The New York Times Sunday Review section invites professional editorial cartoonists to draw cartoons for free and submit them to the paper; one will be selected to run each week. The winning cartoonist will be paid $250. Everyone else gets nothing.

Normally, I wouldn't want to bring up something of this gravity during the holidays, but I have to take a firm stand on an issue that's been bothering me for a long while. I've sat by long enough and did nothing while wrongs were committed, on greater and greater scales. But no more. Today I make my stand. Here goes:

Media Matters points out that Andrew Breitbart's site "Big Journalism" has now used the same anti-Semitic cartoon (from a 1934 issue of the satirical German magazine Kladderadatsch) twice to illustrate "media bias." I'm just a libtard, so maybe there's some kind of irony I'm missing here?

Now that Herman Cain's sliding back into a comfortable third place in the polls and no one cares about him anymore, how should he spend all that money he raised while he was the frontrunner? "Converting the campaign into a PAC and paying yourself a million dollar salary for the next few years" would be our plan, and it's probably his for further down the road! For now, though, he'll make fancy cartoons like this one, about the 9-9-9 tax plan.

When R. Crumb was commissioned to draw a cover for a June 2009 issue of The New Yorker, he came up with this illustration of a gender-indeterminate couple tying the knot before a city clerk. A sign near them reads, "Gender Inspection," accompanied by a red arrow. The cover, which Crumb had never made public until now, was rejected by New Yorker editor David Remnick, and Crumb responded to the slight by publicly announcing that he'd never work for The New Yorker again.

Bil Keane, the creator of America's worst cartoon for sober people/best cartoon for high people "Family Circus," has died. Keane's anodyne, willfully unfunny and baffling cartoons led writer Daniel Radosh to ask, in reaction to the deaths of noted artists and celebrities, "Why Not Bil Keane?" God has finally listened to you, Daniel.

Gay, anti-Christian, global warming-peddling cartoon Spongebob Squarepants is under attack from old people again, and this time it's from scientists. In the newest edition of Pediatrics, researchers from the University of Virginia found that sticking the kids in front of Spongebob Squarepants so you don't have to actually hang out with them is, in fact, killing their attention spans.

In your era-ending Wednesday media column: Jim Romenesko is semi-retiring, cartooning for The New Yorker is hard, the NYO broadsheet is here, a weather lady is scared of earthquakes, and newspapers have grown.

Artist Todd White is famous for designing characters who live in a pineapple under the sea. But did he also design an elaborate kidnap and art theft caper in Huntington Beach? Gallerist Margaret Howell has filed a $7.5 million lawsuit accusing "agents of Mr. White" of imprisoning and assaulting her for several hours, stealing $1 million in artwork, forcing her into "reciting a rehearsed and scripted 'consent' into a voice recorder," and then defaming her to associates.

Thank you to the producers at CBS' The Early Show for distilling the raid on Osama bin Laden's Pakistani compound into a hilarious, cheap and brief cartoon with all the visual sizzle of a computer game circa 1992. Watch the elite Navy SEAL "Team Six," sporting what appears to be World War II infantry garb, just walk right in and massacre everyone for a while. Anyone could have done this!

Those masterminds at 30 Rock decided that they were going to make some internet cartoons to spice things up a bit, and naturally they enlisted their favorite news anchor toy Brian Williams to help out.

It's amazing be reminded of what was acceptable before being PC was so important.

If you're anything like me, you spent many afternoons after school enthralled by the adventures of Lion-O and his fellow ThunderCats. Banking on collective nerd nostalgia (guilty!) and the exploitable ignorance of kids more than half my age who have no clue this isn't an entirely new phenomenon, Cartoon Network is remaking the show.

Most know that The Far Side was one of the great comic strips of the 80s and 90s, while few realize that in 1994 a particularly edgy television special aired on CBS.

Pepper Ann was a staple in Disney's "One Saturday Morning" block from it's debut in 1997 to when it ended in 2001. It was a show that revolved around 12-year-old Pepper Ann's wild fantasies about her every day life as a student.

It seems bugs aren't just great source material for CG movies like A Bug's Life and Bee Movie, but they were also the subject of one of the earliest, most underrated animated feature films.

While Pixar is producing its own version of the Monsters Inc. sequel, this amazing video compiles the artwork and storyline from the authors' (Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir) original idea.

Animated short subjects being nominated for an Oscar is a happening far older than computer animated desk lamps and British claymation. Here are the first three cartoons that showed up on the ballot at the fifth Annual Academy Awards.

Think your future is so bright you need shades? Think again. College Humor's new Dr. Seuss parody warns you about your inevitable crushed dreams and destiny for mediocrity. Enjoy!

This the most important moment in the teenage life of Nickelodeon's Doug Funnie—yes, even better than meeting The Beets at the Honker Burger with Skeeter. His crush, Patti Mayonaise, has asked him out on a date.