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RR 2014/192 Toonopedia Donald D. Markstein 1999-2011 URL: http://toonopedia.com/ Last visited February 2014 Gratis
Keywords Cartoons, Electronic media, Encyclopedias
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02-2014-0044
Toonopedia was created by Donald D. Markstein, a long-time lover of all forms of cartoon, and is "the world's first hypertext encyclopedia of toons". Although most people think of cartoon in the animated sense, Markstein also included comic books, newspaper strips and more. Markstein recognized that there are countless cartoons, so he focused on American ones for Toonopedia. With > 1,800 entries on different toons, Toonopedia is not a small project, but neither is it all-encompassing. What is here is thorough and well-written, with no typographical errors to make reading difficult, but there is a lot of missing information from thousands of other toons that are not represented on Toonopedia. This was a side project for Markstein, who added in entries when he had...