This month Dr. Toon plays the “What If” game to see how the world of animation would be different if in an alternative reality Dick Tracy was an animated star, Bob Clampett lived longer or Walt Disney never lost Oswald the Rabbit.

Dr. Toon draws parallels between Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons and the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the current Iraqi War.

For a second spin, Dr. Toon profiles some comic strips he thinks would make great animated properties.

Dr. Toon discusses one of the joys of being an animation fan — discovering unexpected gem moments within something seemingly awful.

Dr. Toon talks to producer/writer/director/animator Rob Renzetti about his career, his influences, and that spunky Robotic Global Response Unit XJ9 (a.k.a Jenny Wakeman), star of My Life as a Teenage Robot. The show’s first one-hour special airs on Nickelodeon August 13.

Dr. Toon investigates the gender role cultural values that children and tween animation present to the world of young spenders.

Dr. Toon gives a mortality check in DVD time. What should we choose to watch, or bet yet, buy?

Dr. Toon ponders the areas of animation in which he covers via a comment made by The Animation Pimp.

The liberal left. The religious right. Dr. Toon gets in between the two sides of the culture war that has invaded toonland.

Dr. Toon asks, “Hey, hey, hey… why make Fat Albert into a LAAF?”