Even Cartoon Stars Have To Grow Up... And Isiah Stephens Shows Us How They Do!!!

Even though I am 35 years old I still love me some cartoons. I always have and I always will. The highlight of my cartoon watching life was obviously my childhood Saturday mornings, but the pinnacle has to be my late teens in the 90's when cartoons took over all time slots available. I am talking about a time when Cartoon Network realized they were a real network and began airing great ORIGINAL programming in prime time (Dexter's Lab), when Comedy Central decided to back two crazy maniacs and their show about 4 wild kids as the flagship of the network (South Park), and Nickelodeon continued its streak of big time long lasting hits (Rugrats)... the 90's were a time when cartoons were taken from the morning and into the stratosphere. So now that some time has passed it is only right to imagine what those characters may look like if they have grown up. Artist Isiah Stephens has done a great job on some of the casts, and they are spot on. You can see more of Stephens work by clicking here, and you can see the rest after the jump...

Lego Characters by Jung Von Matt

I came across these cool minimalist recreations of animated/children characters composed of Lego bricks by artist Jung Von Matt over at SuperPunch. I thought that the simpleness of them was very cool, and that they are easily identifiable despite the fact that they lack detail. You got the Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons, Bert & Ernie, and the cast of South Park. Check out all four of the pics after the jump...

What If The South Park Kids Were Real People?

Then they might look like this... very cool video, I believe that was made for promotion of the South Park TV show in Amesterdam by Comedy Central... you gotta love the Europeans!!!

Springfield Backs Up South Park... Who Wants What???

Even though the creators of South Park and The Simpson's have clashed throughout the years, poking fun at each other and taking swipes at each other, this past Sunday the creators of The Simpsons did the unthinkable... they backed up the South Park crew. South Park creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone have drawn the ire of some pretty radical islamic groups after the latest episode of the controversial show in which the repeatedly poke fun at the prophet Mohammed. Comedy Central, which airs South Park, has only shown a editted version of the show and won't post the un-editted version online since they fear reprecussions for the creators. Parker and Stone are not backing off, and the boys over in Springfield got they back. During the opening credits of The Simpsons on Sunday, we see Bart writing on the chalk board. The message has changed many times over the years, but this time the message was in support of Parker and Stone... it read "South Park- we'd stand beside you if we weren't so scared". This is awesome on sooooo many levels, because even though they may be competitors, when free speech gets attacked they must all unite because they would want the same support if they were the ones being critiqued. Hopefully, the radical Muslims will back off and leave Parker and Stone be... then they can make some more episodes of South park that degrade somebody else's religious beliefs and start some more shit. But if it does pop off, it's good to know that Bart and the Crew will be their to back up Stan and the Gang... bring it son!!!