Cartoon characters often take on a life of their own, beyond the comic strips that created them. Animation, television and ...

When news breaks that turns a harmless cartoon into one of bad taste, someone flags it in time. But not this time. Today’s “Broom-Hilda” had passed from memory by the time the slayings occurred.

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The Chicago Tribune issued an apology this week, after running a "Broom-Hilda" cartoon that seemed to be in bad taste following the Colorado movie massacre -- even though it was ...

Jan Lachauer and Max Lang: Room on the Broom is a story of change and company. More and more characters join the well-balanced team of Witch and Cat on their magic broom. With each new member ...

Broom Hilda, a comic strip by Tulsa’s Russell Myers, is 50 years old. When the strip turned 10 in 1980, the Tulsa Tribune conducted an interview with the cartoon witch as part of a Myers interview.

He let us watch cartoons, wished us happy birthday ... into Jonny’s schoolboy scrapes and family life. It was classic Broom Cupboard fodder, and that opening note is all the time machine ...

In Short: A cartoon depicting a female CEO in an apron wielding a broom has been described as sexist and dangerous. Another cartoonist said it was a depiction of the phrase, "a new broom sweeps ...