We here at Nib Manor are not particular fans of cartoons. Since the great days of the Warner Brothers cartoons in the 1940s and 1950s, and the Jay Ward productions of the 1960s, there hasn't been much to our taste. Japanese anime is boring, Scooby Do is and was just dumb. Like many contemporary live action films, most modern cartoons lack depth.
But this past week, while recovering from a 24 hour virus excited by the World Series, I happened to come across this program on the local PBS television station:Welcome to Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks Entara Ltd. I was impressed. I'm not usually much a fan of computerized animation, but this program is an exception. More importantly, though, is that the stories are good. And they're funny. And they have a bit of a moral without being being heavy-handed like the old flannelgraph presentations in Sunday School.
Check it out if you get a chance and while you can. The show is an English production and you can bet dollars to doughnuts that some imam in Nottingham or Derby is getting ready to file a protest claiming that an Irish pig is an insult to Muslim kiddies. But you know what that great humanitarian, the Ayatollah Khomeni said, "There is no place for humor in Islam."
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