I'm not sure where I found it, but there's something called the Pu Pu Doll (I think it's from one of the Japanese sites). Blobby but humanoid. I used them in my Candide series.

http://www.joey-aristophanes.com/candide.html : second section, bottom row, on the left.

docandraider.com -- the collected cartoons of Doc and Raider