I like cartoons. I mean, who does not.
It's an age of innocence that only lasts about ten years where each story starts with 'Once upon a time ' and ends with 'happily ever after. '
The End.
Or is it?
I have fond memories of awaking early before middle school simply to stare in front of the TV and watch Tom & Jerry run around chasing one another.
Or classic characters like Dick Dastardly and his fighter pilot dog Muttley, with that unmistakable bark-cum-laugh hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!
Thanks to those ingenious Warner Bros, moms and pappas around the planet taught their kids about the birds and the bees with dogs and cats.
And roosters, bears, mice, rabbits, panthers, ducks. In reality it seemed, anything apart from an actual person.
And who can forget Bugs Bunny's gusto for carrots, Wiley Coyote's obsession with ACME bombs, and Pepe Le Pew's incessant sexual charges at anything with a heart beat.
Come to consider it, those creative illustrators were readying us tiny critters for life in (and beyond) the play ground.
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 don't know which was more sugary - the Fruit Loops or the Loony Tunes?
Saturday morning TV sure was a proper Animal Farm. (And no, not the one you're thinking).
You learned the facts of life from toons - much before The Facts Of Life was first aired in 1979!
Then there was also that strange group of blue characters called The Smurfs who lived in a magical forest and ate miraculous fungi (or was that the creators of the show?). Let's bear in mind this was way before The Blue Man Group - and lots more interesting, if you ask me.
I mean, where in any society does there exist a tribe composed from just one female and a seemingly unending supply of males, controlled 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 may be a big kid or a little kid, cartoons, comics and illustrations are always heaps 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.
It's an age of innocence that only lasts about ten years where each story starts with 'Once upon a time ' and ends with 'happily ever after. '
The End.
Or is it?
I have fond memories of awaking early before middle school simply to stare in front of the TV and watch Tom & Jerry run around chasing one another.
Or classic characters like Dick Dastardly and his fighter pilot dog Muttley, with that unmistakable bark-cum-laugh hi hi hi hi hi hi hi!
Thanks to those ingenious Warner Bros, moms and pappas around the planet taught their kids about the birds and the bees with dogs and cats.
And roosters, bears, mice, rabbits, panthers, ducks. In reality it seemed, anything apart from an actual person.
And who can forget Bugs Bunny's gusto for carrots, Wiley Coyote's obsession with ACME bombs, and Pepe Le Pew's incessant sexual charges at anything with a heart beat.
Come to consider it, those creative illustrators were readying us tiny critters for life in (and beyond) the play ground.
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 don't know which was more sugary - the Fruit Loops or the Loony Tunes?
Saturday morning TV sure was a proper Animal Farm. (And no, not the one you're thinking).
You learned the facts of life from toons - much before The Facts Of Life was first aired in 1979!
Then there was also that strange group of blue characters called The Smurfs who lived in a magical forest and ate miraculous fungi (or was that the creators of the show?). Let's bear in mind this was way before The Blue Man Group - and lots more interesting, if you ask me.
I mean, where in any society does there exist a tribe composed from just one female and a seemingly unending supply of males, controlled 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 may be a big kid or a little kid, cartoons, comics and illustrations are always heaps 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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