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Mr. Clown Thinks You’re Dynamite © 2012 City of Troy Productions
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Killing Cupid
Mr. Clown has had one bad relationship after the other. He meets a nice girl. He dates her. Everything is going so well. Then something ruins the relationship. Either the girl has bad manners, etiquette, or is just a floozy. And that just won’t do. So Mr. Clown has decided that he is done with love for a little bit. He has decided that he’s going to take his grievance to the source and kill that little creepy Cupid.
Mr. Clown: Killing Cupid © 2012 City of Troy Productions
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Don’t Be A Bloodsucker
Recently Count Dracula has moved to the tiny town of Green River. And it has come to Mr. Clown’s attention that several little children have been drained of every drop of blood and died. And, these were not bad children—they were good children. That is not OK. You can’t just go around and sucking people’s blood, no matter if they think vampires are awesome thanks to the “Dusk” series of books and movies where vampires sparkle and shine like diamonds in the sunlight. Real vampires have started taking advantage of the children’s stupid and misguided love of vampires resulting from “Dusk” and have been draining them clean. So, Mr. Clown has gotten a wooden stake and is going to show Dracula that it’s not OK to prey on good little children in his town.
Mr. Clown: Don’t Be A Bloodsucker © 2012 City of Troy Productions
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Don’t Huff Glue
Every day after school, Joey Garber and his friends Sherman, Dorrie, T’Shon, and Elliott, hang out to watch television or play video games until Joey’s mother gets home from work at 5:00pm. Joey’s past-time is making model planes and cars, so he has a wide variety of glues and cements. Today, Sherman has convinced them that they should sniff or huff some glue. Joey is not sure about this. He has heard from his mother, father, teachers, and the local nightly news that huffing can be very dangerous and sometimes even deadly! Mr. Clown has been paying close attention to the unsupervised hijinks that go on at Joey’s every afternoon. Most afternoons he ends up moving along, going to another house to observe what other children are doing. However, today he has found that nothing good is happening in the Garber house. So, Mr. Clown has decided he is going to show the children the dangers that can result in huffing glue.
Mr. Clown: Don’t Huff Glue © 2012 City of Troy Productions
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Sharing is a very important skill for children to learn. It teaches children about compromise. It helps children make friends and play cooperatively. They can learn that by giving a favorite toy or object to others how to be giving and kind. It helps them socialize with their peers and learn to not think only of themselves. Ellie Waters often has play-dates with her school mates. Ellie is very good about sharing. Today she has a play-date with Gabby Hamilton. Gabby is not good about sharing. In fact, Gabby refuses to share. For Gabby it’s always, “Me, me, me.” No matter how many times Ellie says it’s her turn to play with the Darbie Doll, Gabby refuses to hand it over. Gabby is just so stingy. And, this upsets Ellie very much. Ellie loves Darbie and has been very fair about sharing her most prized toy with Gabby. But, Gabby just doesn’t care. Mr. Clown has been observing Gabby’s play patterns and behavior for a very long time. And, today, he has realized that Gabby is just never going to learn how to share—she just doesn’t want to. So, he’s decided to hammer his point home.
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Don’t Be A Pottymouth
The halls of Green River Elementary are often filled with loud noises and rambunctious talking as the little children go from class to class, stopping at their lockers to switch books between classes. However, one thing that shouldn’t be among that noise and talking is foul vulgar language. When the little children use bad language, they make themselves sound poorly educated and disrespectful toward themselves and others. Bad words are meant for adults—and only in very special situations. However, Rich Thomason thinks it’s funny and makes him “cool” to use vulgar language. For weeks now Rich has been peppering his sentences with foul language, bombarding his classmates Omar and Fran with the bad words that flow forth so easily. Everyone has warned Rich, telling him that no one thinks it makes him cool or funny. But, Rich has his own ideas about bad language. And he keeps flapping his pottymouth constantly—finally bringing him to the attention of Mr. Clown. While Rich’s mom has attempted to use soap to wash his mouth out, Mr. Clown has a much better idea of how to handle the situation. After all, without a tongue, Rich can’t very well keep the ongoing foul flow from his pottymouth… can he?
Mr. Clown: Don’t Be A Pottymouth © 2011 City of Troy Productions
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Mr. Clown: Don’t Play With Fire
Forrest Forbes is a very naughty little boy. Over the past year, he has become fascinated by fire. He has taken to stealing lighters and matches from friends and family members so that he can start fires. It started innocently enough, with him lighting candles and watching them burn until they are nothing but a pool of melted wax. However, Forrest has become less and less satisfied with candles, or throwing kindling into the family’s fire place. In fact, he has taken to burning things. As his desire has grown, and the need for bigger more blazing fires has become known to him, Forrest has taken to stealing toys and possessions from other children in the neighborhood and burning them in his front yard while his parents are at work. Mr. Clown has become aware of this deadly and dangerous behavior. And, Mr. Clown knows that an unhealthy fixation with fire can lead to more serious crimes like arson and murder. So, today, Mr. Clown has decided that only he can prevent Forrest’s fires…
Mr. Clown: Don’t Play With Fire © 2011 City of Troy Productions
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Mr. Clown: Don’t Commit Vandalism
Green River is a quiet little suburban community, located nearly thirty miles away from the sprawling city. Many parents move their families to it’s tranquil streets, longing for a kinder simpler life among lush manicured lawns and neatly painted fences and homes. Unfortunately, not all of the children appreciate what Green River has to offer. Some of them even miss the rough and tumble juvenile delinquency of the city and attempt to bring those undesirable values to Green River. One such child is Patty Pepperton. Patty’s parents work very long hours in the city to assure that Patty and her little brother Randy have a roof over their heads, food to eat, and adequate health and dental care. While Randy rushes home to do homework and do his chores, Patty likes to swipe cans of spray paint from the garage. Then she takes to the streets, defacing walls throughout Green River. Mr. Clown has watched Patty’s crime spree for several weeks now, even taking a moment or two to mention this to Mr. and Mrs. Pepperton. However, it does not look as though the Pepperton’s punishment has been very effective. In fact, today, Patty has decided to not only commit vandalism—spraying graffiti all over the wall of an apartment building, but she has included a very personal insult directed at Mr. Clown. Mr. Clown is not amused. And, he is going to teach Patty a very sharp lesson today…
Mr. Clown: Don’t Commit Vandalism © 2011 City of Troy Productions
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Since I’ve been a little kid I’ve always loved Halloween. Some of that is due to Halloween being my mom’s favorite holiday. She was one of those moms who went over the top with decorations every Halloween. Our living room looked like a mini-Haunted House attraction every year for a healthy chunk of my childhood. I still feel nostalgic for home whenever I see those blinking skeleton string lights in the store or that fake spider web that takes forever to get down the first day of November.
My personal favorite part was not so much the candy, although I enjoyed that a lot. I remember my love affair with Dots (you know those lovely rainbow hued gumdrops from the Tootsie Roll company) beginning because of those little boxes of them I invariably got every Halloween. I was an adult before I realized you could buy of box of Dots. No, my favorite thing about Halloween was costumes. I started in September each year right after school started planning who I was going to be. While that’s not a very long time now, when I was a child a single month felt like forever.
The first Halloween I remember dressing up was when I was three or four. My friend Jenny and I went as Raggedy Ann and Andy. Our moms conspired to make our costumes (yes, they made them) and it was all very ridiculously cute. I still look at that picture today and smile. And, yes that picture is floating around on the internet.
We came from the 70's!
Ah, there it is!
I remember being Chewbacca, Gene Simmons of KISS (I wore that to the Kindergarten Halloween party in full make-up, Mom made that costume too), He-Man, Jason Voorhees, an Ewok, and the Purple Pieman (of Strawberry Shortcake). I remember having a Darth Vader costume (one of those awesome Ruby’s costumes), but don’t ever remember actually wearing it for Halloween. I might have, and just not remember that. It’s been a very long time after all. I do remember being very peeved as a child that I never got to be Princess Leia for Halloween. As an adult I finally made that come true. And yes, there are pictures of that, but no, those are not going up on the internet. I have some dignity. Somewhere.
As I got older and my desire to dress in costume decreased (you know how teenagers are), my love of scary movies was born and Halloween became even more of a holiday favorite because all of the local UHF channels (ah, the days before cable) would show all sorts of great horror movies. I first watched such slasher classics such “Terror Train” and “New Year’s Evil” (well, classic to me anyway) on TV channels with numbers like 21 and 29, often through snowy screens, running out to adjust the aerial antenna during commercial breaks–knowing that often after ten p.m. if the sky was clear I would get a better signal if I turned the antenna just the right direction. When we finally got cable, I remember USA Up-All-Nite showing awful but fun horror movies year round and feeling like life couldn’t get much better. And to make it more awesome, USA only edited out the language and the nudity, they still showed the gore. The often overlooked and deeply flawed slasher classic “Girl’s Nite Out” was my favorite Up-All-Nite discovery.
You betta be careful trick or treating!
That love of horror movies (I still have it to this day) is obviously a pretty big inspiration on Mr. Clown. He’s right out of a horror movie. One of the very first Mr. Clown comics I drew was “Be Careful Trick-Or-Treating.” That image of kids in costumes with Mr. Clown answering the door was very vivid early one. It’s how most Mr. Clown comics are born, I get an image of Mr. Clown lurking under a bed, or a kid opening the door to the basement and Mr. Clown hiding in the darkness below. Some people have mentioned that Stephen King’s It seems like it was a big inspiration, but it really was not as much as you would think. For me it was always the awful images of a clown doing something awful. The first Mr. Clown had Mr. Clown holding a dead puppy, standing beside an oblivious Mom telling her kid, “It’s all right little girl! Mr. Clown just wants to play! And cut off your head!” When I find that in the pile of sketches and drawings (which I’m going through to scan and file as an ongoing de-cluttering project) I will scan it and share it. Early Mr. Clown drawings show the old boy looked a little different in the beginning. Giant grin and pointy hat, anyone?
That bad bad Babysitter Killer strikes every Halloween!
So, hopefully everyone has a Happy Halloween and eats lots of candy and for the adults: have lots of adult beverages, and gets to be whoever they want to be.
peace and love and empathy,
p.
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