Michael Paulus

As children, almost all of our attention is taken up by cartoon characters. We watched them before school; had them printed on our pencil cases and lunch boxes; then we'd rush home to watch them on the TV and fall asleep holding stuffed replicas of them at night. 

In Character Study, Michael Paulus takes a look at how, as a child in the '60s, he "tended to take for granted the distortions and strange bodies of these entities.These Icons are usually grotesquely distorted from the human form from which they derive."

Betty Boop: If I had seen this when I was 12, I would have been very upset...

Hello Kitty: Not so cute now, are we?