Childhood series

When I was a child I used to watch a lot of television, mostly Nickelodeon, Cartoon Networks or Fox Kids. I couldn’t watch Discovery Kids because I have older siblings and they used to bother me if I watch that “little kid TV” (even when I actually was a little kid)

One of my favorite childhood serie was Hey Arnold! –well, it is one of my favorites until today. I think that I liked and like so much Hey Arnold because it was a very real story, Arnold was a child who lived with his grandparents because his parents were lost, and he doesn’t have superpowers or something, he just went to school every day. This year I saw a “Hey Arnold” special on VIAX program “7mo vicio”, and Gonzalo Frias –the animator- talked about things that I haven’t noticed when I was a child, but now I realize that was that kind of things that made me love so much this serie. For example, Frias said that the Arnold’s world was a “low class” world, at the suburbs of New York. I mean, Arnold’s life is a very normal life, and was also the life that me and my friends were living: we were discovering the world with our little friends and with our little adventures at the city. But when I was a child I didn’t enjoy my life as it was, I always were thinking about magic and all that stuff (Harry Potter is the guilty). Now I realize –and Hey Arnold embodies that- that routine life is also beautiful.

Another serie that I liked was Invasor Zim, I like it until today and I also like the comics and art of Jhonen Vasquez, the animator of Zim. I like that serie because of the strange humor, I’ve always enjoyed that kind of “bizarre” animation and humor.