Working with the descendants of such beloved cartoon icons is a lot of pressure, Mr. Schwartz said.

But when he clicked on a cartoon icon, the screen went black and said, "Disk error."

In 2012 Lancôme premiered a TV advertisement featuring 1930's cartoon icon Betty Boop.

Yosemite Sam was the cartoon icon of the similarly-mustachioed Pittsburgh Pirates player Phil Garner in the late 1970s.

It is a funny book, vividly designed in today's de rigueur style of bold colors, cartoon icons and choppy text blocks.

The boxes of yesteryear, with pictures of Soupy Sales and cartoon icons, can be worth $3,000 among collectors, he said.

The program even has two interfaces, one with pull-down menus, presumably for adults, and the other with large cartoon icons, for kids.

She stares for a second, recognizing it, a well-known cartoon icon made real.

Antennae caps, $3 to $10, include Asian cartoon icons like Big Mouth Boy and Melody, and some have internal lasers that blink when a call comes in.

It has also slimmed down the once portly physiques of its cartoon icons.