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Jeff Victor has taken some of the most famous movie and cartoon characters and stripped them down to their simplest forms—just color and squares—yet somehow, they’re still instantly recognizable.

After the preschool years, kids still like cartoons, but they want something more complex than straightforward messages about friendship and sharing. They like a bit of conflict, some bad guys (who ...