Word: cartoons
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fall of 1928, Walt Disney could claim three dubious assets: a new animated cartoon character called Mickey Mouse, three short silent films featuring the spunky rodent and an idea greater than perhaps even he imagined--adding sound tracks to his little films...
...TIME's cover illustration of President Bush as Uncle Sam drew varied reactions. "The cartoon was disrespectful and offensive," wrote a Cincinnati, Ohio, reader. "Belittling our President is inappropriate at this difficult time for our country." Objecting on an entirely different ground was a Maine man who declared, "Bush does not even come close to having the qualities that I have always attributed to Uncle Sam: honesty, integrity and concern for all Americans." And a 9-year-old Kentucky girl saw an unusual resemblance: "The picture looks amazingly like the actor Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory...
...concept of schlubs turning into muscular "winners." Meanwhile the underground press got its start by appealing to the counterculture's "turn on, tune in and drop out" attitude of the time. Both narcissistic and utterly self-loathing, unhappy outcasts need never look very far in the comix rack for cartoon versions of themselves...
HRTV’s past is littered with various creative ventures: news clips, game shows, sitcoms and even an animated cartoon depicting Harvard life from the perspective of neon birds...
Barman’s charisma saved the concert from disaster. During the show, he launched into tangents about cartoon characters, sketched two female crowd members while performing “I’m Fricking Awesome” and engaged the crowd with constant banter...