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New magazine dares to take 80s cartoons seriously
Those of us who grew up in the '80s tend to look at cartoons from that era in two different ways: we remember them fondly because they were a part of our childhood, but at the same time the '80s signified a significant decline in the quality of animation. While toys and games based on cartoon characters were certainly not an '80s invention, many of the cartoons from that era were essentially half-hour toy commercials weighed down by bad animation and stilted dialogue. Some may argue that televised animation never fully recovered from the rote quality that ruled most of the animation from that decade.
cereal:geek, a magazine set to launch in January of 2007, wants to aproach '80s cartoons in a positive way. According to the magazine's Web site, the creators hope to "challenge the perceptions of the reader." While I'm not a big fan of '80s animation, I do like the idea of this magazine, which, as far as I can tell, will not be yet another "hey remember this?" rehash of '80s culture. Rather, the magazine will actually take these cartoons seriously, and I have to say, I really admire that. Clearly, I have my own opinions of what was churned out by the studios during that era, but I'm not so much of stickler I'm unwilling to consider another point of view.
[via Cartoon Brew]
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