UNDERWATER MUSEUM #1
a new colour anthology zine highlighting some of the more abstract comix artists on the rack at DESERT ISLAND (exclusively) in Brooklyn
back cover drawing of dueling women by MEG POWERS..
Calligraphic front cover by Tyler Luetkehans..
pick it up at CAKE Chicago this weekend at TABLE # 102 (the beztt tablesk) from GW Duncanson, Katbus and/or Hazel Newlevant
Contributors Include:
Neil Jackson
Wade Collier
also the amazingly beautiful book Mimi & The Wolves by Alabaster can be seen to the left and is well worth a gander if you haven’t picked one up yet..
“Clown Grad”, 2013
Page 1
“Clown Grad”, 2013
Page 2
“The Big Spill”
Dome Depot 2 Color Screenprint Collabo w/ Erina Davidson
New book for sale in my online comic book shop!
MY FINEST PUBLICATION TO DATE!
CLOWN
$10 + $3 shipping
7.75” x 5”
46 pages (10 in color)
DELUXE LIMITED edition NOOK BOOK of alternately scary and depressing clown comics and illustrations. Genuinely terrifying physical object; result of having accidentally spent a sizable chunk of my Senior year of college exorcising my childhood fear of clowns by exploring the dark mythology of clownhood in every way I could imagine.
Includes:
“Clown Art”
“John Wayne Gacy in ‘Pogo the Clown’” (parts 1, 2, 3, 4)
“Pagliacci” adaptation (cast, prologue, acts 1 & 2)”I would like to add you as a professional network on linkedin”
“Clown Fashion”
“Cat Trick”
“Beers of a Clown”
“Cool Tricks”
“Happy 1st Birthday, Burt”
“Shelly’s Chainsaw Trick Gets out of Hand”
all 3 Hospital Clowns
with “Clown Town 50th Annual Sunday Funday Grand Parade”
and the as-of-now print-exclusive “Clown Graduation” 2 page strip. (The comic will be dropping post real-life Art School Graduation on ATPratt.net)
plus countless pages (you could probably count them if you wanted) of drawing, painting, collages and bonus material that will never appear anywhere but between these covers.
color foldout poster peeks through individually hand-cut customizable clown face covers (jagged teeth or smooth toothless options available)
every order comes with 1 FREE original clown ink drawing! (FREE for you, MILLION$ on eBay(????)(in 5-10 years)(?????????????))
Editor’s Note: At some point during my adolescence I stopped being scared of the grisly shadow laid over the often misunderstood artform, and at some point while creating the content for this collection I developed a great respect for the work that real clowns do. Sometimes I feel a tinge of regret for largely portraying the clown community as unhinged psychopaths in some/most of my stories, but the work is intended as much as satire of media portrayals as it is a celebration of clowning in general. -Pratt
Editor’s Note 2: I’m not affiliated with Shaggy 2 Dope &/or Violent J of ICP nor with the extended juggalo family. I’m not against them at all, though I do feel a bit like they’re maybe taking this whole thing a bit too far. I was worried that people would just assume I was one of them the whole time I worked on all this stuff, not that that would be bad or anything, it’s just that I was hoping to approach the topic with a fresh, non juggalo perspective.. I am not trying to alienate potential fans and/or customers though, so I guess I’m.. hesitantly down with.. “the clown”. Maybe there is room for some juggalo action in volume 2. Investigative journalism like Danny Brown’s could be entertaining and possibly even enlightening. I will keep my mind open for the future, whatever it may bring. -Pratt
Editor’s Note 3: There are currently no plans for a volume 2, or any more clown content of any kind in the foreseeable future. I have thoroughly exhausted the topic and any further efforts would lose all hope of originality and inevitably end up in the dreaded metaphorical wastebasket filled with other tired and derivative zines nobody reads or cares about. This is all “She” wrote. ”She” here refers of course to the author and illustrator, world-famous cartoon star A. T. Pratt .. No more clowns ever. -Pratt
Did I alienate ALL potential buyers yet? I’m still trying out various business tactics, not sure if this is coming off like the guys who won’t stop bothering you at conventions or if it’s ok for me to just babble on like this.. Internet etiquette is constantly evolving but I am not at all sure how obnoxious I come off, and really people ought to know when to shut up I mean come on but seriously I am very proud of all this clown nonsense I’ve put together and I want people to have it, so please purchase off bigcartel or in person if you’re in Providence or New York! ”Thank You”/”Find something better to do” to whoever reads all this. Hopefully most people just click the link and buy the damn thing before they knew what hit’em..
CITTAMERDA
coming soon to ATPratt.net
gotta sleep sometime, i guess..
purple dog party. no big deal.
puppy dog! just hanging out, having fun. pretty simple, no problems! life’s great!
Collaboration with Guy Kozak for Neighbors Zine
Q:Hey! I loved your comic-book style retelling of Pagliacci. I came across it in the #opera tag. I think it really conveys the spirit and tension in the opera. Did you every finish the comic? If so, I hope you post the rest. Anyway, thanks for posting your art! It was a pleasure to read.
the whole thing is now posted on my tumblr web page, ATPratt.net!
you can read through my entire adaptation first prologue, then cast, then act 1 parts 1 and 2 then act 2 parts 1 and 2 by keeping on scrolling down.
I’m so glad I’ve reached a new audience with my adaptation! I loved watching different casts interpret the original on youtube as I drew my own interpretation! I very much enjoyed the challenge of translating the sweeping drama of the opera’s characters into the tiny expressions of my cartoon representations.
I’d be interested in adapting more operas some day, any suggestions as to which one should be next?
“Pagliacci” Prologue














