 2009
The font is over looked many times by the ordinary reader. As a cartoonist searching for the right font for a comic strip is hard to find at times. You can toil day after day and take it old school and write it down. With the latest software, that is ancient history. Be it Photoshop, [...]
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Saturday Morning Cartoons

By tone | Published: January 26, 2009
Saturdays in the 60’s and 70’s ruled supreme for many kids in the three channel universe. Warner is mining from their vast pit of animation archives  from both Warner and Hanna Barbera to create a compilation of some of the best cartoons from both eras. The two volumes have great promise. This is a perfect [...]
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Peanuts: Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown

By tone | Published: January 26, 2009
Got Milk? Well it seems the Peanuts’ estate has plenty of it. The corpse of Schulz has the market cornered for every holiday on the calender and every birthday with either a Hallmark greeting card or new book on tired old gimmicks. The estate is milking the characters for all it’s worth. The latest is [...]
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Cartoon Marriage

By tone | Published: January 21, 2009
Love and marriage, love and marriage, Go together like a horse and carriage, This I tell you brother, You cant have one without the other. Cartoon Marriage Adventures in Love and Matrimony With Valentine just around the corner, love is beaming in the eyes of many a young girl who is propositioned each year that leads to marriage. This sacred [...]
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Tintin Celebrates 80 years

By tone | Published: January 10, 2009
The year 2009 promises to be a big year for both Marvel and the world of Tintin. Tintin is celebrating 80 years since he made his way and conquered many kids’ hearts throughout the world from January 10th 1939 and on. There is something missing. Did [...]
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Cartoons DK

By tone | Published: January 7, 2009
Cartoons DK is a Danish group from the 90’s who emulated groups like  Aqua and Vengaboys to the extreme. A fun video yet at times out there. What were they thinking? The band consists of: Toonie (Vocals), Shooter (Guitar), Buzz (Bass) og Sponge (Saxophone), Puddy and Boop (Backing Vocals)
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Spider-Man Music

By tone | Published: January 2, 2009
Grantray-Lawrence Animation is the Canadian animation by brought the world The Marvel Super Heroes and Spider-Man television shows. They also created the in-house show called Rocket Robin Hood. We don’t realize it but sound is a major key in animation. It brings the whole experience alive. The animation of these shows were not exactly the best of the crop back [...]
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Visit From Mars

By tone | Published: December 30, 2008
Is there life on Mars? Olle Berg thinks so with his webcomic called, Visit from Mars. Olle is a Swedish illustrator who has a knack for original art like you have never seen before. His European roots shine through and through in his art. There are not too many Swedish cartoonist who make a splash, if Olle keeps going [...]
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