Today’s quote of the day comes from my youngest niece, who will turn 5 next month and who, according to my sister-in-law’s Facebook post, was upset at pre-K graduation today because of the prospect of separation from her good friends.

She distracted herself by watching some classic old Max Fleischer “Superman” cartoons. (I have no idea whose idea this was.) Anyway, according to Kelly, this was  her reaction to them:

“He changes clothes, then he helps people.”

Not a bad summary.

By the way, if you’ve never seen the Fleischer cartoons, they’re beautiful examples of the kind of full animation no one does anymore. They’ve been allowed to fall into the public domain, so you can find them lots of places. Case in point:

According to Wikipedia, it was actually the cartoons that first gave Superman the ability to fly. Prior to that, the comic book had only posited that he could leap great heights and distances due to his strength. But the Fleischer brothers thought a leaping Superman looked silly on screen, and so they kicked it up a notch.