Familiar animated cartoon characters make us laugh and feel good, so when they try to sell us something, we're more inclined to listen. That advertising ploy dates as far back as at least World War II ...

A cartoon image appearing in the Italian La Gazzetta dello Sport publication before Sunday’s Italy-England match at Euro 2012 depicted Italian soccer star Mario Balotelli as King Kong. The cartoon ...

Brothers who helped put Italian animation on the map honored by the Bay By Eric J. Lyman, The Associated Press ROME — With an eggshell cocked sideways on his head, freshly hatched Calimero, the ...

Italian animators face an uphill battle to finance and produce their shows and the international industry still offers the best route to market. Jesse Whittock reports from Cartoons on the Bay. The ...

A cartoonist in Rome has sparked a heated controversy in Italy and abroad after depicting the European Union as the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as an escaping ...