Each copy of the cartoon was hand pasted onto the page. ... Back in 1868, the Express was a Republican newspaper, fully supportive of the Reconstructionist government in power at the time.

It turns out that the cartoon hand of common knowledge is the product of multiple reasons, all of which begged for one less finger. First, your most immediate thoughts are correct.

A look back at how the Hanna-Barbera anthology series–talent incubator What a Cartoon! — which birthed ‘Power Puff Girls,’ ‘Johnny Bravo,’ ‘Dexter’s Laboratory,’ ‘Cow and ...

But it was also because all these hand-drawn creations clearly had to be the work of somebody. The Walt Disney name, in other words, was built on the one-to-one connection created by his cartoons.

Back in the early 20th century, animators had to draw every detail and every scene by hand. At first characters looked like boxes, but then they transformed into a “rubber hose and circle design ...