The Biblia pauperum (" Paupers ' Bible "), a tradition of picture Bibles beginning in the later Middle Ages, sometimes depicted Biblical events with words spoken by the figures in the miniatures written on scrolls coming out of their mouths — which makes them to some extent ancestors of the modern cartoon strips.

In cartoon s, profanity is often depicted by substituting symbols (" The Lexicon of Comicana # Grawlixes | grawlixes ") for words, as a form of non-specific censorship.

* Duckburg and St. Canard were depicted in the cartoon Darkwing Duck as sister cities connected by a bridge, very similar to Oakland and San Francisco.

Engrish has featured occasionally in the Trey Parker and Matt Stone cartoon South Park, such as the song " Let's Fighting Love ", used in the episode " Good Times With Weapons ", which parodies the poorly translated opening theme sequences sometimes shown in anime, and in Parker and Stone's feature length Team America: World Police where the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is depicted singing the song " I'm so Ronery ".

He has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, where he usually has been depicted as the best friend and occasional arch-rival of Bugs Bunny.

An article in Q Magazine describes a 1977 Ray Lowry cartoon which depicted an arena of " either asleep, moribund, comatose " fans watching a live Genesis performance, with the band's name emblazoned on a banner above the stage reading " GENESNOOZE ".

Thing was based on a New Yorker cartoon that depicted a shocked mailman reacting to a sign posted on the Addams mansion which warned " Beware of the Thing ".

" In cartoon, he is often depicted bouncing around in ways which would make such a statement appear to be valid.

Cartoons did not have to obey the rules of the real world ( as the short films of Tex Avery and their cartoon physics proved ), and so UPA experimented with a non-realistic style that depicted caricatures rather than lifelike representations.

Goof Troop bears similarity to several early-1950s Goofy cartoon shorts which depicted Goofy as a father to a mischievous red-haired son.

* Krypton was very briefly depicted in the first Fleischer Studios-produced Superman cartoon in the early 1940s as " a planet that burned like a green star in the distant heavens where civilization was far advanced and it brought forth a race of Supermen whose mental and physical powers were developed to the absolute peak of human perfection ," implying that all Kryptonians had Superman's abilities even on their own planet.

US lawyer and politician Roscoe Conkling depicted as a jester in a 1884 cartoon.

* The 1957 Soviet cartoon " The Snow Queen " is introduced by the Sandman who is depicted as an elf who puts children into a trance ( sleep ) using a black umbrella which causes a dreamless sleep or a colourful umbrella which causes dreams.

To distinguish these personae from seriously depicted animal characters, such as Lassie or Old Yeller, cartoon animals are referred to as funny animals, a term that came into use in the 1910s.

A cartoon that was printed in The Gateway, " Antlers of the Damned ," depicted Jesus Christ and featured a dog sodomizing Space Moose.

Another Space Moose cartoon that depicted Snow White facing sodomy at the hands of the Seven Dwarves was published in Slur, a punkzine.

* Colleen R. LaRose, indicted in March 2010 for trying to recruit Islamic terrorists to wage jihad and murder a Swedish artist who had depicted Mohammed in a cartoon.

In the cartoon spin off of the show, the animators were unaware of this and depicted Fonzie combing his hair in the title.

The cartoon depicted various contemporary issues in Finnish life, from various social changes to the coming of African refugees and membership in the European Union.

Like the Coconino County depicted in George Herriman's Krazy Kat and the Okefenokee Swamp of Walt Kelly's Pogo, Dogpatch's distinctive cartoon landscape became as identified with the strip as any of its characters.

The original opening, which depicted a cartoon butterfly transforming the surroundings of young children reading books into cartoon fantasylands, was used until 1999.

The sexualization of So White recalls Walter Lantz's 1941 cartoon Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat, where a young light-skinned Black woman is depicted as attractive while the other Black characters are drawn as extreme caricatures.

He is primarily portrayed by a glove puppet, but has also been depicted in animated cartoon shorts and comic strips.

While many networks followed the show's success by scheduling other cartoons in the early 1960s, including Scooby-Doo, Where Are You !, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and The Alvin Show, none of these programs survived more than a year ( save Scooby-Doo, which, despite not being a primetime cartoon, has managed to stay afloat for over four decades ).

Daffy was # 14 on TV Guide's list of top 50 best cartoon characters and was featured on one of the issue's four covers as Duck Dodgers with Porky Pig and the Powerpuff Girls ( all of which are Time Warner-owned characters ).

In the cartoon Mucha Lucha, there are four things that make up the code of mask wrestling: honor, family, tradition, and doughnuts.

In 1908, he had four plays running simultaneously in London, and Punch published a cartoon of Shakespeare biting his fingernails nervously as he looked at the billboards.

Popularly known in Puerto Rico by its assigned channel number, Canal Cuatro, the station was also known by its animated cartoon mascot during the 1970s and 1980s, a bongo-playing cat ( known commonly as el gato de WAPA in Spanish ) and therefore its rhyming slogan is, Por el cuatro como el gato ( colloquially " on four like the cat "), which rhymes in Spanish.

The cartoon introduces Boba Fett, as well as his jet pack and rope gun, which are not used again in the feature films until Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi four and a half years later.

Originally a single-panel cartoon, Smyth later expanded it to four panels.

After a gap of nearly four years, the original cartoon strip returned to the Daily Mirror as reprints, on February 22, 2010.

The Disney Afternoon's two-hour block was broken up into four half-hour segments, each of which contained a cartoon series.

The cartoon features of game of polo played between four Disney characters, led by Mickey Mouse, and four cartoon versions of real-life movie stars.

The Weekenders is a Disney animated series about the weekend life of four diverse 7th graders: Tino Tonitini, Lorraine (" Lor ") McQuarrie, Carver Descartes, and Petratishkovna (" Tish ") Katsufrakis, voiced by veteran cartoon voice-actors: Jason Marsden, Grey DeLisle, Phil LaMarr, and Kath Soucie, respectively.

This version featured one ( later expanded to four ) original Keane cartoon without captions, and ran submission software to allow viewers to suggest their own captions.

* In the Disney cartoon Kim Possible, Kim's sidekick, Ron Stoppable, is embued with the abilities of Monkey Kung Fu master by four ancient statues.

Bray's goal was to have four units working on four cartoons at any one time ; since it took a month to complete a film, four units with staggered schedules produced one cartoon a week for use of the " screen magazines " ( a one-reel collection of live-action didactic pieces and travelogs in addition to the cartoon, that was played before the feature ).

The Fleischers hoped to discourage Paramount from committing to the series, so they informed the studio that the cost of producing such a series of cartoons would be about $ 100, 000 per short — an amazingly high figure, about four times the typical budget of a six-minute Fleischer Popeye the Sailor cartoon during the 1940s.

Animator Walter Lantz produced a short-lived cartoon series for Universal Pictures called " Maw and Paw ," though only four cartoons were released between 1953 and 1955.

Although Gerry does not seem to have been directly involved in the drafting of the district, the shape of one of the districts ( not far from his home in Essex County ) resembled a salamander, leading a local Federalist newspaper to print a political cartoon calling it a " Gerry-mander ".

Political cartoon about the 1848 presidential election which refers to Zachary Taylor or Winfield Scott, the two leading contenders for the Whig Party nomination in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War.

Wanting to make cartoons with an all-animated look, Disney signed a contract with Universal Studios leading to the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Universal's first cartoon series.

The film was a theatrical success, leading to another cartoon entitled Brotherhood of Man ( 1945 ), also sponsored by the UAW.

* The Daily Mail cartoon character Flook once stole a tram, having found a ' secret spur ' leading onto the Central Line, and was chased by a tube train.

In 1934 the studio established its own animation house, under the Screen Gems brand ; Columbia's leading cartoon series were Krazy Kat, Scrappy, The Fox and the Crow, and ( very briefly ) Li ' l Abner.

Currently, one of the leading producers of Saturday morning cartoon programming is Canada's Nelvana, a division of Corus Entertainment.

As late as 1942, in the Warner Bros. cartoon " Fresh Hare ", minstrel shows could be used as a gag ( in this case, featuring Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny leading a chorus of " Camptown Races ") with the expectation, presumably, that audiences would get the reference.

The strip ran from 1964 to 1973 and was very popular in Latin America, Europe, Quebec, and in Asia, leading to two animated cartoon series and a movie.

In this cartoon, they tell the mouse-hungry cat that a bulldog is a mouse, leading to several painful encounters for the cat.

As he developed more and more of Hearst's comics into cartoon series, he came to put semi-independent units in charge of each, leading to the growth of individual styles.

Political cartoon about the 1848 presidential election which refers to Zachary Taylor or Winfield Scott, the two leading contenders for the Whig Party ( United States ) | Whig Party nomination in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War.

When a newspaper published a political cartoon portraying railroad tycoon Collis Potter Huntington leading the governor around on a leash, Gage was so incensed by the accusation that he ramrodded a censorship bill through the California State Legislature, restricting the press whenever editorial content involved politics or politicians.

Johnson's move followed a rift with the party after he objected to an anti-Islamic cartoon of Jesus on YouTube, while Cotterill — who remains a leading EFP activist — has put his decision down to a work-related move to Preston.

The episode was aired with the Battletoads cartoon pilot, but received very low ratings and poor reviews, leading to the show not being picked up for a series.

Later he provided the voice of both Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in the 1965 cartoon series The Beatles, leading to his voicing the central character " Old Fred " in The Beatles ' animated film Yellow Submarine.

In 2008 Lee voiced the part of good-looking, bike-riding Max, in the British Disney Channel cartoon series " Famous 5: On the Case " On 22 May 2010 he appeared in BBC One's Casualty as Craig who is unexpectedly diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease Over Christmas and New Year 2008 – 09 Lee appeared at The White Rock Theatre, Hastings, performing the leading role in the pantomime Peter Pan Both Lee and the show were well received.

He wanted a strong Disney-influence to the cartoon by choosing an animal for the leading role, and decided to pick a mole after stumbling over a molehill during a walk.

He was subsequently assigned to score the sports titles Double Dribble: 5-on-5 ( 1991 ) and Soccer Superstars ( 1995 ) and the cartoon adaptations Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers ( 1991 ) and Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure ( 1993 ), often as the leading composer.

Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic, the cartoon series based on her by Saban, is centered around Princess Tenko leading a team of warriors ( Bolt, Hawk, Steel and apprentice Ali ) called the Guardians who tried to amass the scattered and stolen magical Starfire Gems, each of which had a special power.