Read more cartoon stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/5253/cartoon.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorMon, 23 Nov 2009 4:09:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74447/dont-land-on-planet-51.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt has a cool concept—a human is greeted with paranoia on an alien planet straight out of the '50s—but critics say Planet 51 never reaches orbit. Some reviews: It’s a “bland, humor-free narrative,” with lame references to other movies instead of jokes, writes Glenn Whipp of the LA...http://www.newser.com/story/74447/dont-land-on-planet-51.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 12:48:49 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73045/happy-35th-birthday-hello-kitty.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagShe can't blow out the candles, but Hello Kitty turns 35 today. Launched by the Japanese greeting card firm Sanrio in 1974, the mute, mysterious feline made her US debut in 1976 and is now an international style icon. "Who doesn't love Kitty?" fashion entrepreneur Kimora Lee Simmons asks. "Everyone...http://www.newser.com/story/73045/happy-35th-birthday-hello-kitty.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 01 Nov 2009 14:11:52 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69246/well-miss-you-hank.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThat an animated series from the creator of Beavis and Butthead would be one of the last champions of good-hearted American values is odd but true, Don Aucoin writes in the Boston Globe . As King of the Hill prepares to bow out tomorrow night, Aucoin offers a eulogy for “a...http://www.newser.com/story/69246/well-miss-you-hank.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 12 Sep 2009 15:05:51 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68843/yale-slammed-for-censoring-cartoons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCriticism is continuing to mount against Yale University, even from its own professors and alumni, for publishing The Cartoons That Shook the World —while censoring the cartoons that shook the world, reports AP. Yale University Press yanked the Danish caricatures from a book about the protests they spawned out of...http://www.newser.com/story/68843/yale-slammed-for-censoring-cartoons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 08 Sep 2009 7:55:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68097/yale-sides-with-dictators-by-censoring-cartoons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagYale University has “handed a victory to extremists” by deciding to pull images of the prophet Muhammad from its upcoming book on the Danish cartoon controversy, writes Mona Eltahawy in the Washington Post . Eltahawy is a Muslim living in Denmark, and she knows full well that the cartoons offended some...http://www.newser.com/story/68097/yale-sides-with-dictators-by-censoring-cartoons.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 29 Aug 2009 10:57:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67393/3d-remake-of-yellow-submarine-to-surface.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDisney is planning a 3D remake of Yellow Submarine , the 1968 psychedelic cartoon buoyed by a Beatles soundtrack, the Independent reports. Robert Zemeckis of Back to the Future fame will direct. Aside from the music, the Beatles were only tangentially related to the original film—actors provided the voices to...http://www.newser.com/story/67393/3d-remake-of-yellow-submarine-to-surface.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 20 Aug 2009 17:10:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64148/spongebob-at-10-still-fun-popular-and-inscrutable.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSpongeBob SquarePants is 10 years old, and the “happy nonsense” of the show is “as popular as ever,” Alessandra Stanley writes in the New York Times . What’s more, the wacky, uncynical cartoon has managed to do it “without having disclosed any higher meaning to Bikini Bottom.” Sure, “adults have been...http://www.newser.com/story/64148/spongebob-at-10-still-fun-popular-and-inscrutable.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 11 Jul 2009 15:18:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59789/new-series-by-beavis-creator-lampoons-green-buttheads.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGoodbye Hank Hill, hello Gerald Goode. Beavis and Butthead creator Mike Judge's new animated series lampoons a vegan, hybrid-driving Midwestern family whose motto is: "What would Al Gore do?" The Goode Family sends up the greener-than-thou clan’s efforts to maintain an environmentally friendly, strictly PC lifestyle just for the sake...http://www.newser.com/story/59789/new-series-by-beavis-creator-lampoons-green-buttheads.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 22 May 2009 3:23:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58019/porn-comes-to-india-as-a-cartoon.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn online cartoon detailing the sexscapades of a subcontinental MILF is driving India wild, the GlobalPost reports. Millions are drawn to the exploits of Savita Bhabhi, or “sister-in-law Savita,” even though pornography is illegal in India—or maybe because it is, analysts say. "People fantasize about a sari clad bhabhi...http://www.newser.com/story/58019/porn-comes-to-india-as-a-cartoon.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 04 May 2009 16:59:35 CDT