Cartoon Death Museum: A Wiki Proposal

Artist Michael Paulus has imagined what Tweety Bird, Charlie Brown, and the Pokemon gang might look like a few months after their burial — or maybe an hour after an acid bath. Over on the right is Hello Kitty once the feline Grim Reaper is completely done with her (the splotchiness on the left image is the result of an overlay that reveals part of what's underneath).

Paulus writes:

"Animation was the format of choice for children's television in the 1960s, a decade in which children's programming became almost entirely animated. Growing up in that period, I tended to take for granted the distortions and strange bodies of these entities. I decided to take a select few of these popular characters and render their skeletal systems as I imagine they might resemble if one truly had eye sockets half the size of its head, or fingerless hands, or feet comprising 60% of its body mass."

Fantastic, but why stop there? I'm seeing an open-source project here. There must be artists who can render classical anatomical charts à la Charles Clayman's "The Human Body"  — only in this case we'd see layer-by-layer dissections of the Pink Panther and a Powerpuff Girl. And I imagine that some sculptors would love to do Mr. Incredible the way Bodyworlds' Günther von Hagen would do Mr. Incredible. And wouldn't it be fun to see Snoopy sliced in half and suspended in formaldehyde, Damien Hirst-style? Other Cartoon Death Art might include medical oddities and curiosities modeled after those on display at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum. I'd say, a conjoined Fritz the Cat (Fritz & Franz?), and a Thalidomide version of Fred Flintstone. For starters.

We could have a whole Cartoon Death Museum, a.k.a. the WikiMorgue. I wonder if the NEA would give us a grant.

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wat a cool hellokitty piccy

Haha, cool pic ;)