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Article: Santo Bugito / Spider-man / Earthworm Jim / The Tick
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- April 16, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Village Voice Apr 16, 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Those so-called lower life forms are getting their due, infiltrating our culture through its most vulnerable unmonitored backwaters: Saturday morning cartoons. (Not to mention the recent roach-infested X-Files episode that provided the series's finest hour to date.) Created by weird adults, kids' cartoons have always been a repository of repressed desires and fantasies, with bugs and other vermin often serving as convenient metaphors for the tike audience itself. Animation's earliest and most famous creation was, after all, a perky mouse. and is it mere coincidence that animation's basic structural element--the cel--happens to be the most important architectural component of our insect ...