Cartoons Are So Yesterday
September 6th 2011 20:15
Do they still stack up in the minds of kids today - or have they been knocked to the canvass as TV executives fight for the hearts, minds and pocket money of younger viewers.
Characters such as Felix the Cat, Tom and Jerry, Heckle and Jeckyl and Popeye found favour way back when to be followed by the likes of everyone from 'that Oscar winning rabbit' and Japanese invasion of the late 50s and 60s fronted by Gigantor, Prince Planet, Marine Boy and Astro Boy through to classic 70s and even 80s shows.
Perhaps I'm a little out of touch - but outside of Transformers - you just don't hear kids either talking about - let along raving on about cartoon anymore.
OK - perhaps it's fluff that has passed its use by date - perhaps its seen as non-sense viewing - perhaps the politically correct crowd have infiltrated the industry and unless there is some sort of meaningful lesson to be learned in each and every episode then there's no entertainment value in cartoons.
Sure, the Simpsons get a run - but after 20 years of screenings and a couple of movies - you'd think that perhaps that suggests there is a market still there for a few more airbrushed one dimensional comics out there.
With particularly small violins playing somewhere in the background of my mind I still long for the days when slapstick humour, anvils falling on coyotes and buckshot made for harmless fun.
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