Austin Allison is an Animation Feature Writer for Collider. He is also an illustator, avid cartoon watcher, and occasional singer. His karaoke favorites include singing Rainbow Connection as Kermit ...

Toto sang that love isn't always on time, and the same can be said of the animated series "Invader Zim". This bonkers show from the darkly comedic mind of artist Jhonen Vasquez must have boarded the ...

Before Invader Zim returns with a 90-minute movie by creator Jhonen Vasquez (more info here), we celebrate its quintessential episodes, the ones that relished in weird, pushed boundaries, and dared to ...

The best thing about Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus is the way it manages to perfectly capture the spirit of the TV show and transport my brain right back to the early aughts. Instead of ignoring that ...

Nickelodeon revolutionized cartoons in the early '90s with shows like "Rugrats" and "Ren and Stimpy," but by the turn of the millennium, the network was in need of some fresh voices with something new ...

After Dark: Travel back to creator Jhonen Vasquez's naughty-yet-nice holiday TV special from 2002 — about an alien trying to take over Earth with a malfunctioning Santa suit. Mr. Sludgy (a talking, ...

Invader Zim has never really been a story of heroism, at least not in the way most Nickelodeon cartoons are. Its characters were always too bitter, too gross (except for the cute robot GIR, obviously) ...

Is there nothing from the late '90s/early '00s that will be left alone? A recently distributed press release from Nickelodeon is heralding in yet another reboot of a beloved (and rather grotesque) ...