Have you ever noticed that a bunch of cartoon characters wear gloves? Why is that? Vox investigates. [4:56]

includes political illustrations, gag cartoons, Online collection that includes comic strips, illustrations, animation, and caricature.

This site offers free step-by-step lessons on how to draw various types of cartoons including animals, characters, cars, Christmas, Disney, Manga, Superheros, landscape, and much more. General information about drawing cartoons is...

You can print out a variety of your favorite cartoon characters and begin practicing creating your own animations.

Create your own world of crazy cartoon creatures. Illustrator Gary Harbo provides simple step-by-step instructions for drawing some unique characters. Each month a new character-drawing activity goes live on his website.

The Library of Congress takes a look at the wacky world of cartoons, beginning with George Melies, who demonstrated that objects could be animated in film with a series of drawings, each drawn with slight changes.

Create a cartoon based on the Celts during the Iron Age. Choose a background and two characters. Then type dialogue for both characters and add a title. Finally, watch the cartoon come to life. Print to share with others.

Informative, fun, and humorous tutorial that uses cartoon characters to provide an introduction to information technology. The tutorial covers operating systems/desktops, email, the world wide web, and networks.

Students learn about solids, liquids, and gases in this interactive slide show. Animated cartoon characters explain concepts having to do with properties of matter. A self-checking quiz follows the lesson.

From the Physics 2000 site, this page exemplifies their usual superb discussion of the concepts of heat, temperature, and absolute zero. Using an entertaining series of cartoon characters, the page gives a very understandable discussion...

This primary age website requires no reading to construct the jigsaw dinosaur puzzle out of six pieces. The instructions are all spoken by the cartoon characters. Children can then watch a cartoon where one character goes back in time...

Behind some of your favorite Dr. Seuss characters are messages of social and political context. Explained here in detail are some examples of these types of works along with a biography.

These cartoons illustrate 5 online safety SMART rules and include a real life SMART Crew of young people, who guide the cartoon characters in their quest, and help them make safe online decisions. It includes nine links including the...

Two cartoon characters hide in paintings found throughout the Walker Gallery. See if you can find them in each one.

This site allows students to create their own comic strips. Students will pick the characters, write their own dialogue, and develop a plot. Students can click and hear music as they are creating their comic strips. This site is...

This site shows children step-by-step how to draw many different "Cartoony," characters created by Fred Lasswell.

Lots of history of American music with fun links and audio clips, most from the 20th century. A neat site to learn more about America's past.

This activity demonstrates how to create name badges in WordPerfect. Skills include set page to label format and inserting a page border. Cartoon characters are used for the data.

A highly entertaining Russian content site devoted to Winnie-the-Pooh. One of its best features is the Russian parallel translation of A.A. Milne's classic book by the famous Russian writer Boris Zakhoder. Also includes animation and...

Teaches basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. In this activity, learners use characters from Cartoon Network's "The Amazing World of Gumball" to create an animated story.

A short essay on the history of cartooning and animation in Japan. Discusses the importance of anime (also known as Japanimation) as an industry to Japan and its global reach. Nice samples of anime characters and styles frame the site.

Join the characters from the Arthur stories and PBS TV series as they celebrate different holidays. Five cartoons with brief accompanying text take children through Christmas.

Click through the pages and read this web version of the best selling novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. Read straight through each day, or click on any day in the calendar feature to go straight to that entry. The main...

Create your own world of crazy cartoon creatures. Illustrator Gary Harbo provides simple step-by-step instructions for drawing some unique characters. Each month a new character-drawing activity goes live on his website.