Word: cartoon
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...that crowd most American downtowns. Nobody wants to summon back the naive techno-optimism of the 1950s and '60s. All the same, spend an hour at moma, and you can't resist gathering these buildings into an imaginary skyline as sexy as anything from TV's space-age Jetsons cartoon. Remember when the future was fun? Perhaps it still is. But scary fun all the same. After 9/11, skyscrapers first have to be places where people can feel comfortable on those high, exposed floors. Military-style security has re-entered the thinking of civilian architects in a way not seen...
...college, my television cartoon watching was limited to a weekly dose of “The Simpsons” and, occasionally, an episode of “The Family Guy” a roommate had downloaded onto his computer. But my summer cartooning mixes the comic and the action, and the protagonists of these shows are heroes—they display great courage, defeat their enemies and always do the right thing...
...Hanging with the Heroes,” the name of Disney’s block of hero cartoon shows, is the perfect escape for the burnt-out college student. The medium of animation allows for imaginative freedom from reality. Aladdin elicits the help of a genie and a magic carpet to outwit murderous mud monsters. A young Hercules battles giant spiders and multiple-headed lions. Kim takes down colossal robots and magma guns...
Finally, while the real world may be plagued with disappointment or failure, my cartoon heroes always succeed in overcoming the life-threatening burdens placed before them...
...This counterpoint of seriousness and play manifests itself most fundamentally in the artwork. The characters appear mostly in a silly "cartoon" style, with tropes like exaggerated brows, buckteeth and expressive eyes. (Tezuka defies expectations of what Japanese "manga" looks like.) These caricatures are then set against highly detailed backgrounds, with Tezuka often taking extra panels, or even entire two-page spreads, just to linger on the environments. He has such a mastery of the form that while providing every necessary panel to tell the story he has extra space just for breathing room. A temple sits stoically in the woods...