Let's Have Some New Nostalgia

Can we stop with the re-imagining of old cartoon characters in different settings or in depressing circumstances?  It’s getting rather old to see another “daring” picture of how poorly happily ever after turned out to be for Disney Princesses.  How many different versions of Prince Charming sitting on a couch while Cinderella looks on in quiet desperation can there be?  Those are almost as annoying as seeing every famous buddy pair drawn in the style of Calvin and Hobbes as if that is the only two person friendship people can recall.  Calvin and Hobbes is a fantastic comic strip but what does animating every famous pair in the style really accomplish other than us knowing that you can sort of draw like Bill Watterson?  Has Calvin and Hobbes become our ideal form of friendship?  The only thing that would make these drawing even more annoying is if they were drawn in a minimalist fashion.  I imagine that a minimalist Calvin and Hobbes style cover of the Frozen princesses would destroy certain parts of the internet (start cough Buzzfeed end cough).

I simply would like to see some diversity in our endless earning for nostalgia.  I love Calvin and Hobbes, but let’s give the style apings a rest.  Why not draw your particular twosome in the style of everyone’s favorite Viking, Hagar the Horrible or America’s best soldier, Beetle Bailey.  I for one would love to see Troy and Abed dressed in the fat Viking gear rattling off one winning zinger after another.  Instead of drawing another Disney Princess doing something mundane, take a step back and reflect on whether we really need to see your view of how miserable Snow White’s life turned out to be.  Why not shift to something not played out yet, like Pixar characters!  Instead of showing a disgruntled Princess, draw the domestic discord between EVE and Wall-E (talk about an odd couple).  Here we have a goofy garbage-bot who marries a strait laced government bureau-bot.  It’ll be “Dharma and Greg”…but with robots that aren’t Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson.  I finally implore you to think before you start sketching four lines and calling it a minimalist adaption of whatever.  Wouldn’t it be cool to fully draw out your nostalgia?  I think so and as a blogger with a small audience, my opinion is all that matters.

So people, let’s stop doing the same old same old and contemporize.  There are new things to draw and obsess about.  Start annoying me with other nostalgic takes (I haven’t seen many cancelled television shows drawn in the style of “The Simpsons” lately) so I can get on with my life.  You people are killing me.