HOME / Culturebox : Arts, entertainment, and more. SpongeBob BaggyPants The strange, persistent demand for T-shirts featuring "urbanized" cartoon characters. By Jonah Weiner|Posted Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, at 7:01 AM ET Tweet Click here for a slide-show essay on T-shirts featuring "urbanized" cartoon characters. . Advertisement . . . Slate Slide Shows Dennis Manarchy's Massive Portraits A Cockfight in Manila Rick Santorum's Vests of Many Colors Tweet MYSLATE Save this story. Follow all Culturebox articles. Follow the Arts section. Follow stories by Jonah Weiner. MySlate is a new tool that you track your favorite parts Slate. You can follow authors and sections, track comment threads you're interested in, and more. Jonah Weiner is Slate's pop music critic.
