Portlander Brooke Barker has been fascinated with strange and sad animal facts for years. Some turtles breathe through their butts, for example. For a sampling of her cartoons, flip through this ...

There’s a scene in the ‘90s Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats where Stu wakes up in the middle of the night to make chocolate pudding. “It’s four o’clock in the morning,” his wife exclaims. “Why on Earth ...