Courage, The Not So Cowardly Dog (Merch Origin Story)
PART 1 Growing up, Courage the Cowardly Dog was one of my favourite cartoons. It also gave me a lot of nightmares, especially that episode of “King Ramses’ Curse” where the ghost kept saying, “Return the Slab”. My Spirit Animal Why Courage Resonates With Me As a kid, I accepted the title of the cartoon, hook line and sinker. But as an adult, I began to wonder why Courage was referred to as a ‘coward’, when he was the one constantly saving Muriel and Eustace from all sorts. More so, his name was Courage and yet he was termed ‘cowardly’; what a witty use of Oxymoron for a kids show. This also brings to my attention how much effort was put into a lot of our cartoons back in the day. They had real life lessons whilst being so funny. Fast forward a few years and the quality of cartoons has greatly declined. Lord knows I’m going to have an archive of the old cartoons I watched and that’s exactly what my kids will grow up on. So help me God! 2025? Never Again! Fast forward to 2025, a year...