Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Animation has been back in the news recently due to the king of all characters — Mickey Mouse (his Steamboat Willie incarnation, ...

An entire generation spent their Saturday mornings watching cartoons in the 1980s, but many of their titles are long forgotten.

In 1980, everything changed for animation in America. President Jimmy Carter signed the FTC Improvements Act of 1980, limiting the Federal Trade Commission’s ability to regulate children’s programming ...

The 1980s were a significant time for both cartoons and science fiction tales, with the decade producing some truly incredible animated sci-fi series that hold up today. Though the sci-fi genre has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was a very specific moment in the 1980s when television executives looked at children and thought: “What if we simply gave ...

Brad LaCour is a Senior List Writer for Collider. Based out of Los Angeles, California, Brad lives close enough to the stars but is too busy to find out where exactly they live. Brad is fairly certain ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

We love horror here at Nerdist, but we were kids once too. Not every kid watches A Nightmare on Elm Street at eight years old. Some of us watched regular old cartoons. But, those of us who grew up in ...

The worlds of He-Man, G.I. Joe, Transformers, ThunderCats, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t end after the credits—they live on through vintage toys, comics, and trading cards. Before there were ...

Not stories with endings. Not subtle character arcs. Just laser guns, synth music, animal hybrids, toyetic vehicles, and an intro theme that went harder than it had any right to. Some of these ...