La Linea (“The Line”) is an Italian animated series created by the Italian cartoonist Osvaldo Cavandoli.  The series consists of 90 episodes, which were originally broadcast on the Italian channel RAI between 1971 and 1986. All episodes were short subjects, ranging from 2:28 to 6:37 in runtime.

The cartoon features a man (known as “Mr. Linea”) drawn as a single outline around his silhouette, walking on an infinite line of which he is a part. The character encounters obstacles and often turns to the cartoonist, represented as a live-action hand holding a white grease pencil, to draw him a solution, with various degrees of success

I still remember the simple but fabulous line drawings from the broadcasting on Dutch television in the early 70’s.

Today the so called (minimalistic) line-art or line-drawing is widespread.
Line art or line drawing is any image that consists of distinct straight or curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue(color) to represent two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects. Line art can use lines of different colors, although line art is usually monochromatic. Line art emphasizes form and outline, over color, shading, and texture. However, areas of solid pigment and dots can also be used in addition to lines. The lines in a piece of line art may be all of a constant width (as in some pencil drawings), of several (few) constant widths (as in technical illustrations), or of freely varying widths (as in brush work or engraving)

Of course I had to try and make a few line drawings,which ,in a way,also remembers me to Sumi-e,the Japanese minimalistic ink-drawings where one also tries to capture essence and movement in a few strokes or lines.