Animations have been blamed for subversion, militarisation... and spiders.

On the face of it, Masha and the Bear appears to be a children’s cartoon series like any other. Masha is a little girl who loves exploring the forest and playing with her anthropomorphised animal ...

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Of the 80 projects that presented at last week’s Cartoon Forum in Toulouse, no pitch attracted greater (proportional) buyer curiosity than “Tiger and Bear.” Produced by Germany’s Wolkenlenker and ...

U.S. Cyber Command meme of a cartoon bear trick-or-treating and tripping over itself and spilling candy labeled with Russian malware. (U.S. Cyber Command) U.S. Cyber Command saw an opportunity to ...

The calls for Masha and the Bear to be banned in the UK might seem surprising, but they're the latest in a long line of ...