Word: cartoon
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...glorious achievement belongs to “When You Wish Upon a Weinstein,” the once-banned episode of Seth MacFarlane’s “Family Guy,” whose no-holds-barred, nothing-is-sacred schtick has made the show the biggest primetime cartoon since “The Simpsons”—and made MacFarlane a star. But for a man who has built his career on flouting the standards of acceptable humor on TV, MacFarlane sees himself as a kind of traditionalist. The way he describes it, his new show...
...Consider splash bombs 3 (2002), one of several giant acrylics in which Majerus incorporates the logo of those eponymous American water toys amid swirls of color that is smeared and partially erased. Or a canvas in which cuddly cartoon characters frolic in the snow beneath the work's menacing title, maybe you should annihilate (1993), in large, blood red letters. Other paintings include cameos by Super Mario Brothers, Lara Croft, the Road Runner, the General Electric logo and a giant Nike sneaker...
...emotion. Given almost constant exposure to the new and other media, I’m afraid to say I was shamefully desensitized to the accounts of brutal violence that are recounted in this story. Though I cried when Lightning McQueen pushed The King over the finish line in the cartoon movie “Cars,” I barely blinked or cringed while reading about a boy who was kicked to death in Ethiopia fighting over rations.Eggers saves us, though, by recognizing that in our violence-saturated daily lives, what really brings the suffering home in this story...
...words) makes a mockery of proportion, weight and space. People hate her for it just as people hate Robert Crumb for his outlandish depictions of women and blacks. But just as Crumb's art comes from daring to confront his own prejudices, it takes guts to put your cartoon's next Crumb's, and Kominsky Crumb's artwork has a brutish appeal in her flat, crude style. It suits her content in its bluntness and in its literal "colorfulness...
...that her sense of humor isn’t significantly crippled by the exhaustion and anxiety provoked by 23 course requirements and a joint thesis. She would like to give a shout out to the core office—we’ll always have Science A. Catch her cartoon on Fridays...