Hi Everyone! Andrew asked me to fill in for him today because he says I know more about this subject than he does. Well, Andrew dear, I would be flattered, except I do dislike being essentialized. There's more to us kangaroos than pockets and boxing gloves, you know! Still, I can't blame the boy. It seems that every time you see a cartoon kangaroo, he or she is always swaggering around ready to punch someone or showing off a distended pouch filled with who-knows-what. It's positively ignorant, not to mention embarrassing. Now I haven't given the matter much thought, but if I had to put a starting date to all of this nonsense, it would be sometime in the 1930s, when a certain Mouse was making his mark all over the newfangled world of animation. Everyone loved the Mouse --and they loved his friends, too: the duck, the dog, the cow, the girl mouse. I'm sure you know who they are. Kiko the Kangaroo, c. 1936-37 The Mouse and his ...