During Wednesday in between my huge break given to us, Bobby and I went to the MoCCA(Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art) because we both wanted to see it.
     I grew up watching cartoons on Cartoon network on Cartoon Network and animated movies from Disney channel. I also read comic books. From Tom and Jerry to the Jetsons to the Flinestones to Johnny Bravo, I loved watching them every morning. However, in this museum, the cartoon and comic art wasn't familiar to me. Even though the comics and photos posted were not of my age, they still gave me the sense of my childhood.
     The gallery was based on a timeline and it began with the 1940s. The majority of the art works were on Archie Comics in the timeline. In the 1940s, the cartoons and comic book characters were revolved around popular culture and trends. The characters fashion was most important. There were three main characters that constantly appeared in all the works presented, Archie wearing the signature 'R' sweatshirt, Veronica, and Betty. In the 1960s, also known part of the baby booming era, I found fashion in the characters to be the premium concentration. In this era, I found the characters to wear more loose and comfortable clothing. The girls even started to wear pants as to the 1940s dresses that covered their knees. Also what was interesting was the incorporation of more minority characters, such as African Americans having afros, after the political and social turbulence that was happening. Moving onto the 1980s, more dramatic changes came about. More characters came to wear fashionable eye glasses. The prevalence of cellular phone usage and the prevalence of more punk rockers and newer hair styles such as the mohawk were on the rise. Also, I saw the fashion in the 1940's characters transform in the 1980s and 1990s. They started wearing short short skirts opposed to the dresses covering the knees. In the 1990s Archie Comics had many scenes on the beach as shown through the preserved photos of the comics. They expose more skin such as girls wearing bikinis and Archie Comics also expose more sexuality with Archie kissing a girl, wrapped around him. Also, by observing more closesly to these cartoon comic characters, the main character wears more trendy 'R' sweaters as each decade moved on. Quoted from the information given to me from the Museum, "Archie is the eternal teen." The lives of Archie Comic characters reflected that of the real life incidences and popular trends throughout time.