The Eternals (Volume 1) #9.

Cartoons I'd recommend showing or watching with your kids:

1.) The Iron Giant

2.) Miyazaki movies (of course)

3.) The heartbreaking The Red Turtle

4.) Cartoon Saloon films

5.) Adventure Time (amazing)

6.) Gravity Falls (also amazing...)

7.) Avatar: The Last Airbender

8.) The Legend of Korra

9.) Batman: The Animated Series

10.) Gargoyles

11.) The Spectacular Spider-Man

12.) X-Men: Evolution

13.) Over the Garden Wall

"My dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C.S. Lewis." ― C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

The Winged Man (1880), by Odilon Redon, a classic symbolist image that has inspired me.

Fun Fact:

If you thought Maui was a jerk for throwing Moana in the ocean, then I wouldn't dig deeper into the mythology. Because Maui kills Moana in the original myth.

Well, that's not totally true. Moana from the movie is a completely original character. However, she does share a name with a Polynesian water goddess called Moana-Nui-Ka-Lehua, who could take the form of a fish or mermaid.

The legend goes that one day Maui was fishing in Moana's domain which she didn't appreciate and because she's a troublemaker like him, she tries to pull a prank on him by taking his magical fish hook and sticking it into a submerged rock. Well, after Maui realized what happened, he was furious and not one to be out pranked, he pursued Moana in revenge. After catching up to the goddess, he grabbed her by her tail and pulled her onto the shore where she slowly but surely suffocated and died.

What are my favorite Miyazaki/Ghibli films?

My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ) and Spirited Away ( 千と千尋の神隠し).

Le Roi et l'Oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird) by Paul Grimault.

The first animated surrealist film.

An animator's animated film. The King and the Mockingbird was at the forefront of animation as an art. Influenced Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.

Some adapted superhero movies I love:

Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 1 and 2

Blade

Richard Donner's Superman and Lester/Donner Superman II

Superman Returns

Batman (1989)

Batman Returns

The Dark Knight

Black Panther

Unbreakable

X-Men and X2: X-Men United

Guardians of the Galaxy

Jon Favreau's Iron Man

Logan

Wonder Woman

Doctor Strange

Thor

V for Vendetta

Watchmen

Chronicle

Split

RoboCop

Dredd

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

The Man Who Laughs (1928) by Paul Leni.

One of the most iconic and influential silent films of all time (along with Metropolis, Nosferatu, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari).

A magnificent film and one of my favorites.

Highly recommend checking it out.

And, yes, Conrad Veidt's interpretation (and Jack Pierce's make-up) inspired The Joker.

"Conan Man-Ape" by Frank Frazetta.