Tom and Jerry cartoons come with a warning about prejudice ... not really being about the content of a book or work of art but about individual students asserting their own importance.

On Feb. 10, 1940 — 85 years ago Monday — the first Tom & Jerry cartoon short and the first cartoon directed by the soon-to-be- famous team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera was released in ...

Tom Darcy, a former Newsday editorial cartoonist who won a 1970 Pulitzer Prize for his graphic commentary on the Vietnam War, racism and the plight of the poor, died Wednesday in East Meadow, N.Y ...