Let's get animated: The cartoons we'll keep watching in 2018

Cartoons come in many forms and flavors. Some are for children, some for children of all ages, some for viewers of all ages whether they feel like children or not, and some most definitely for adults only. They may share historical referents and bend to visual trends, but every cartoon literally shapes reality to its own ends.

Creatively, things have been pretty good in television animation for three decades now, dating from Ralph Bakshi's 1987 weirdsville "Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures," which opened the door for historically informed individual vision and gave a start to a new generation of excited animators. As with live-action productions, cartoon TV tends to be stranger and scrappier than what you find on the big screen. TV