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Hungover and a little sleep deprived, Vivian Kleiman was still trying to process the previous day's overload of pleasure. After nearly a decade in the works, her documentary "No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics" made its world premiere June 12 at the Tribeca Film Festival "on one of those giant Jumbotrons on a pier over the Hudson, next to a heliport, with tugboats and seagulls and drones buzzing by," she said. "Kind of perfect for a film about comic books." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If you're unfamiliar with the "Invincible" comic books, this animated adaptation may initially strike you as a jumble of styles and tones. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Keith Knight is from Massachusetts and now lives in North Carolina. But he is adamant that his 17 years in San Francisco, from 1990 to 2007, made him who he is today. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I'm not sure what goes through the minds of casting directors when they're trying to fill voice roles for cartoons, but it just seems logical to me that if you're casting a character who is African American, Asian American or Hispanic, you would want the actor to match the character we see on-screen. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Cartoons have always been queer - if you knew where to look, says animator Steven Clay Hunter. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I never thought I would need a content warning for racist cats - then I got a Disney Plus account. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The stars of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon "SpongeBob SquarePants" left Bikini Bottom for the Castro Theatre to continue celebrating two decades of serving those wishing for nautical nonsense. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, Mary Ladd needed a laugh. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Getting breast cancer serves up loss of dignity, follicles, and body parts, immense pain, dry eyes, cracked skin, and oh-so-many scars - yet laughing helps," says Mary Ladd in the introduction of her book, "The Wig Diaries." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

These are precarious times for editorial cartoonists. A Canadian publishing company just terminated its contract with a cartoonist who had portrayed a golfing President Trump standing over the bodies of two migrants and asking, "Do you mind if I play through?" This as the shrinking legion of cartoonists was up in arms over the New York Times' recent decision to stop running cartoons in its international edition. And last year Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers revealed that he was fired after 25 years for being too mean to Trump. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rob Paulsen may not be recognized on the street as easily as Ryan Reynolds or Hugh Jackman, but the comic-con veteran and pop culture icon can certainly turn heads with his voice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The independent student newspaper at UC Berkeley has removed an editorial cartoon from its website that critics including UC Berkeley's chancellor called anti-semitic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As a doctor, I am appalled to hear Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, say that nobody dies without access to medical care. Preventive health care is extremely important in picking up medical problems before they become untreatable. Without medical insurance, people of low income and some young people who think that insurance is unnecessary for them will only go to the doctor, often the emergency room, when they have pain or some other intolerable discomfort. At that point, their medical problem is advanced and their chances of being helped are markedly diminished. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Late-night comedians are not the only satirists having a field day with the early days of the Trump presidency. Editorial cartoonists across the globe have been applying their powers of observation and persuasion to this most unusual moment in American history. I asked our coterie of cartoonists to give their perspective on how they draw - and assess - the 45th president of the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jay Lynch, an artist, writer and satirist who was a central figure in the underground comics revolution of the 1960s and '70s, died March 5 at his home in Candor, N.Y. He was 72. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Andrew Farago still has his old Cartoon Art Museum phone number - three-digit extension included - even though the brick-and-mortar museum doesn't technically exist anymore. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

William Hamilton, the New Yorker cartoonist known for his wry depictions of the upper crust, has died. He was 76. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

William Hamilton, the New Yorker cartoonist known for his wry depictions of the upper crust, has died. He was 76. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With each stroke of the pen, Jeff Plotkin's subject became less human. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Director Steve Martino ("Ice Age: Continental Drift," "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who") knew from the moment he signed on to bring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and all the other beloved Peanuts characters to the screen in 3-D animation that "plenty of people who love the strip would think: 'Computer animation? Uh-oh.'" [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A caption accompanying the story about the Cartoon Art Museum misidentified the creator of the Campbell's Soup Kids featured in the soup company's advertisements. Artist Grace Drayton created the roly-poly characters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When we flip through a newspaper looking for the funnies, or click through the TV on a Saturday morning looking for cartoons, it's a good bet we're searching for mindless amusement. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Cartoon Art Museum could really use a superhero. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Cartoon Art Museum could really use a superhero. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I rarely agree with Debra Saunders, but I cheer her on “Religion of peace: believe it or else” (Jan. 8). Her final paragraph states the obvious intelligent answer to attacks on journalists: When a journalist or publication is physically attacked for a cartoon, statement or expose, the press everywhere should reprint the “offending” piece. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Here’s what I love about the French: They’ve long understood the dangers presented by radical Islam. President François Hollande swiftly called the deadly Wednesday shooting at Paris’ Charlie Hebdo newspaper “an act of exceptional barbarity,” without doubt a terrorist attack. There was no hedging. The Socialist leader didn’t engage in the sort of blather White House spokesman Josh Earnest offered on MSNBC shortly after the shootings. Earnest called the attack a “terrible act of violence,” but not necessarily terrorism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The barbarity of attacks on journalists around the world had been escalating even before Wednesday’s act of terrorism against a satirical publication in Paris. Still, the assault on the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people took the attempt to suppress free expression to a shocking new level. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Roz Chast is a cartoonist for the New Yorker, whose work has appeared in the magazine more than 1,200 times since 1978. Her New Yorker work tends to be a humorous look at what we worry about, even things to worry about that we may have never thought of and the generalized anxiety of being human on this planetary ball in space. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Scott Adams was growing up in the tiny Catskills ski resort town of Windham, N.Y., (population 2,000), he envisioned himself one day becoming a world-famous cartoonist like his idol Charles Schultz. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Scott Adams was growing up in the tiny Catskills ski resort town of Windham, N.Y., (population 2,000), he envisioned himself one day becoming a world-famous cartoonist like his idol Charles Schulz. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Countless Americans probably have seen the work of British cartoonist Ronald Searle without realizing it. People often confused it with that of prominent younger contemporaries Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe, who salute Searle's influence. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Some things are quintessentially Thanksgiving. Like turkey. And pumpkin pie. And the "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" animated television special. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Satire flourishes in direct proportion to the corruption of the political order. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

American society in the new century has so disfigured itself that only comics seem capable of speaking truthfully about it - stand-up comics, and comics of the sort that Daniel Clowes draws. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Visitors to Google's home page today are receiving a valentine from the company, in the form of the company's first animated narrative film. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In 2007, Tom Toro found himself unemployed and under a mountain of debt after completing an undergraduate degree at Yale and two years of film school at New York University. Morbidly depressed, he returned to his parents' house in El Cerrito. But sitting in his childhood bedroom, Toro, 29, considered that his unfortunate state of events could spell a fresh start. "Faced with this situation, I did what any rational person would do," he says. "I drew cartoons." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Beavis and Butt-head: Animated comedy. 10 p.m. today on MTV. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Billionaire CEO/investor/philanthropist/tax activist Warren Buffett can add another title to his moniker: cartoon character. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Even before he had kids, panel cartoonist Mike Twohy wanted to do a children's book. So every morning he'd draw a few animals, cut them out and put them in the lunch boxes of the two Twohy kids. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Like many writers, Peter Delacorte finds certain words hysterical. Like "tern," a slender seagull of Scandinavian origin. So funny, in fact, that he and his Princeton classmate created an imaginary quiz show in which extremely intelligent sea birds from all over the world are asked questions: "Ask the World's Terns." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Archer: Animated comedy. 10 p.m. Thurs. on FX. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is celebrating his $1 million-plus book deal on a 600-acre estate and enjoying his status as a lefty fringe hero, former cartoonist Molly Norris is in hiding. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bill Amend put his physics degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts to good use. His syndicated comic strip, FoxTrot, is filled with science and math references, including the occasional equation that can actually be solved. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The latest exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum tracks the origins of Curious George, and on two days this month, it's free for most guests. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Few would deny that Gorillaz are the greatest cartoon band of all time. The brainchild of Blur front man Damon Albarn and "Tank Girl" creator Jamie Hewlett has sold millions of albums, headlined Britain's huge Glastonbury music festival and scored a No. 2 chart debut earlier this year with its latest album, "Plastic Beach." Then again, there isn't much competition. In honor of the animated band's forthcoming set Saturday at Oracle Arena, we look at some the best-known pop acts that first took shape when ink hit paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jean Schulz is happy to talk about the Charles Schulz Museum, but first she needs to check on Woodstock's birdbath. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Whittling down more than two decades' worth of work spanning several art media to roughly 50 exhibition pieces hasn't been easy for cartoonist Nina Paley. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The prophet Muhammad in a bear costume. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mark Fiore, whose animated political cartoons appear on SFGate.com, the Web site of The Chronicle, won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]