But here there are no explanations, no sense that Travis is either (in the sickly Hollywood sense) just like all of us deep down - or a cartoon monster.

With the rise of Hitler (abetted by irresolute statesmen in London and Paris), the stage is prepared for something like those comic-book encounters of cartoon monsters, without the comedy.

The animatronic lizard that rises from the ocean and stomps on New York City landmarks has thundering metallic footsteps but the impact of a weightless cartoon monster.

In the golden yellow landscape behind stands a hollow tree in the dark recesses of which lurk the eyes and grinning mouth of a cartoon monster.

It includes brusquely painted pictures of rudimentary cartoon monsters that call to mind Kenny Scharf, and, more interesting, Lego buildings drenched in wax and displayed in stacked, white cages.

Those who want to turn Bush into some sort of cartoon monster have an agenda-to keep most of us from seeing the beast they themselves have become.

I convinced the doctor to lend me his emitter and I programmed it to assume the shape of a cartoon monster.

We're not going into that thing to go hunting for some even weirder cartoon monsters.

Shortly after, the process Alvin underwent takes effect, transforming Alvin into a zany cartoon monster.

For the Jets, the off-season speculation about Vinny Testaverde and Chad Pennington can be compared to the cartoon monster who keeps regenerating limbs to wreak more havoc.