Moose and squirrel never die.

• Author: Sullum, Jacob
• Position: Briefly Noted - 'The Bullwinkle Show' - Brief article

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Here is a question that came to mind after Alex Anderson, the long-overlooked artist who created Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, died in October: Why does a grown man (me) work in an office (editor's note: a home office) that contains a Rocky and Bullwinkle lunchbox, along with plush likenesses of Rocky, Bullwinkle, Boris Badenov, and Natasha Fatale?

My fondness for The Bullwinkle Show (available on DVD as Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends) is due partly to nostalgia and partly to the limited TV options for kids in the early '70s, when I was growing up...