Those of you who are interested in the physiological details of cute little cartoon characters might want a look at Betty Boop’s skull.
The skeletons of other famous cartoon characters can be found here. I must confess I’m disappointed not to see Popeye, Bugs Bunny or Yosemite Sam, but I’ll take what I can get.
And I thought I was weird …
The PowerPuff Girl skeleton is really freaky.
Remionds me of Graig Swanson’s cartoons, especially “Anatomy of a Clown” (Available as a T-shirt). See this site:
The Peanuts ones don’t look all that freakish to me. I wonder why he felt the need to do so many; one or two examples from any one cartoon “family” (per species, that is) would serve just as well. All three Powerpuff Girls also don’t look much different from one another.
Interesting site, but I would not have given the shmoo any bones at all.
That is rather a skeleton of a website.
He really needs to flesh it out more.
Interesting, however.
I thought it was canon that the Shmoo has no bones (and has a different flavor depending on how it is prepared.).
Yes, shmoos are boneless.
It disturbs me that Dexter has no elbows.
I wanna see Popeye and Krazy Kat and Little Nemo and Brenda Starr and Andy Capp and certainly The Family Circus . . .
Repectively-
a skeletal analysis reveals that he is not Homo Sapiens Sapiens, but a goon/human hybrid.
Extensive cranial damage due to Ignatz’s many love tokens.
Hydrocephalic- the pressure on the brain causing very realistic dreams
Idunno
Systemic damage caused by poor diet and heavy drinking. Evidence of many injuries due to soccer hooliganism.
The Family Circus have no bones, are not human, and are not native to this dimension. They are unspeakable, eldritch entities who have taken on human form for their incomprehensible and terrifying ends. The dogs too.
It’s worth pointing out that the drawing of Marvin the Martian’s skeleton is purely speculative; to my knowledge we never saw him take off his helmet?
The others, of course, possess ironclad scientific rigor.
By the way, Bill Watterson once drew a skeletal drawing of Calvin in a strip (I think he had developed X-ray vision or something); I’ll see if I still have the book and can put up a scan.
There was a piece in National Lampoon back in the 1970s that did, not x-rays, but photorealistic drawings of comic characters. The one of Popeye was eerie, and the caption explained his weird head bulges and oversized forearms (and calves) as due to an accident in a decompression chamber.
Actually, even eerierr is the photo of the guy Popeye was in all probability based on that’s reproduced in Bud Sagendorf’s book Popeye: The First Fifty Years. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0894800655/sr=1-2/qid=1156798429/ref=sr_1_2/002-1477604-6592819?ie=UTF8&s=books
He was an old ex-sailor who swept up in a greasy spoon who E. C. Segar knew. The guy really did have a reputation for being tough, and beating up guys younger than himself. And he does look like Segar’s first drawings of Popeye (which didn’t have as pronounced a chin.)
Let’s see him do Plastic Man…
exoskeleton, not unlike a crab.
:smack: For some reason, I read Pac man.
Betty Boop has no lower jaw.
THAT’s disturbing.
Except the bird characters do not have bird skeletons, they appear to have human skeletons. I don’t think their anthropomorphism should stretch that far.
Compare this excerpt from “A MAD Guide to The Anatomy of The Human Body Based on the Comics,” MAD #236 (Feb 1983).
Here are the cartoons from Perspicuity:
http://content.perspicuity.com/?q=node/205
http://content.perspicuity.com/?q=node/239
Picture (not very good) of Frank “Rocky” Fiegel, the model for Popeye:
