Comments on: Come one, come all! Circus poster art

Come one, come all! Circus poster art

tracicle — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:49:19 -0800

The Czar of Bizarre Johnny Meah grew up with the circus, clowning and making circus banners. His artwork is now collected as "Americana" and is on display on his site.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:03:52 -0800

I love these...here are some more by him, Fred Johnson, Al Renton, Snap Wyatt, and more. : >

By: taz

taz — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 04:21:26 -0800

tracicle! Good to see you, girl! This was great fun. Very amusing to see how very, very conservative the "illustrated lady" (on this page) is by today's standards. I enlarged this a bit to try to make out what the specific tattoos were: she has trailing vine roses over her breasts, a butterfly just under her right shoulder, a chain link bracelet on her right wrist and and a spider's web on her right elbow area. On the left arm she has what I think is probably a heart-with-banner on her biceps, something I can't make out on her lower arm, and two more bracelets. There is something I can't figure out (best guess: winged dragon) above her belly, what is probably another butterfly on her left hip, a scary lizard on her left thigh, and what might be a leaping lion on her lower leg. On her right thigh is an abstract circular design. Why did I write all this? I just don't know. I started out to simply mention how these designs would be seen as terribly prosaic and not very daring today, and just got carried away with the summary... Anyway, I had fun as you can obviously see.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:09:48 -0800

I wonder if that's really his voice on the site. It sounds disturbingly like the narrator in King's Quest V. I can still hear him saying "Graham tosses the moldy cheese into the machine's bubbling liquid". Great link - gorgeous banners.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:16:01 -0800

From taz's link - the illustrated lady looks exactly like Joni Mitchell.