This cartoon is a reaction to the huge number of youthifications that have gone on in the cartoon/comic world: Muppet Babies, Warner Brothers’ Tiny Toons, Disney Babies, Scooby Doo Kids, ad nauseam. I asked myself: what would be the most absurd group to youthify? The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!
I took the images right from an Albrecht Dürer woodcut (see references. I switched Famine and Death (I mean Famine should be the skinny one!). This also gave me the opportunity to give Death a pail-horse. I gave War a "Drawn & Quartered" tee-shirt, thinking I was so clever - come to find out there is a comic journal by the name Drawn & Quarterly. Sigh.