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An Archive of Animations/Cartoons of Ancient Greece & Rome: From the 1920s Through Today

An Archive of Animations/Cartoons of Ancient Greece & Rome: From the 1920s Through Today | Box of delight | Scoop.it

Ancient Greece and Rome have provided fertile hunting grounds for animated subject matter since the very inception of the form.

So what if the results wind up doing little more than frolic in the pastoral setting? Witness 1930’s Playful Pan, above, which can basically be summed up as Silly Symphony in a toga (with a cute bear cub who looks a lot like Mickey Mouse and some flame play that prefigures The Sorcerer’s Apprentice…)

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13 Websites That Converts Photo Into a Cartoon Character | blueblots.com

13 Websites That Converts Photo Into a Cartoon Character | blueblots.com | Box of delight | Scoop.it
Using a cute cartoonized character of yourself or an avatar, as they are popularly known, in any social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Gravatar, Twitter, Friendster, or Orkut is a fun and interesting way of making yourself stand out...
KB...Konnected's curator insight, January 31, 2014 9:23 AM

Many are great for avatars!

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Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon

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The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine's longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed "humor analyst" Bob Mankoff dissects the comedy within just some of the "idea drawings" featured in the magazine, explaining what works, what doesn't, and why.
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Hundreds of Free Cartoons to Use in Your Class ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Hundreds of Free Cartoons to Use in Your Class ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning | Box of delight | Scoop.it

Looking for some resources on cartoons to use in your classroom? The Library of Congress has this wonderful section packed full of more than " 500 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art. Most of the prints are from the division's PC/US series, which consists of individually cataloged political cartoons and caricatures."

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