Uncle Sam is one tough old avatar. Cartoonists and designers ... But it's 2021—is it time for something new? I mean, we've been looking at the same skinny old white guy for over a century.

Over the next few decades, as the country outgrew this rambunctious youngster, he was slowly edged out by the figure we now know as Uncle Sam ... War I and II, Sam was a tough-love military ...