Cartoon Character Picker
Who gets the splash page?
Who is on the page?
Tap characters to add or remove their panel (up to 12).
Six decades of Saturday mornings, laid out as a comic page. Shortlist the characters you actually want in the running, press Make the Splash, and an action burst goes flying from panel to panel. It settles on one, the rest of the page greys out, and your character bursts open into a full splash page.
- Drawing prompts
- Family game night
- What to watch
Six decades of Saturday mornings, on one page
Cartoon characters are the rare kind of famous that crosses generations without anyone planning it. A grandparent, a parent and a child can each name a favourite and be talking about a different decade entirely. This picker puts them all in the same comic page, sends an action burst flying across it, and gives one of them the splash.
How the comic page works
Tap characters on and off, or type your own. The page relays itself around whatever is left.
A BOING travels panel to panel, slowing as it goes. Every panel it crosses jolts.
The page greys out and your character's panel bursts open to fill it, action lines and all.
The roster, by era
Switch off everything outside one row and you get a themed page — which is the fastest way to settle an argument about whether cartoons were better back then.
| Era | Who is on the page | What that era did best |
|---|---|---|
| Golden age | Popeye, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Tom and Jerry | Timing. No dialogue needed — the gag is entirely visual |
| 60s–70s TV | Fred Flintstone, Scooby-Doo | The format: same premise, same beats, every single week |
| 80s–90s | Garfield, Bart Simpson, Tommy Pickles, Arnold | Characters with actual attitude, aimed at kids and adults at once |
| Cartoon Network era | Dexter, Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Courage | Bold art styles and jokes that trusted children to keep up |
| Modern | SpongeBob, Patrick Star, Bluey | Warmth — the modern hits are kind rather than cynical |
A note on the artwork. Every icon here is an original drawing of an ordinary object from the character's show — a kitchen sponge, a carrot, a spinach can, a mystery van, a doghouse. Nothing depicts or imitates a character design or logo.
Ways people use it
- Drawing challenges. Draw whoever gets the splash page, in your own style.
- Charades and impressions. Act out the character you landed on and let everyone guess.
- What to watch. Land on a character, then go and find their best-loved episode.
- Costume decisions. A fast answer for dress-up day.
- Cross-generation game night. Run it with the whole family and watch who recognises whom.
Why these characters outlive their shows
Almost every character here can be described in one sentence, and that is not an accident. Garfield hates Mondays. Courage is terrified and helps anyway. Daffy desperately wants to be the star. A character that simple can be dropped into any situation and still behave consistently, which is exactly what a show needs when it has to produce hundreds of episodes.
It is also why they travel so well between generations. You do not need to have seen the show to understand the character — one line is enough, and the rest is just watching them be themselves in a new room.
A fair pick, every time
No panel on the page is luckier than another. The winner is drawn uniformly over positions using your browser's cryptographic random generator before the burst moves, the characters are shuffled into fresh panels on every run, and the burst is sent to each panel's exact centre with nothing clamping how far it can travel — so a corner panel comes up exactly as often as a middle one.
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