Cartoon

Disenchantment is an odd show. Not odd as in weird -- though there are demons, fish ladies and a place called TwinkleTown -- but more in the sense that it sticks out. While its animated comedy peers (Bojack Horseman, Rick and Morty, Big…

Animation has been around for decades. It has fuelled our imaginations and allowed us to journey into new and exciting worlds, escaping from our reality. What many people don’t realise, however, is the amount of work that goes into the…

With Godzilla: King of Monster's recent release, we’re looking at a lesser known addition to the kaiju lore of this franchise. Now, Godzilla and Co. have been destroying buildings across Japan for years and as popular as they are, the US…

Released in 2014, The Lego Movie was surprisingly awesome. This 90-minute advertisement for plastic bricks defied expectations to achieve widespread critical and commercial success thanks to warm-hearted humour and an imaginative script.…

In the sticky heat of a 2007 Summer's day, two friends and I felt the wind at our backs as we set sail from Dun Laoghaire to Dalkey on my friend's boat (cheerfully named 'The Modeste'). We balked as he swigged from a seemingly out of date…

On this week's episode of The Suss, Steph and Glenn are joined in studio with Harry Burton political cartoonist with Phoenix Magazine, The Dublin Inquirer, and Private Eye for a chat about the role of satire in the modern news cycle. Ups…

Ernest Kavanagh was someone who contributed artistically to the era of revolution in Ireland  but in our history he has unfortunately been lost among names such as Pearse and Connolly. Born in Dublin city in 1884, young Ernest received…

News Sad news in visual, and indeed in general this week with the terrible events in Paris where four of the leading cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo were killed in a terrorist attack on their offices. Fellow cartoonists from around the world…

December 17th will mark 25 years since the inception of The Simpsons, the world's most famous family? The Simpsons, or rather, a crudely drawn creation, first saw light of day way back in the Spring of 1987 as a set of short animations for…