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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Total Drama Island” is a 2007 animated series which aired on Cartoon Network. The show centers around 22 teenagers brought to an island summer camp to compete in team-based challenges in hopes of ...

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 ...