#circuses

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Rob Krier, Urban Space, Circuses

[sacrifesse]

┣▇▇▇═─ CiRCUS iD PACK 〰️

🎪 ︵︵ REQUESTED BY 🌈🥁 ANON ᶻ 𝗓

🎪 ︵︵ TAGGiNG @id-pack-archive ᶻ 𝗓

✙ ︵︵ SYSTEM NAMES : the clowns , the clown collective , the jesters , the jester system/collective/etc. , the circus collective , the circus of clowns , the acrobats , the acrobat system/collective/etc. , the carnival collective , the ringleaders , the ringleader system/collective/etc. , the ringmasters , the ringmaster system/collective/etc. , the magicians , the magician system/collective/etc.

✙ ︵︵ NAMES : aerial , harley , quinn , jinx , nikolai , acro , asher , aurelia , barnum , bailey , bruno , calliope , circe , cirque , clarabell , clara , belle , emmett , fantasia , leo¹ , lucille , max , maximus , penny , petunia , philip , pierre , pippa , soleil , star² , starla , victor , vincent

¹ names that certain alters of the darling stars use

² names we go by as a collective

✙ ︵︵ PRONOUNS : cir circus , clown clowns , jester jesters , acrobat acrobats , carnival carnivals , ringleader ringleaders , ringmaster ringmaster , magician magicians , performer performers , juggle juggles , 🎪 🎪s , 🥁 🥁s , 🤡 🤡s , 🎡 🎡s , 🎠 🎠s , 🃏 🃏s

✙ ︵︵ USERNAMES : cirqueduclown , bloodyjester , clowncorpses , clownscarnage , marvelousmagician , jugglingacrobat , jugglingperformer , regalringmaster

✙ ︵︵ TiTLES : the clown , the jester , the acrobat , the ringleader , the ringmaster , the magician , prn whose shows gather an audience of many , prn who riles up a crowd with ease , the one of extravagant costumes (in red and gold)

✙ ︵︵ LABELS : circus attraction , disabled clown , clown gaybian , assigned clown at birth , mime lesbian

✙ ︵︵ GENDER SYSTEMS : genderingleader , genderfool

✙ ︵︵ GENDERS : circusgender , jestergender , clowngender , ringleadertitleic , deathclownic , phosclownose , circuslexic , carninoir , happygoofycircusgender , theatreanic , carniqueer , clowncoreic , mechaniclownic , genderbouffon , pretendic , trijezeic , sillyjesteric

[PT: circus id pack. requested by rainbow drum anon. tagging id-pack-archive. system names. names. pronouns. usernames. titles. labels. gender systems. genders. /END PT]

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Strange Tales #90, November 1961. Stan Lee cover script, Jack Kirby pencils, George Klein inks, Stan Goldberg colors, Artie Simek letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database

[the-angry-acrobat]

running away to the circus is always an option

[braxiations]

those are probably my monkeys but i have a job so idrc rn

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Here are some unidentified "circus-style" wood types printed by Racine-based (formerly Stevens Point-based) book artist and letterpress printer Caren Heft from her 2012 artists book The Human Volcano: The Stories of Captain Don One Man Sideshow Sword Swallower, Fire Eater, & Tattooed Man, printed at Heft's Arcadian Press in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, on Hahnemuhle and Root River cotton papers in an edition of 35 copies.

The book includes photographic images and an edited interview with side-show performer Captain Don Leslie (1937-2007) by Texas folklorist, photographer, and filmmaker Alan Govenar (b. 1952). Captain Don recalls:

Being a tattooed man added to my repertoire, so to speak. If you were a fire-eater, you got one salary, and as a sword swallower, you got another salary, and if you were a tattooed man, it added up. So, I got paid three salaries. And as the years went on, I was able to demand more money because I added to my attractions. I learned human pin-cushion, electric chair, bed of nails, and human blockhead. So, I do about ten acts. In recent years, there have been so few circus sideshow performers out there that I've become, literally, a one-man sideshow.

Swallowing swords was dangerous enough, but it was eating fire that doomed Captain Don, as the lead in the gasoline he used for his act gave him tongue and throat cancer, killing him in 2007.

View more books printed by Caren Heft.

View some of our other Typography Tuesday posts.

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CIRCUS STAMPS

credit not required but appreciated !

don’t claim as yours !

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