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The Steeplechase Face was the mascot of the historic Steeplechase Park, the first [1] of three amusement parks in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. [2] It remains a nostalgic symbol of Coney Island and of amusement areas influenced by it. [ 3 ]
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a 1906 short silent animated cartoon directed by James Stuart Blackton and generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film recorded on standard picture film. [1] [2]
Trollface or Troll Face is a rage comic meme image of a character donning a mischievous smile, used to symbolise internet trolls and trolling. It is one of the oldest and most widely known rage comic faces.
The story of the Harlequinade revolves around a comic incident in the lives of its five main characters: Harlequin, who loves Columbine; Columbine's greedy and foolish father Pantaloon (evolved from the character Pantalone), who tries to separate the lovers in league with the mischievous Clown; and the servant, Pierrot, usually involving ...
The poem was then seen as a story in the 1910s, again, with the performer called 'Grimaldi', [48] and again from the 1930s, [49] featuring a clown called 'Grock', suggested as being the Swiss clown Charles Adrien Wettach. The 1987 graphic novel Watchmen includes the character of Rorschach telling the story and naming the clown as Pagliacci. [50]
Frumpy the Clown is a comic-strip written and illustrated by Judd Winick and appeared from 1996 to 1998. [1] Although it only ran for two years and appeared only in 30 newspapers (the largest being the Chicago Sun-Times), it had a fair sized fan base. The strip began when Brad Bragg, a 10-year-old kid, brought back a clown to live with his ...
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The Clown Egg Register is an archive of painted ceramic and hen's eggs that serve as a record of individual clowns' personal make-up designs. [5] The clown egg tradition began in 1946, when Stan Bult, a chemist, and founder of Clowns International, took to drawing the faces of club members and famous clowns onto chicken eggs. [6]