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Netflix signed deals with two Time Warner units to license a range of cartoons and other programming for its online video-streaming service.

On May 28 in Boston, Thompson will learn whether he has won the National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for cartoonist of the year. It is his second straight nomination for a strip that was syndicated almost four years ago. “Cul de Sac” is carried by nearly 150 newspapers, including The Washington Post, where it began. It has spawned four books, a handful of animated shorts — and legions of fans.

Pioneering TV cartoon artist Alexander Anderson Jr., who created Rocky the flying squirrel and Bullwinkle the moose, has died. He was 90.

In an article at The Hollywood Reporter talking about how UTA is taking on Voltron and its U.S. rights-holder World Events Prods. as clients, the trade gives an update on the movie.

Studio finalizing deal for bigscreen adaptation -- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe have found a new home at Sony.

Josh Wolk on a TV classic; share top moments here, see a special goodbye in this week's EW magazine.

After years of lounging in development, a live-action feature based on the classic 80's cartoon series "Voltron" is in the works at Atlas Entertainment says The Risky Biz Blog.

The series featured a band of five robot-lions who combined to form one super lion. A group of five pilots control the lions, which are charged with defending the planet Arus from villain King Zarkon, who dispatches evil creatures called Robobeats to fight the Voltron robots.

An e-mail featuring a picture of two cartoon eyeballs set against a black background and meant to depict President Obama landed a Republican Tennessee state Senate aide in hot water, but not on the unemployment line.

Babies usually start paying attention to movement soon after birth, and pick up information from the cues they see but children with autism often do not.

If you were wondering what the status or possibility was of a 4th Mad Max movie, then I have to tell you something: you are the only one wondering. Well, you and George Miller, who still wants to bring a 4th Mad Max tale to the big screen, but in a format that's quite a bit different than the previous Max movies: