May 7, 2025
Sideshow banner for the beautiful Dot Carlson … zoom to see the small sign tacked to her midriff advising the disappointed patron that Dot was “absent today.”
seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from Canada
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Indonesia
seen from China
seen from Netherlands
seen from Canada
seen from Netherlands
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Netherlands
seen from China
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from India
seen from Germany
Sideshow banner for the beautiful Dot Carlson … zoom to see the small sign tacked to her midriff advising the disappointed patron that Dot was “absent today.”
Had You Coiled 'Round My Arm
How Could You Ever Know?
How I Loved Your Diamond Eyes
But That Was Long Ago . . .
Auria Virelle doing a sideshow performance at The House of Horror's Valentine's Massacre Market (Lowell, MA)
Now Available ~ The Human Chimaera: Sideshow Prodigies & Other Exceptional People - Revised Edition Now with additional art and text. Containing over 100 original pen and ink portraits alongside biographic text, The Human Chimaera is an indispensable guide to the greatest stars of the circus sideshows and dime museums. Includes a foreword by John Robinson of Sideshow World. Available in a choice of 3 cover formats. from - https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/9839587-the-human-chimaera
I’ve been seeing this fun piece of art, depicting a sideshow fat man, for years but don’t have any information on its provenance …
Still photo from the American silent short film Circus Day (1919), published in the December 20, 1919 edition of Exhibitors Herald.
WOLVERINE: RONIN
Art by GIAN GALANG