"Once a Hero" failed, he added, to achieve sufficient audience empathy with leading characters modeled on cartoon heroes.

Real cartoon heroes require less maintenance, fewer drugs, no money and can be erased.

Today Fox looked like a cartoon hero, pipestem legs and wild hair.

In 1990, she helped create and produce a cartoon, Kimboo, to offer cartoon heroes to African children.

I whispered, feeling the agony of anyone who has ever watched a cartoon hero try to outrun a rolling boulder.

Today's cartoon heroes struggle with more Freudian predicaments.

The screen was divided into four corner panels surrounding a fifth narrow panel that contained a cartoon "hero".

With his saucer-size eyes and dimpled smile, he looked like a stuffed-toy version of a Japanese cartoon hero.

It's just a different kind of cartoon hero.

No longer the sole province of athletes, cards are increasingly featuring subjects like cartoon heroes, television personalities, rock stars and even murderers.