James Cauty created a work entitled Splatter that features the cartoons from your childhood (or from mine at least). "Pop artist James Cauty's work Splatter repurposes classic Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera cartoons and gives them a Sin City-style blood spatter makeover, "presenting the viewer with unrelenting acts of bloody, cartoon violence, which, in cartoon law, ultimately cannot cause fatal injury." I don't know about yall...but these cartoon pics are kinda disturbing...especially the Tom and Jerry one...that smile is sinister psycho...lol.
The idea came from Cauty's 15-year-old son who suggested his dad show the violence that cartoons leave out. Cauty says: "People have been saying since the ‘60s that cartoons should show the consequences of violence, or kids will get the wrong idea,"
"Its very difficult to shock kids these days - you have cartoon characters being shot in the head and walking off cliffs, so we have decided to replace them with something more realistic."
Take this Itchy & Scratchy skit for example...
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