Comments on: Skeletal systems of cartoon characters

Skeletal systems of cartoon characters

40 Watt — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:42:52 -0800

Skeletal systems of cartoon characters

(All hail Waxy.org)

By: deafmute

deafmute — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:47:25 -0800

Wow, incredibly creepy and grotesque. Great link.

By: GleepGlop

GleepGlop — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:49:52 -0800

ok fiiiiine, ill have to go and bookmark this waxy.org. sigh.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:49:57 -0800

Holy crap, that Buttercup skeleton is nightmare material! I am getting no sleep tonight.

By: hughbot

hughbot — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:51:57 -0800

He missed a golden opportunity by not calling these skeletoons.

By: painquale

painquale — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:55:18 -0800

This reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes strip that has Calvin as a walking skeleton. Watterson mentioned that Calvin's proportions make for a bizarre skeleton. I love Buttercup's teeth.

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 20:58:20 -0800

This is very, very good. And Shmoo to boot!

By: GleepGlop

GleepGlop — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:02:18 -0800

oh yeah, this reminds me of dave cooper's drawing of the skeleton of one of the characters in dan and larry. i dont remember which one it was... it was either dan or larry.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:03:36 -0800

Words cannot begin to describe how awesome and creepy this is. The vestigial arms of the Shmoo are particularly disturbing. (painquale, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the page.)

By: interrobang

interrobang — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:10:25 -0800

[This is brilliant.]

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:18:11 -0800

[This is good.]

By: zoogleplex

zoogleplex — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:20:27 -0800

MAD Magazine did this many years ago, using characters that were popular back then. Charlie Brown, Steve Canyon, Popeye, Nancy & Sluggo and Barney Google were some of the memorable ones for me. It's good to see an update with modern stuff! Um, but I don't think the Shmoo ever had a skeleton. Otherwise he couldn't flow under doors, etc.

By: bryce

bryce — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:24:04 -0800

I remember Mad Magazine doing this at least 20 years ago. And zoogleplex saying the same thing about 10 minutes ago.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:32:04 -0800

The Mad Magazine one gave me nightmares as this one will. I seem to remember their Popeye was kind of frightening. For this one, I think its buttercup - I never thought of the implication of those eyes which now seem monstrous.

By: dougunderscorenelso

dougunderscorenelso — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:33:28 -0800

oh ho ho ho. i like this.

By: kamylyon

kamylyon — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:44:04 -0800

oh this is good, iluvit!

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:49:58 -0800

This is awesome! Buttercup is real horrorshow.

By: reflection

reflection — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 21:50:44 -0800

ok fiiiiine, ill have to go and bookmark this waxy.org. sigh. Try Bloglines... Here is his RSS feed.

By: Mars Saxman

Mars Saxman — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:03:47 -0800

Ah, what fun - though the references are a bit modern for me; what is "Shmoo" anyway? I don't see the "horror" aspect - the skeleton diagrams just look like late 18th century medical illustrations.

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:06:33 -0800

Nifty, yet really damned scary.

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:12:12 -0800

Mars Saxman, meet The Shmoo.

By: kamylyon

kamylyon — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:18:47 -0800

/oldfilter I can remember Shmoo stuff at my grandmother's house. We could look, but not touch! I wonder if she still has any of that stuff?

By: phyle

phyle — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:52:00 -0800

Yeh buttercup looks so evil. If I was being really picky I would say the birds should have bird skeletons- he gave them all human bone structures...

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:24:47 -0800

Funny how the most post-modern cartoon has by far the scariest underpinnings...

By: rushmc

rushmc — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:29:44 -0800

Excellent!

By: spinifex23

spinifex23 — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:30:04 -0800

This is bizarre and creepy. I now have new computer wallpaper. (Buttercup is, by far, my favorite.) Thanks for the link!

By: edgeways

edgeways — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:34:22 -0800

"If I was being really picky I would say the birds should have bird skeletons- he gave them all human bone structures..." Not exactly human... unless I've missed out on recent genetic reconfigs. Look at it this way, those "birds" don't even have wings in the fleshed-out prints, they look/act like human (as much as any cartoon is human), so it follows the skels are human-iod as well n'est pas?

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:45:13 -0800

Glad to know my nightmares are accurate.

By: euphorb

euphorb — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 00:47:40 -0800

That background on the Schmoo is... strange.

By: 235w103

235w103 — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 01:07:38 -0800

Holy crap, I think that Buttercup skeleton is going to eat my face tonight.

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 02:51:53 -0800

[this is beyond cool] thanks, 40 watt. I have to join in the "buttercup chorus"; it's creepy, but totally on the mark- she needs huge sockets to accomodate those huge orbs. and the teeth! freaky. reminds me of prosimian crania.

By: phrontist

phrontist — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 06:36:07 -0800

Oh, man. I burst out laughing when I read this link title, and man, it's everything I thought it would be. Now, let's take this a step further and analyze what ailments various cartoon characters would face in old age... Reminds me of the fantastically pendantic insultingly stupid move physics.

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 07:10:35 -0800

I wonder what Pac-Man's skeleton would look like... pretty round, I guess. With a highly developed jaw.

By: spaghetti

spaghetti — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 07:36:17 -0800

I love this stuff...I've been trying to come up with a way to standardize clay puppets (short of latex foam, casting, etc.) and this just gave me a million ideas. See you guys in a month...

By: digifox

digifox — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:58:04 -0800

I {love} this. (What gorgeous illustrations. Hey, furries. Notice how no one is grossed out about anthro art here? Hmmm...)

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:05:09 -0800

I saw the link this morning, didn't have time to check it out, now the site's having trouble displaying images <sigh>

By: zoogleplex

zoogleplex — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:22:15 -0800

"I can remember Shmoo stuff at my grandmother's house. We could look, but not touch! I wonder if she still has any of that stuff?" If she does, kamylyon, it's probably worth a massive crapload of money. You should introduce her to eBay...

By: caution live frogs

caution live frogs — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:38:32 -0800

appears to be 404'd. bandwidth, or just gone missing? entire site returns 404.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:28:06 -0800

The buttercup drawing just emphasizes why the powerpuff girls make such great feminist icons: there's no body to sexualize. They're all brains and fists.

By: skallas

skallas — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:13:40 -0800

I put a small mirror of most of the images up at nerdfilter here. You can also try the coral cache by adding .nyud.net:8090 to the URL , but you have to do this to every URL (including the images). Actually, I doubt that works anymore, now the cache gives me the custom 404 page. (Am I the only person who think that looks a little too much like flipping the bird?) Sigh. Even then it was a pain to get them. Originally they are were 200+k images because there were set at 12 jpeg compression. Yeah, I had a boring day, now I got to bore you with the details.

By: Ark_Light

Ark_Light — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:28:37 -0800

Extremely odd, yet interestingly captivating!