Why subscribe?

Welcome to The Dot and Line, a web publication dedicated to changing the way cartoons and the animation industry are covered in the media. We’re an outlet for fans and by fans, with the mission of covering the animated arts with journalism as serious, attentive, and engrossing as the best writing on works in other creative forms. If you love cartoons, this is the newsletter for you.

What’s your deal?

We’ve published interviews, essays, humor, reviews, retrospectives, analyses, podcasts, and more from a variety of diverse voices and perspectives. Our writers and editors draw on decades of studied expertise (i.e., watching a ton of cartoons) and score exclusive interviews with animators, voice actors, directors, producers, writers, historians, and more to create compelling, crucial journalism about the medium we love the most. 

Who are you people?

John Maher and Eric Vilas-Boas: cofounders, editors in chief

Sammy Nickalls: editor, website

Elly Belle: editor, newsletters

Marley Crusch: director, special projects