Apparently I'm a latecomer to this, but WashingtonPost.com has been running video versions of Ann Telnaes cartoons since earlier this year. I think the 3/28 and 3/26 animated cartoons in particular demonstrate the value of marrying these mediums. The "Fun with Real Audio" quality of Bush and Cheney's dubbed over-audio heightens the impact of Telnaes' characteristically pointed pen.
To my mind, this sort of multimedia creativity - and the savviness of using new technology to an actual purpose, rather than for ridiculous "look what crack team of Mac-users designed!" visual gag reasons (I'm looking at you, Anderson Cooper floating pie chart) - truly could be the future of new media. Especially since the Washington Post is now a subsidary of a "diversified media and education company" kept afloat by Kaplan, and will have the luxury of taking innovative risks in the online space denied to its fellow extinction-bound ink-and-paper dailies.
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