Cartoons Meet the Artist

When color cartoons came into existence, so did glove-wearing cartoon animals. But why? Discover how vaudeville shows had such an influence on glove-wearing cartoon characters and why animated birds still don't wear gloves.

Introduce your class to cartooning and the process of creating a comic. Liza Donnelly, cartoonist for The New Yorker, narrates the steps she takes to write and illustrate a cartoon. She also gets at the roles of a comic and how readers...