Pre-Lucas, unless you were making cartoons, you needed real settings and real people to make movies, television shows and commercials.

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Then he had a number of dead-end jobs, drawing cartoons in his spare time and eventually making enough from them to live on.

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Memarian believes cartoons have a unique ability to capture complex political problems in a succinct and visually powerful way, making them universally appealing.

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