With “Wolfwalkers” — the final installment of the studio’s informal trilogy of films about Irish folklore — Cartoon Saloon has realized its true potential at last.

A cartoon from 1889 illustrates perfectly the anti-Irish sentiments of the period. Entitled “The Mortar Of Assimilation—And The One Element That Won’t Mix” it appeared in Puck magazine and ...

Cartoon Saloon. This preservation of myth and folklore extends to the animation itself. Rather than using 2D animation simply for nostalgia’s sake, Cartoon Saloon uses it to reflect the Celtic ...

The initial idea for what would become “The Secret of Kells” was already there in 1999 when a collection of about 10 people working loosely under the Cartoon Saloon banner first set up shop in ...

The omission of “My Father’s Dragon” from the 2023 Oscar nominations list for best animated feature sparked murmurings of disapproval from within the industry. The Netflix film — directed ...

After it was finished, Cartoon Saloon shrank to twelve people in a single office. Stewart went to Laika Studios, a stop-motion outfit near Portland, Oregon, which also released its début feature ...

British cartoonist Peter Brookes leaned into the worst of Irish stereotypes for his cartoon in The Times this week about US President Joe Biden's Irish visit.

He began contributing cartoons to The Irish Times in summer 1971. When he joined the paper officially in 1976, after five years of sending cartoons down on the train, it had, to his knowledge ...

Animated feature "Wolfwalkers," from Kilkenny-based studio Cartoon Saloon, has won Best Film at the Irish Film and Television Awards 2021.

Newspapers and magazine cartoons from the turn of the 20th century illustrate these sentiments. Many of these images were originally published in humor magazines such as Puck and The Wasp .