somewhere out there
July 21, 2022
Don Bluth’s Animated Feature Films, Ranked The Anastasia director trusts kids to process life’s dark moments.
summer preview
May 25, 2022
13 Animated Films and TV Shows We Can’t Wait to See This Summer The Belchers and Buzz Lightyear hit the big screen, while South Park continues its streaming-special blitz.
viewing guide
May 19, 2022
Cartoon Network Studios Has Some New Ideas for Getting New Ideas Amid a scorching market for animation, the revered studio wants to reassert its place as a destination for innovators.
viewing guide
Apr. 1, 2022
A Guide to the Anime Auteur Satoshi Kon The brilliant and bizarre works of the late filmmaker are streaming for free through April 10.
best of 2021
Dec. 21, 2021
The Best Animation of 2021 The medium had a year as rich and remarkable as any in recent memory.
New Rugrats Is Making New ‘Traditions’ A modernized revival of the animated series is determined to honor the franchise’s legacy — including its beloved holiday specials.
close reads
June 25, 2021
Infinity Train Outgrew Its Audience — and Grew Better for ItThe animated series’s cancellation over the lack of “a child entry point” underestimates what audiences of all ages are capable of enjoying.
10 Eye-Popping Deals on Animation DVD and Blu-ray Box Sets HD remasters and hours of special features make these Amazon Prime Day specials enticing.
now streaming
June 3, 2021
Watch These Anime to Fill the Bloody Castlevania -Shaped Hole in Your Heart Netflix’s action-packed gorefest has ended, but there’s a whole world of sanguinary anime out there to slake your bloodlust.
Craig McCracken Talks Taking on Serialized Superheroics in Kid Cosmic For his first streaming series, Netflix’s new Kid Cosmic, animator Craig McCracken didn’t want to just make “another campy parody of superheroes.”
vulture recommends
Jan. 25, 2021
Winter Time Is Hilda Time The Netflix series is the hygge of all-ages animation.
how everything works
Nov. 20, 2020
How to Make an Animaniacs Song That Truly Captures Life in 2020 More than 100 people and 240 hours went into the catchy opening segment of the revival.
hardest things
Oct. 9, 2020
The Hardest Thing I Ever Animated Sixteen animators and artists from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse , BoJack Horseman , Rick and Morty , Toy Story, and more recall their toughest gigs.
What a Cartoon! Allowed a Generation of Animators to ‘Take Back Our Cartoons’The anthology series and talent incubator What a Cartoon! tapped animation’s past to push the form into a new ’90s golden age.
10 Tragically, Irretrievably Lost Pieces of Animation History From Disney’s Martha to a Russian version of The Hobbit , some of the most intriguing cartoons have vanished into history’s great scrap heap.
Movies About Life Are Movies About Death. Ask the Director of Land Before Time. Don Bluth on depicting life’s tragedies alongside its moments of tenderness and joy.
vulture lists
Oct. 5, 2020
The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation History From Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, retracing 128 years of an art form that continues to draw us all in.
close reads
Sept. 3, 2019
Steven Universe: The Movie Is All About Doing the WorkLike the beloved series that precedes it, the movie is a beautiful, ambitious users’ manual for those learning to love themselves and others.
Kristen Arnett, Queer Meme Master, Does Not Want to Explain Ravioli to You The internet’s favorite librarian talks about her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things.
kids these days
Apr. 17, 2019
For the Country’s Best Teen Poets, Poetry Is Activism Honorees of the National Student Poets Program, threatened under Trump, fight for the personal and political power of verse.
on the books
Dec. 6, 2018
Did Michelle Obama Really Sell 2 Million Books in 15 Days? An Investigation. The former First Lady’s book is already this year’s biggest seller. But how do we know the exact numbers?