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August 31, 2006

10:41 AM

Anders J. Svensson
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Exhuming the cartoon boneyard

A few years back, artist Michael Paulus did a series of 22 illustrations guessing at the skeletal structures of cartoon characters. Hyungkoo Lee has taken that idea a hundred steps further by constructing actual skeletons made of resin, aluminum sticks, stainless steel wires, springs, and oil paint. No doubt each of these cartoons died of natural causes. Like anvils.

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Wow. Amazing work. I'm very impressed, but having just had a child I'm not sure I could own his artwork. It's like the time my uncle pointed to a dear head on his back shed and told me "Yep, I got Rudolph."

And then I said …
John Lewis
  • Friday September 1, 2006 3:28 PM
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