John Kricfalusi is awesome. He is just so damn passionate about cartoons. His rants, combined with large collections of visual examples, always leave me thinking, "He is SO right!"

There is more animation being done today than ever in history, yet where are the cartoons? I could understand maybe 5 or 10 percent of entertainment-oriented animation being not cartoons, but I can't for the life of me figure out why there are practically no cartoons at all anymore. No one wants to do what cartoons actually are and what they do better than any other medium. At least no one in charge. The cartoonists certainly want to make cartoons and the audience would love to watch them if they existed.

I figure it's my duty to remind everyone of what cartoons are and to come up with some defining characteristics.

• what is a cartoon?

previously on wtg:

• the magic of an animated mouse
  

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