Phantom Clowns and Political Cartoons: The Final Ones, Hopefully

Some political cartoons and memes are still being created. Hopefully, this mixing of creepy clowns and politics is over soon after Halloween and the Election.

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Clown memes and aligned visual jokes have about run their course in 2016.

Jokers to the left and clowns to the right.

Phantom Clowns and Bigfoot

What's the connection between "Phantom Clowns" and "Bigfoot"? The visual comics and cartoonists have not been afraid to venture into this realm, long before the current flap.

McDonald Corp., 2006.

Daniel Charles Piraro, 2010

Kerry Callen, 2014.

Chris Holm, 2016.

The origins of the overlap...


Louisiana, Missouri, 1972 (Momo)

Brookline, Massachusetts, and the elsewhere, 1981 (Phantom Clowns)

Greenville, SC, 2016 (Phantom Clowns)