I love comics and cartoons. I mean, who in their right mind doesn't.
They represent an epoch of innocence that only lasts about 10 years where each and every story kicks off with 'Once upon a time ' and concludes with 'happily ever after. '
The End.
Or is it?
I have happy memories of getting up early before elementary school just to sit in front of the television and watch Tom & Jerry run around chasing each other.
Or timeless characters such as Dick Dastardly and his fighter pilot pooch Muttley, with that trademark bark-cum-laugh hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!
Thanks to those inventive Warner Bros, mums and dads around the world taught their children about the birds and the bees with cats and dogs.
And rabbits, roosters, panthers, bears, ducks, mice. Actually it appeared, anything except a human.
And who can forget Bugs Bunny's taste for carrots, Wiley Coyote's obsession with ACME dynamite, and Pepe Le Pew's constant amorous moves toward anything with a heartbeat.
Come to think about it, those cunning cartoonists were prepping us small rug rats for life in (and beyond) the playground.
If you take away the cute characters, whimsical music and of course, the breakfast timeslot, you had an adult grand narrative of Food, Hate and Love that was fed daily into susceptible minds together with Coco Pops, full cream milk and that mesmerising melody of 'snap, crackle and pop. '
I'm not sure which was more saccharine - the Fruit Loops or the Loony Tunes?
Weekend morning telly sure was a veritable Animal Farm. (And no, not the one I'm sure you're thinking).
You learned the facts of life from comics - a long time before The Facts Of Life was first aired in on the cusp of the 80's!
Then there were that unusual family of blue beings called The Smurfs who lived in an enchanting forest and ate magical shrooms (or was that the producers of the show?). Let's never forget this was way before The Blue Man Group - and a load more engaging, if you ask me.
I mean, where in any society does there exist a people consisting of a single female and an outwardly endless supply of males, speaheaded by the one they call "Papa"?
I think that's where the phrase 'Who's your daddy ' had its roots, but that's another subject altogether.
The point is, whether you are a big kid or a tiny kid, cartoons are always tons of fun.
It doesn't matter if you're watching them on the television or watching a pro cartoonist draw a caricature: a creative illustration, a black and white sketch, or an artistic doodle can take us all back to that golden age of innocence.
Ha ha, I said doodle.
They represent an epoch of innocence that only lasts about 10 years where each and every story kicks off with 'Once upon a time ' and concludes with 'happily ever after. '
The End.
Or is it?
I have happy memories of getting up early before elementary school just to sit in front of the television and watch Tom & Jerry run around chasing each other.
Or timeless characters such as Dick Dastardly and his fighter pilot pooch Muttley, with that trademark bark-cum-laugh hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!
Thanks to those inventive Warner Bros, mums and dads around the world taught their children about the birds and the bees with cats and dogs.
And rabbits, roosters, panthers, bears, ducks, mice. Actually it appeared, anything except a human.
And who can forget Bugs Bunny's taste for carrots, Wiley Coyote's obsession with ACME dynamite, and Pepe Le Pew's constant amorous moves toward anything with a heartbeat.
Come to think about it, those cunning cartoonists were prepping us small rug rats for life in (and beyond) the playground.
If you take away the cute characters, whimsical music and of course, the breakfast timeslot, you had an adult grand narrative of Food, Hate and Love that was fed daily into susceptible minds together with Coco Pops, full cream milk and that mesmerising melody of 'snap, crackle and pop. '
I'm not sure which was more saccharine - the Fruit Loops or the Loony Tunes?
Weekend morning telly sure was a veritable Animal Farm. (And no, not the one I'm sure you're thinking).
You learned the facts of life from comics - a long time before The Facts Of Life was first aired in on the cusp of the 80's!
Then there were that unusual family of blue beings called The Smurfs who lived in an enchanting forest and ate magical shrooms (or was that the producers of the show?). Let's never forget this was way before The Blue Man Group - and a load more engaging, if you ask me.
I mean, where in any society does there exist a people consisting of a single female and an outwardly endless supply of males, speaheaded by the one they call "Papa"?
I think that's where the phrase 'Who's your daddy ' had its roots, but that's another subject altogether.
The point is, whether you are a big kid or a tiny kid, cartoons are always tons of fun.
It doesn't matter if you're watching them on the television or watching a pro cartoonist draw a caricature: a creative illustration, a black and white sketch, or an artistic doodle can take us all back to that golden age of innocence.
Ha ha, I said doodle.
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