That's All, Folks!
As the Dot and Line comes to a close, we'd love for you to read our final stories, which we published this week. PLUS! Watch this video. Thanks for tooning in with us.
It’s over, isn’t it? Today is the day we wrap up our four-year-old labor of love. It’s been our pleasure writing about cartoons for you. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, and now it’s time to send The Dot and Line to that big, beautiful, Studio Ghibli–animated grassy knoll in the sky. We’ll miss it, and we’ll miss you.
A couple notes, before we go. Firstly, our GoFundMe supporting our writers is still running. Please give anything you can to help them out through the COVID-19 pandemic. Between now and May 4, John and Eric will match donations up to a total of $300! That means your dollars could go twice as far. All the money will go to contributors who need it.
Secondly, don’t be a stranger! We have a whole post dedicated to ways you can keep up with the D+L’s editors in the future. This is the end of our site, but certainly not the end of our collective dedication to writing, editing, and cartoons.
Finally, it’s time to say goodbye. We’ve done so in the many thousands of words we’ve written this week, which you can check out below, and with this video, produced by Elly Belle. Watch some of our contributors, supporters, and friends say “That’s All, Folks!” to this little cartoon journalism website that could. And thank you.
And now, our last words…
That’s All, Folks! — A Series of Stories to Say Goodbye
Your favorite scrappy cartoon journalism website has reached its finale. This post runs down all the pieces we’ve published this week, with editors John Maher, Eric Vilas-Boas, Elly Belle, Sammy Nickalls, and Marley Crusch saying so long and see ya later from the bottom of our hearts.
The Dot and Line, Which Took on Tales of Toons, Dies at 4
Our obituary for a website that grew over the course of four years from scrappy, puckish up-and-comer to perhaps the best cartoon journalism publication on the internet. (Fight us!)
The Poem We’d Like You to Remember Us By
Editor Eric Vilas-Boas pens his final words on, and for, The Dot and Line.
Tears for Toons, 2016-2020 (and a Long Time Before)
Editor John Maher pens his final words on, and for, The Dot and Line.
The Very Best of The Dot and Line
The editors pick 25 of the finest pieces this site has ever published (we’re sure of it).
Ask Scratchy: JHM + EVB
The founders of the Dot and Line, John Maher and Eric Vilas-Boas, need some advice as their beloved project comes to an end, and our house head shrinker, Dr. Scratchansniff, is here to help.
Watching ‘The Dot and the Line’ Together, One Last Time
“I just housed a whole sleeve of Peeps while this was happening.” The editors reflect as a group, and also relax, over the original ‘The Dot and the Line’ short.
Some Cartoons We Barely, If Ever, Covered That You Goons Have to Now That We’re Gone
The media needs to cover cartoons better. Here’s a place it can start, as suggested by our editors.
Words That We Didn’t Write
We wrote a lot of words on the Dot and Line. But it could have been so much worse. We could have written these.
Rankings We Never Wrote, Ranked
As the Dot and Line says goodbye, we present to you one final and very important ranking.
What Queer People Want the Future of Cartoons to Look Like
Queerness in cartoons has been subtextual for a long time, and a new generation of cartoons has brought it to the forefront. As Elly Belle writes and reports, having spoken to dozens of people from the LGBTQIA+ community, there’s a lot more to be done.
If Warner Bros. Won’t Put Us Up at the Cartoon Network Hotel or Pay Us Sweet, Sweet Cash, It Should at Least Let Us Live in Its Water Tower
Look, this is pretty self-explanatory. What do you want from us, a road map?
Let Us Now Pour One Out for Fry’s Dog in ‘Futurama’
What you see here is the manifestation of two universes, Eric Vilas-Boas explains.
To All the Toons I Loved Before
In which Dot and Liner Marley Crusch pens her last love letters to the cartoons of her heart.
Why My Parents Banned the ‘Ed, Edd n Eddy’ Catchphrase ‘Buttered Toast’ From Being Uttered in Our Home
A few words on this important piece of personal history from John Maher: “Because! I! never! stopped! saying it!”
The Untold Saga of the Gross D+L Logos We Rejected and the One We Finally Picked
A big part of any publication is the design that goes into it. And sometimes our designs were bad. Laughably bad. Eric Vilas-Boas runs through how they could have been way worse.
Drop Us a Line—Or Even Just a Dot—Now and Then, Will You?
Here’s how to keep in touch with The Dot and Line’s alumni from now on.
Aaaaand…that’s all, folks! (For good, this time.)
Well, this is the end, beautiful friends. Thanks so much for reading our final newsletter, and for reading our website for the past four years. Be in touch.
Love,
The Dot and Line
P.S. “Bang.”
