The Dot hits the end of the Line
After four years, we're saying goodbye this week. Read our final stories today through Friday and thank our writers by contributing to our GoFundMe!
It’s been a grand old run with you all, but it’s time for The Dot and Line to come to a close. But don’t worry, it’s not all over yet! We’ve published a whole lot of good stuff over the past month you can check out below, and we’re running a whole slew of farewell stories this week in our final package, That’s All, Folks! Please give it a read, tell us what you think, and say your goodbyes on Twitter using the hashtag #ThatsAllFolks. And keep your eyes peeled on Friday for one last, special newsletter in your inbox.
One further note: we’ve launched a GoFundMe benefitting our contributors, all of whom have volunteered their time to write for us over the last four years. We wanted to give our readers an opportunity to help us support and thank them as we all navigate the coronavirus pandemic together. We hope you’ll consider donating. It would mean the world to us—and, more importantly, to them.
That’s All, Folks!
Our farewells begin today and will run through Friday morning.
All of the Last Stories We Publish Will Live Here
After a four-year run, it's the end of the Line (and his little Dot, too). Your favorite scrappy cartoon journalism website has reached its finale. But we're sending it off in style. Don’t miss it.
The Untold Saga of the Gross D+L Logos We Rejected and the One We Finally Picked
Sometimes our designs are bad. Laughably bad. Editor Eric Vilas-Boas reflects on what it was like to be the site’s maladroit art director.
Why My Parents Banned the Ed, Edd n Eddy Catchphrase ‘Buttered Toast’ From Being Uttered in Our Home
“Because I never! stopped! saying it!” Editor John Maher interviews his parents about this embarrassing (and developmentally important) tic from his childhood.
To All the Toons I Loved Before
Dot and Line special projects director Marley Crusch pens her last love letters to the cartoons of her heart.
What’s news, pussycat?
The latest pieces published on our site this month.
A Beer Here, a Page There: D+L Talks with Moe Szyslak
You know him as Moe’s Tavern’s bitter bartender. But do you know his writing? Writer Michael J. Seidlinger sat down with The Simpsons’ Moe Szyslak so he can tell it to us straight.
How Peter Lurye Made The Magic School Bus Sing
Have you ever hopped on The Magic School Bus? Little Richard and Lin-Manuel Miranda have. All aboard! The show’s composer answered some questions for editor John Maher.
Mylo the Cat Puts the Tunes in Cartoons
The internet’s most successful hip hop and cartoon mashup artist discusses his career, branching out, and giving back, with scribes Stephen Maher and Luis Erazo.
How Can I Still Love Dory When Ellen DeGeneres Sucks So Much?
There’s something fishy about this millionaire talk show host’s politics, and editor Elly Belle can’t just let her off the hook.
Myth Week!
A trio of tales on how myths managed to inspire cartoons.
How Myth Made Many of Your Favorite—or Least Favorite—Animated Movies
A cartoon mythopoeia for the masses courtesy of writer Deirdre Coyle, who put a staggering amount of research into the effort.
Giveth Sir Palamedes and the Questing Beast an Animated Series, Thou Churls!
Hark, thou televisual and cinematic executive knaves! Editor John Maher asks thee: whither the Questing Beast!?
An Urgent Question About The Black Cauldron
“IS IT STILL GOOD!?” writer Rebecca Long asks once more.
Aaaaand…that truly is all this time, folks!
Thanks so much for reading our newsletter over the last year, which is produced by Elly Belle! If you have any notes, feedback, or tips on what to watch next, email us at thedotandline@gmail.com. And if you like what we do, forward this to your friends and yell in their faces until they forward it to all of their friends. We’ve had the time of our lives curating this site for you and giving you the cartoon content we all deserve.
Love always and forever,
Eric, Elly, John, Marley, and Sammy
The Dot and Line