Playful and gory, the cartoonish paintings of Dee Dee Ramone, bassist for The Ramones, are every bit as shocking as their creator.

While obviously not as cartoonish as the deluded leaders in The Office, du Pont seemed to stretch credulity at times.

As pioneers of experiential art, the duo wanted to blur the lines between reality and cartoonish fantasy.

It would have been all too easy, as early episodes threatened, to make Red as cartoonish as a Joel Schumacher Batman villain.