Why have cartoons got so spikey?

One of the things I've noticed over the last decade or so is how angular and spikey cartoon characters have become, why do people have to have noses that look like the prow of a yatch? Chins that could be used as pickaxes and big eyes with spikey eyelashes? I wouldn't want cartoons to be all soft and rounded like early Disney, but just more normal looking. I find them really freaky to look at and it puts me off.

  • One of the things I've noticed over the last decade or so is how angular and spikey cartoon characters have become,

    This goes back way before that - back in the 90s I recall the likes of Dexters Laboratory having this stye - it was just the style of the time.

    I find them really freaky to look at and it puts me off.

    I recall my grandparents incredulity at the Scooby Doo cartoons I used to watch as a child - they were all too wacky and unlike the cartoons of their childhood. I guess it is a style you grow up associating with cartoon entertainment and as you age it gets harder to appreciate the style of the new generations.

    As my great nephew said to me - "you just got old!".