Cartoons and horror at first sound like an unlikely pairing. Cartoon art is often associated with younger audiences or children's television, while horror often encompasses much more mature content.

(Cartoon Network's main audience, not surprisingly, ranges in age from 6 to 11 and skews heavily to young boys.) And characters are what help an audience cross those lines from medium to medium.

The cartoon is still going today — a 900-episode run. To put that in context, The Simpsons, which is often the butt of jokes for its long broadcast life, only has 587 episodes.

There's a mod that's been making its way around the gaming scene lately that turns Skyrim into a cartoon. No, it doesn't make the game cel-shaded, it just removes most of the graphics features and ...