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Cartoons, which used to be mainly for kids — and that weird guy down the block who had lived in his parents’ basement just a little too long — have become the most vital kind of grown-up ...

But there is a growing trend for modern cartoon characters to do what their animated ancestors never did – grow up. The latest children’s character to do a Tracy Barlow and walk down the ...