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The Last Clown: Painted breath and broken laughter, etched forever on the Buffalo Nickel.
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Series: Curtainfall, Book 2
20th Century United States History
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 22 2025
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Last Clown (Curtainfall Volume 1)
A dark circus art book of skeleton clowns, haunted coins, and laughter that never truly left.
Step into the haunting world of The Last Clown - a gothic illustration book where forgotten performers are immortalized in nickel and shadow. Inspired by the macabre art of hobo nickel engraving, this volume reimagines the Buffalo Nickel as a miniature stage for the dead - each coin a curtain, each clown a memory.
Inside you'll find over 30 original illustrations of skeleton clowns carved into coin. Every figure is paired with a ghost story told in verse or lyrical prose - unsettling, tragic, and eerily beautiful. These aren't your typical circus acts. These are elegies for those who stayed behind when the tent fell.
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