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The cartoon, Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, won 2 Emmy awards in 2006 and 2007.

Saturday morning cartoons vanished in the 2000’s largely due to the “Children’s TV Act” requiring stations to have 3 hours of educational/informational (E/I) programming per week. To avoid the station’s affiliates scheduling the E/I during their weekday shows, Saturday morning’s took the hit.

When John Kricfaluci was asked if his cartoons Ren and Stimpy were gay, he replied “I don’t know if they’re gay or not, that’s their own business.”

The Brave Little Toaster very nearly took home the top award at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival, the judges were afraid that the festival would lose respect for picking a cartoon.

The airplane nose dive sound in cartoons is inspired in the Ju-87 Stuka, which had a siren attached to its fuselage to frighten soldiers when bombing.

Al Sharpton demanded an apology from Cartoon Network for depicting Martin Luther King Jr using the term “N***a” in The Boondocks. Cartoon Network responded by making fun of Al Sharpton in a radio broadcast in a later episode.

Superman was originally incapable of flying in the 1940s; hence the phrase “Able to LEAP tall buildings in a single bound.” The animators of Superman’s first cartoon thought it looked silly, so they requested, and were granted, permission to give him the ability of flight.

The largest collection of cartoon art in the world is housed at The Ohio State University. The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library holds a Calvin and Hobbes collection of more than 3,000 originals.

Due to lash back from a Far Side cartoon where a female chimp finds a human hair on the male she is grooming and says, “Conducting a little ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”, Gary Larson now donates all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon to The Jane Goodall Institute.

The last episode of the 80s kids’ cartoon “David the Gnome” involves the main character and his wife going into the mountains for a death ritual. They die and turn into trees

Politician Boss Tweed was brought down by Thomas Nast’s cartoons, which painted him as the embodiment of corruption. Tweed said to aides, “Let’s stop them damned pictures. I don’t care so much what the papers write about, my constituents can’t read but damn it, they can see pictures.”

Cartoon characters are depicted as wearing gloves as it eliminated the complexity of drawing a well-defined hand back in the days when they had to manually draw a new drawing per frame for numerous frames.

From 1904 to 1925, a cartoon called “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” ran in a New York paper. It featured bizarre nightmares, and among other things pioneered the idea of giant characters destroying a city. It has been called “perhaps the most bizarre newspaper feature in American history”.

The old propaganda cartoons telling kids to “duck and cover” under their desk in case of a nuclear bomb were actually giving really useful advice.

The “Betty Boop” cartoon character was the subject of a lawsuit by the popular singer Helen Kane, who claimed her singing style had been ripped off. In court, however, it was proven that Kane had herself stolen the style from the African American singer Baby Esther.

There was an episode of the 1980s’ Transformers’ cartoon where Megatron and the Decepticons got hammered by overindulging on energon.

During the ending theme to Cartoon Network’s The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, some strange, creepy gibberish is heard at the end. The gibberish played backward is Maxwell Atoms, the creator of the show, saying “No, no. This is the end of the show. You’re watching it backward!”

The Addams Family was originally a group of macabre cartoon characters whose exploits were published in The New Yorker.

. When the UK stopped airing TV due to WWII, the last thing that aired was a Mickey Mouse Cartoon. After the war, the first show that played was the same Mickey Mouse cartoon.

Salvador Dalí made a cartoon for Disney. – Source

“Pig-Pen” from the Peanuts cartoon was a parody of “Piggy” from Lord of the Flies. In his premiere, he said, “I haven’t got a name…people call me things…real insulting things.”

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t get color-specific masks until their first cartoon aired in 1988.

The cartoon “Ed, Edd n Eddy” was created on a dare.

Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons claimed that he liked Beavis and Butt-head (1993) because it took “the heat off Bart Simpson being responsible for the downfall of western civilization.”

Chuck Jones created Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner as a parody of chase cartoons like “Tom and Jerry”, not expecting that its purposefully ridiculous contraptions and nonsensical cartoon physics would make it popular.