Comments on: Evil Klowny Flakes

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:40:00 +0000

That would be Cesar Romero. Unless you lived in an alternate universe where Imogene Coca was Catwoman.

By: evilJaze

evilJaze — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:41:00 +0000

Frankly, I want to know why an obviously drawn/painted image of a fictional clown would need a drawn/painted skull cap as part of his make-up?

By: Godfree

Godfree — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:27:00 +0000

It ain’t no use if you ain’t got the boost! The boost you get from Loostner’s! Loooooooooostner’s!

By: mikedt

mikedt — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:24:00 +0000

For some reason this reminds me of Sid Ceasar’s Joker from the old Batman tv show. There’s just something about that smile that looks like him.

By: heavystarch

heavystarch — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:23:00 +0000

The hand was intentionally left bare so Creepy Gacy Clown could feel his victims once the roofied cereal takes over his victim.

By: Gordon Klock

Gordon Klock — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:08:00 +0000

That is a good question.Despite my guilty pleasure indulgences into scary clown stuff;’Killer Klowns from Outer Space’,The Joker(best villain EVER),Kiss-type weird punk bands,etc, something really sad happened somewhere, when I was a kid,we were scared of them only at first,but later they were trusted & loved (they were often traditionally used to distract the audience’s attention away from accidents, & tragedies(now,it seems everybody laps it up, blood & all)Perhaps it was people like John W.Gacy that destroyed that trust,along with the general decomposition of civility,decency,etc.
It was once considered an honorable artform. :<(

By: Petzl

Petzl — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:19:00 +0000

To add to the commentary on just his hand, I think the big non-makeuped “man hand” (shaded in a way that almost gives the impression hairy knuckles) is disconcerting when placed next to fully made-up clown.

The absence of makeup (or a clown’s glove) on the hand makes it look like the get-up is a disguise and not a true clown. Which just amplifies the creepiness this drawing already radiates.

By: Petzl

Petzl — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:09:00 +0000

@JohnQPublic
Blame Gacy and Stephen King.

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:06:00 +0000

Possible original source material for Loosener’s Castor Oil Flakes?

A warm, heaping bowl full of Loosener’s Castor Oil Flakes—with real glycerin vibrafoam! It doesn’t just wash your mouth out—it cleans the whole system, right on down the drain!

By: JohnQPublic

JohnQPublic — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:39:00 +0000

there was a point when clowns were universally accepted as genuinely funny. What happened? The tides shifted universally to paint clowns as symbols of creepiness. All that initial goodwill is completely gone from our cultural consciousness. How did this happen? Will we someday look at stand up comics as negatively as we do clowns?

By: Brett Myers

Brett Myers — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:44:00 +0000

He looks a lot like Milton Berle.

By: Spieguh

Spieguh — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:48:00 +0000

Seanbaby at Cracked.com did a write-up about freaky cereal mascots, including Krinkles here.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-8-most-baffling-food-mascots-all-time_p2/

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:43:00 +0000

I like his little hat. Is he a Goth?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqheLN9a6dE

By: seyo

seyo — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:48:00 +0000

I was actually about to comment on his fucked up finger. His pinky probably got dislocated from all the Flying Trapeze work he does, which is why he’s apparently so high on endorphins and adrenaline, and deliriously famished.

By: Assault_is_eternal

Assault_is_eternal — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:39:00 +0000

They’ll destroy us all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvWknbuZxn0

By: dejoh

dejoh — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:57:00 +0000

I like the cover copy on the box. Looks like a good old fashon hand lettered font.

By: blueelm

blueelm — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:23:00 +0000

Anyone seen the commercials? Now I see why my mom was so warped.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWXGcsMTHw

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:13:00 +0000

“No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable.” ~Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:02:00 +0000

Fucking clowns… how do they work?

I’m glad that I wasn’t afraid of clowns when I was a kid. Saved me a bunch of additional angst. The horror didn’t really dawn on me until I was well into adulthood. Now I find myself fascinated/horrified by the whole clown gestalt.

My mom wouldn’t buy us any SugarClown cereal either.

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:51:00 +0000

Never browse boingboing in the middle of the night.

OR THE CLOWN WILL EAT YOUR SOUL!

By: heavystarch

heavystarch — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:49:00 +0000

Creepy clown is obviously creepy.

But why hasn’t anyone noticed that seriously fucked up pinky finger?
Like who the fuck eats with their pinky so far out there it might snap off?
That pinky looks like it’s trying to break loose and get away from obvious creepo the clown.

By: Andrew Singleton

Andrew Singleton — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:44:00 +0000

They All Float down here.

By: cdh1971

cdh1971 — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:06:00 +0000

I was going to comment, but your comment is more than my comment.

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:53:00 +0000

In Soviet Russia, cereal eats you!

By: Rich Keller

Rich Keller — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:22:00 +0000

I had a similar similar idea…

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:09:00 +0000

Well you can just rock me to sleep tonight.

By: EH

EH — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 05:21:00 +0000

Very Scoopy.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 05:01:00 +0000

So Hi was the star of one of the segments of the Linus the Lion show. A cartoon show created by Post to shill its cereals.

I remember the show, just barely. So Hi was martial artist of sorts. At least, he could move really quickly.

My mom would never buy sugary cereals, so Post entertained us for free!

By: BarBarSeven

BarBarSeven — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 04:56:00 +0000

Maybe clowns are only benign once every few weeks when their carny-lifestyle sourced herpes goes into remission, but otherwise they can rot in hell.

By: Bucket

Bucket — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 04:36:00 +0000

I had a similar idea…
http://i.imgur.com/rC0ID.jpg