From Dell Four Color Comic #244, circa 1948. A lot of cartoons were openly playing with your mind at this time, inserting dream sequences which were a hundred times more entertaining than anything in Inception. The Brownies, a group of three little boy wood sprites, find missing chicken chicks (thought it was a duckling and wandered off into the water), and in this episode, travel through a portal under an oak tree into a land that redefines the term "non sequitur".Having just seen an ad for the Blu-Ray release of Alice in Wonderland, I can say I've always loved loopy, loony stuff like this. But if you read between the lines, you discover something else about dreams, at least in art. You can insert lines like "you can be our king and king!" and have them play unquestioned. A paranoid parent would surely be gathering a small army to protest outside the publishing offices today, claiming that it's teaching their children that being gay is okay.
