#comedy the clown

[feline-gal]

Cirque Du Sol-Egg Troupe

(Copying description from DeviantArt..)

The IDW Sonic Comics – AKA Archie 2.0 – fucking suck, so I'm making up my own version in my head, with blackjack and hookers.. also clowns.

Starline's a perma-simp, as nature intended even if Flynn-flam didn't. He knows his fucking place underneath Eggman's boot and loves every minute of it - partially because Eggman isn't being written to be as stupid as physically possible for a guy with 300 IQ points. Doesn't get any overpowered gadgets that make other characters go “Ermahgerd! Dat's so amazingly cool! Ur so cool Starline!”.. I mean I guess the hypno-glove could do that..

Made Surge & Kit into clowns because they're a fucking joke. And renamed them to Comedy and Tragedy. They both basically volunteered for cyborgification in order to avoid dealing with their own mental problems.

Comedy's a chaotic clown lady with electrokinesis and complimentary ultra high-voltage joy buzzers implanted in her hands and feet for lethal handshakes and short bursts of lightning speed – she's not beating Sonic in a race any time soon. None of that “I'm sooo much fasterer than u!” Bullshit

Tragedy's a sad clown boy with hydrokinesis and a set of cyber eyes modded with super soaker functionality, always carries a pair of seltzer bottles around on the sides of his water tank backpack.

Together, they'll force you to laugh until you cry.

[bl00dfroma-fairy]

[anna-scribbles]

does anyone have like a pet ml episode that is not one of the huge banger plot-heavy ones but just feels like your special episode you’re so fond of. i think mine is psychomedian

[artsfinalgirl]

real footage of me disassociating from any social event and interaction and being creepily weird by myself

[justajollyclown]

[edwardcreel]

Is that a —

[hikarisbeam]

괴물 / Beyond Evil BTS

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

an accurate representation of an average AO3 writer looking at their laptop screen in which they give their Blorbo the worst torture and trauma known to mankind:

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[enlightenedrobot]

Other Characters you can legally use for your Mickey Mouse project

Mickey Mouse is in the public domain, as is Minnie Mouse and Peg-leg Pete. There's some caveats to that, and I talk about that more in this other post, but for now, let's talk about other characters who you can also use to fill out the cast.

These characters should all be in the public domain, though some characters still have treademarks. I'll get into how to use them safely as we go. Anyways, let's start.

Other Disney Characters

Disney obvciously doesn't advertise this, but there's actually quite a few Disney originals who've actually been in the public domain for a while.

The Mad Doctor never had it's copyright renewed, and so it's very technically the first Mickey Mouse cartoon to enter the public domain. Keep in mind, the version of Pluto featured in the short isn't in the domain just yet, but the Doctor himself is free to use.

What's funny is that Disney would later use a version of Doctor for Epic Mickey. Obviously don't use that version of the character.

Aside from the Mad Doctor, we also have Oswald and Ortensia

Yeah, as it turns out, Oswald's been in the public domain for quite a while, but he's still trademarked by Disney. Easy recommendation... use the original "fat" design of the character and have him go by Lucky.

But before Oswald, we have the Alice Comedies

Everything about the Alice Comedies is Public Domain for a long time, and the Disney corporation very rarely acknowlege these characters existence. Which is a shame because These shorts were some of the first shorts Walt ever produced, and they have the unique gimmick of featuring a live action girl in an animated world.

Everybody already knows about Oswald, but nobody talks about Oswald and Mickey's older brother from these shorts, Julius the Cat

Like... yeah no, it didn't all start with a mouse. Or a rabbit. It started with a cat.

Foxy and Milton Mouse

Both Foxy (top) and Milton (bottom, pictured with his girlfriend Rita Mouse) were characters created by Warner Brothers and Van Beuren respectively to cash in on Mickey's success, and both characters are also in the public domain.

In fact, all Van Beuren cartoons are apparently in the public domain, and I encourage you to find their cartoons and use them as you please.

Fleischer Characters

Betty Boop is probably in the Public Domain, but there's a few caveats with this. From what I can tell, the name Betty Boop is trademarked, but the character herself isn't. Most of the old Betty Cartoons are free to use, but newer incarnations, including the versions used in 1985's The Romance of Betty Boop and 1989's The Betty Boop Movie Mystery are still very much under copyright.

To avoid any legal trouble, I have two big recommendations. Although everybody remembers Betty as having Black hair, in one of the few early instances of Betty being shown in color, she's actually depicted as Redhead.

This is Betty Boop in 1934's Poor Cinderella, and her hair color is pretty clearly red.

The other option is to just make her black.

Though there's been some debate as to whether Betty Boop was intentionally modeled after Esther Lee Jones or not, there's still no denying the influence of Jazz on the character. Betty Boop is a Jazz singer and is often depicted dancing to Cab Calloway. Hell, the Betty Boop musical features Jasmine Amy Rogers as the titular character.

Betty Boop aside, there's an entire world of defunct Betty Boop characters who are definately public domain, including Bimbo and Koko the Clown.

Next year, Popeye's also gonna enter the Domain. So keep an eye out for him too.

Anyways, these are my picks, but obviously this list isn't meant to be comprehensive. There's a ton of old cartoon characters out there who can be freely reinterpreted into newer works. Feel free to add your own favorite public domain cartoon to the list.

[feline-gal]

Meet the Clowns

(Copying description from DeviantArt..)

Sonic and Tails face their fears - or maybe gain a new one - one dark and stormy night.

Tails hears a crackle from behind him and has to avoid getting his head exploded by a cackling clown.

Meanwhile, Sonic finds the sobbing child he was trying to save from drowning actually intends to drag him down to a watery grave.

Coming to an imaginary comic shop nowhere near you never.

[bl00dfroma-fairy]

[pirate-captain-froggy]

tumblr gets to see them too. clownfrin and jester loop :]

[artsfinalgirl]

how I watch Art the Clown murder people in Terrifier 3 aka my comfort Christmas movie

[luffypeach]

PLEASE I LAUGHED SO HARD AT CROCO AND MIHAWK'S FACES THEY ARE DONE WITH BUGGY ABSOLUTELY DONE

[fandomnerd9602]

Sienna is confronted by Y/N-Juice, a Beetlejuice variant…

Y/N: (gruff voice) hey there

Sienna: I’ve dealt with clowns before

Y/N: baby I’m here to help you. That nasty clown escaped the afterlife and I’m here to take him back

Art the Clown appears and Y/N-Juice smashes him with a summoned hammer…

Y/N-Juice turns to Sienna…

Y/N: so…uhh…you free Thursday? I’m free then after this whole piece with Vanity Fair. They think I look like Justin Bieber