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This is Amy. Her favorite TV cartoon was Scooby Doo. The original series, “Scooby-Doo, Where are you!?”, was created by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969 as a Saturday morning cartoon. Scooby-Doo is about a gang of mystery crime-solvers and their dog … Continue reading →

This is Amanda. Amanda’s favorite cartoon growing up was Arthur, a Canadian/American series created by Cookie Jar Group and WGBH productions for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). It’s original air was in the early 90s. Arthur is an Aardvark with … Continue reading →

This is Kevin, he loves Dino, from the Flinstones. The Flinstones is mentioned in earlier posts, as one of very early cartoons by Hanna-Barbera Productions in the Saturday morning cartoons era. Dino is the pet dinosaur of the working-class stone-age … Continue reading →

Our class recently took a field trip to the Turner Networks headquarters in Hong Kong, and learned about the way they run, screen, and design for their channels. One of the main channels that Turner owns is Cartoon Network, and … Continue reading →

  This is Carolina. Her favorite cartoons are the Moomins, the main characters in a comic and book series by a Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson. He originally published these comics in Swedish, from Finland. The Moomins are a … Continue reading →

    This is Eric, who liked the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a team of 4 anthromorphic turtles trained by a sensei rat in the ninjutse art of combat, and live in an underground sewer in New York City. They battle evil alien invadors … Continue reading →

One of my friends helped me ask a security guard of an office building in quarry bay about his favorite cartoons! He immediately said Gundam, an anime metaseries by Sunrise Studios about giant transforming robots called “Mecha”. The first TV … Continue reading →

The post above this one has an interesting story. I had wanted to ask a particular security guard in the lobby of an office building to recall his favorite cartoon. When I asked him, the first thing I noticed was … Continue reading →

So during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II, Japan began exploring with the animation influences of the West. During this time however, animation developments were quickly picked up by the Japanese government and used as propaganda to get people to join … Continue reading →