So what makes a cartoon character cute? You could reduce the answer down ... with his fin damaged from birth and his human-like facial features, appeals to our caregiving instincts.

There’s a generational split over which of the two stars of Disney‘s 1942 animated classic is the cutest-ever TV and movie cartoon character ... fictional, non-human characters were included.

Ultimately, what we find cute is child-like qualities which endear us to the character and "speak to our nurturing instincts", as Chappell Ellison writes on Cartoon Brew. Stephen Jay Gould ...

You've got to hand it to cuteness: it does sell. A string of shopping malls across the city have adopted cute cartoon characters for their summer campaigns, which feature shopping privileges ...

Zoobe, a Berlin-based startup, has another cutesy option to add to the pile: cartoon avatars that animate ... to animate your message or a bunnyesque human they have your bases covered.

The coffee chain has a new collab with an iconic cartoon (Picture ... a brand new version of the iconic character, known as Joe Kind Snoopy. The cute comic character will swap the red jumper ...

And it turns out that the similarity between his kids and the cartoon characters is pretty incredible. This point was illustrated through cute side-by-side comparisons of Seol Ah and Ddochi ...

If it’s possible for a Pixar movie to be both cute and problematic ... inhabited by anthropomorphized characters representing three of the four elements as defined by the ancient Greeks ...