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 ...

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 ...

In the aftermath of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, with its skillful mixture of live action and animation, no one followed suit until Italian writer-directors Maurizio Nichetti and Guido Manuli with Volere ...

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian town is pursuing legal action against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for a cartoon showing victims of an earthquake there as types of pasta, and another suggesting ...