Portrait of a Cartoon as a Real Man

No wonder they call him a blockhead.

This is a pretty neat gallery of what cartoon characters would look like if they were real people. As we can see with the example to the left, some of it is nightmare fuel, and it is indeed easy to see why Charlie Brown is the most depressing kid in the world. If someone like that lived on my block, I'd probably have picked on him too, just as soon as I stopped screaming.

Some of these really are the ugliest things in the world -- particularly Popeye, who has a face that even Olive Oyl, the ugliest woman in history, wouldn't love.

But some of them are indeed interesting. At the very least, they will replace the whale in your nightmares.