Running Cartoons

While we all have our favorite cartoons from your growing up a number of our favorite cartoons involve chases. Whether it be Tom chasing Jerry or Sylvester chasing Tweety or Elmer Fudd on the go behind Bugs Bunny or perhaps the most famous of these; Wiley E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner many of the most famous cartoons involve a chase of some kind and whoever is being chased invariably will never be caught because once that happens then the running is over and the cartoon is over. Unless of course you're talking about too cool Bugs Bunny because he was caught a number of times and then he just escapes, but invariably, when the only point of the cartoon is the running and chasing that is involved, the chased will never be caught by the chaser.

Many of the cartoons that involve running are some of the most famous in history and can be broadcast again for generations and generations and never lose their impact. This is because these running cartoons are very elemental at their base and speak to a global understanding of good versus evil or good guy versus bad guy. While often time is in running cartoons we won't even really understand why the chasing is going on just that we know who to root for because we don't want that person is getting chased to ever be caught.

In running cartoons and the person who is fleeing speaks to our affiliations with youth, exuberance, free spiritedness, and defiance of authority. While none of these themes are typically overtly brought out in running cartoons they are very much in the air and are very apparent after years and years of careful study.

But whether in print or on television, cartoons have many intricate elements beyond just the story. Whoever is writing the cartoons has to keep continue to write them so they will have what's known as a cartoon Runner who will take the finished products and deliver them to the publication apartment. This is a low-level employee who just wants to be around the art of the cartoon and isn't really is interested in the money so much as the experience. While this was the thing that is very popular in the heyday, cartoon runners have been replaced by computer CGI animation and other things that make a task like that obsolete. However even in their heyday the running cartoons needed cartoon runners to get the cartoons flying off the shelf and into the hands of the adoring readers.