The desert island cartoon is one of those clichés we'd never thought to analyze too deeply until we read a smart cartoonist doing so, and now we're fascinated. New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff ...

Cartoon Network has greenlighted a series based on animated Sundance short Summer Camp Island and will produce it premiere next year. Based on the original short created by Julia Pott (Adventure Time) ...

The clip, which you can watch in the video above, shows the main characters, best friends Oscar and Hedgehog, arriving for their first day of summer camp. Everything about the camp seems pretty normal ...

British animator Julia Pott, the creator of Cartoon Network’s new children’s series “Summer Camp Island,” said it spoke “to people who are craving gentleness,” during a presentation of the show ...

Julia Pott, first mentioned on this site eight years ago, is getting her own Cartoon Network series, Summer Camp Island. The series is based on a pilot of the same name that Pott created for Cartoon ...

There are two types of people: camp kids and non-camp kids. Going to summer camp — spending time making lanyards, s’mores, and friends around a campfire, far away from mom and dad — is a profoundly ...

Cartoon Network has given a series order to “Summer Camp Island,” based on the short film of the same title that was featured this month at the Sundance Film Festival. The series tells the story of ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Who wants to be famous? The Total Drama Island campers do, that’s for sure! Summer may be wrapping up as these September days get cooler and cooler, but we’re still ready ...

I once did a search [on our database] and I think the year of the greatest popularity of desert-island cartoons in The New Yorker is 1957, when 17 appeared. Why a spike in 1957? I wonder if it was ...