I love comics and cartoons. I mean, who in their right mind doesn't.
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 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 panthers, mice, roosters, bears, ducks, rabbits. In fact , it looked, anything but a real human.
And who can forget Bugs Bunny's penchant for carrots, Wiley Coyote's obsession with ACME explosives, and Pepe Le Pew's ceaseless romantic advances towards anything with a pulse.
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 don't know which was more sugary - 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 toons - much before The Facts Of Life was first aired in 1979!
Then there was that bizarre collection of blue creatures called The Smurfs who lived in a wondrous forest and ate wondrous mushrooms (or was that the writers of the show?). Let's not forget this was way before The Blue Man Group - and a lot more fascinating, if you ask me.
I mean, where in any society does there exist a family unit composed of only one female and an apparently never-ending supply of males, led by the one they call "Papa"?
I believe here's where the phrase 'Who's your daddy ' had its roots, but that is 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 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 panthers, mice, roosters, bears, ducks, rabbits. In fact , it looked, anything but a real human.
And who can forget Bugs Bunny's penchant for carrots, Wiley Coyote's obsession with ACME explosives, and Pepe Le Pew's ceaseless romantic advances towards anything with a pulse.
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 don't know which was more sugary - 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 toons - much before The Facts Of Life was first aired in 1979!
Then there was that bizarre collection of blue creatures called The Smurfs who lived in a wondrous forest and ate wondrous mushrooms (or was that the writers of the show?). Let's not forget this was way before The Blue Man Group - and a lot more fascinating, if you ask me.
I mean, where in any society does there exist a family unit composed of only one female and an apparently never-ending supply of males, led by the one they call "Papa"?
I believe here's where the phrase 'Who's your daddy ' had its roots, but that is 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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