To be honest, I kind of skipped over watching cartoons, and reality TV shows raised me. Literally, in fifth grade I ran home from school and watched ‘Jersey Shore’ every Thursday, girl.
There was a point where I was just saying to myself, breathe. Inhale, because I felt really heavy – I felt like those cartoons when they experience G and your face is just sagging down.
I speak from a nerd’s perspective because I’ve been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on ‘Speed Racer’ and ‘Star Blazers’ and ‘Battle of the Planets,’ and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese.
If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade… a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they’re easy to absorb.
I’m not up on today’s television for children, because it’s mostly cartoons that don’t seem to interest me.
I enjoyed doing the ‘Tom and Jerry’ cartoons, and if we had never done anything else, I would have been perfectly satisfied.
I think that – whether I should admit this or not – Joe and I, going back to ‘Tom and Jerry,’ have been very lucky in being able to do cartoons that have universal appeal.
Cartoons ran into trouble when they became too much like real life images. Cartoons had become poor imitations of the real thing.
I saw one of the old ‘Tom and Jerry’ cartoons the other day. I hadn’t seen it for 30 years and I didn’t remember it. We made 160 of them! I thought it was a very funny cartoon.
We moved amazingly fast because our product was acceptable to a broad market: tots, teenagers, adults. Even to some people who never before liked cartoons. When we started we knew Disney already had the kids. So we figured we should be broader.
I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master’s thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.
The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control – to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children’s cartoons or utopian novels. But it’s just a fantasy.
When I was a kid, ‘Land of the Lost’ was my favorite show, just because it was – in the landscape of Saturday morning cartoons – it was so unique. It was a live-action show and kids were in it, these creatures, these Sleestaks and dinosaurs. Every week was a different adventure. I couldn’t wait. I loved it so much.
In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
I’ve loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I’m not sure why.
Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz.
Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.
I don’t think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
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