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 ...

Controversial French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has provoked fresh outrage with its response to last week’s devastating earthquake in central Italy. The latest edition of the edgy French ...

As the eightieth anniversary of its October 2, 1928 founding approaches, Opus Dei is producing an Italian TV cartoon and mini-series on the life of its founder St. Josemaria Escriva. The cartoon is in ...

ROME (AP) — The Italian town hardest hit by last month's earthquake has filed a criminal defamation complaint denouncing French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for a cartoon depicting victims in layers ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROME, Feb 14: Italy’s Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli has had T-shirts made emblazoned with the anti-Islam cartoons in a move that could embarrass Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government. Mr ...

A SLOVAK animated cartoon, Kamene (Stones) by director Katarína Kerekesová, was the winner at the Fano International Film Festival in Italy, which has focused on short and medium-length audiovisual ...

An Italian minister who wore a t-shirt featuring cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed has quit after he was blamed for deadly riots outside an Italian consulate in Libya. A powerful charity led by a son ...