---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-009193"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TOON"
cik: "0001355848"
company_name: "Kartoon Studios, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:01:07.344407+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Henry Sicignano resigns from Kartoon Studios board, enters consulting pact

## Summary
- Sicignano resigned as director and Audit Committee chair effective Dec 12, 2025 for personal reasons, no disagreement.
- Entered 3-month consulting agreement effective Dec 12, 2025; services include strategic, operational and governance advice.
- Compensation: 77,000 fully vested restricted shares (no cash); plus December director compensation of $5,000 cash and $5,000 in shares.
- Shares are control securities until Mar 12, 2026; leak-out limits sales to 20,000 shares per trading day.
- Consultant retains 62,116 prior director shares; engagement is non-exclusive with no minimum hours.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-009193
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TOON
- cik: 0001355848
- company_name: Kartoon Studios, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1355848/000168316825009193/0001683168-25-009193-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1355848/000168316825009193/kartoon_8k.htm

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