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 ...

In 2001, Nickelodeon added a curious science-fiction series, Jhonen Vasquez’s Invader Zim, to its cartoon line-up. Fans of its creator were more than a little surprised. See, comic book writer and ...

Of every show to get a nostalgic reboot, Invader Zim ranked pretty low on the list. Not because we didn’t want one — we absolutely, 100 percent did. But the Nickelodeon cartoon was always a show ...

In 2001 Nickelodeon aired a short-lived cartoon about a screaming alien hellbent on bringing doom to the Earth. Now, almost a decade later Invader Zim is coming back to rule us all with the premiere ...

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 ...

The 90’s and 2000’s was a golden age of animation for both film and TV, some garnering popularity from their art, some from their stories, and others from… their sheer strange uniqueness, let’s say.

The animated series Invader ZIM first debuted on Nicekodeon back in 2001. While the show never found a Spongebob Squarepants-level audience, its unique style and sense of humor attracted a cult ...

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, ...

Back in 2002, Jhonen Vasquez’s dark sci-fi comedy Invader Zim was cancelled just 27 episodes into its run. And yet, over the past (almost) two decades, its cultural status has ballooned into something ...