One of Tim Burton’s most famous characters, Edward Scissorhands, is way older than you think. “It was an idea from when I was a teenager,” says the director of Beetlejuice and the upcoming 3-D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. “It had been in my mind for a long time.” Ditto Jack Skellington, the leading ghoul in The Nightmare Before Christmas: “That was just a doodle I kept drawing over and over and over for no apparent reason.” Those and other doodles (like the self-inflating cephalopod from 1994, below) are on display at the Museum of Modern Art through April. The show includes drawings a young Burton did for the local football team and for a litter-prevention campaign in his hometown of Burbank, California.Read more at www.wired.com