They’re Grrreeeaaattt!

The Miami Herald posts this article by Matt McKinney of the Star Tribune of Minneapolis about a man who collects cereal boxes:

The gang of cartoon characters who pitch breakfast cereal arrive at the nation’s tables like a surreal menagerie: there’s a pink-hued Frankenstein and several aliens, a floating blue ghost and Canadian Mounties. There’s a well-known leprechaun and a rabbit, at least two bumblebees and a werewolf, who in retirement has joined monkeys and porcupines and chocolatey brown elephants. There were, at one time, singing pieces of corn.

The sketched multitude behind the selling of sweetened grains is the life’s work of Duluth’s Robb Berry, who collects cereal boxes the way some people might dream of collecting the works of Matisse or Picasso.

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