Still, this is the man who made the quite remarkable, tender (and melancholy) 1994 documentary "Crumb," about the cartoon genius Robert Crumb and his serenely strange family, and who has now delivered "Ghost World," his first feature film, about two teenage girls in their awkward years, a film that is drawn from Daniel Clowes's underground comic books of the same name.
Clearly he was a cartooning genius, and his was a line I wanted to honor.
When they worked together at Tulsa, Hand would tape pictures of the cartoon boy genius Jimmy Neutron on Malzahn's office door, even drawing in Malzahn's glasses for effect, to poke his reputation as an offensive mastermind.
Meanwhile, Donna and Gordon's marriage feels layered, no longer a cartoon of a genius husband and a henpecking supermom.
If you don't know what pronoun to use for someone, you can always either ask or say 'they'!" (If we're online, I refer them to this genius cartoon from Robot Hugs).
(the latter is super lame, btw) But this cartoon is not only absolutely genius, it's also very appropriate as today's Valentine's Day.
It's a bit like the 1990s cartoon series "Pinky and the Brain," only the genius mice in this story aren't make-believe.
The advertising geniuses behind the cartoon characters and celebrity endorsers "all deserve a huge yay and hurray," Mr. Ellis said in a phone interview from his home near Charlotte, N.C.
Obviously, what was presented on this Saturday morning television cartoon was nowhere near the absurd genius of The Monkees -- but they didn't even try.
A genius can watch a cartoon and think about what kind of animation is used, how the characters are developed, how the plot relates to real life, why the cartoon is popular, and practically write a dissertation discussing various facets of that single cartoon.
Not that there's much to remember about this glib, perky recycling of the eponymous 1960s cartoon sideshows, despite the bewildering premise of a genius time-travelling dog fighting for custody of his adopted human son.
