Interests
Preface
Creepy Clown is a character who was created by me(Don Tatro) and first depicted in 1998 on a newsgroup for users of Bryce, a 3D
graphics program. He caught hold of the imagination of other users of Bryce and, as time went on, users of other computer
graphics programs, as well. When I made his character available for download and use by other artists, it precipitated what
has turned out to be an avalanche of Creepy Clown-based images. To date, almost three-hundred different artists have created thousands of Creepy Clown pictures,
Fairly early in Creepy's online career, he was introduced to The Dancing Baby, a cloyingly cute character who was popping
up all over the internet. Because of his personal preferences, which like the wonderful W.C. Fields, included a marked
dislike of children and. more generally, anyone or anything overly cute, Creepy was thought to be a natural to do battle
against the rising tide of Dancing Babies.
As he entered into the conflict, the reaction from viewers was strong and mixed. Some saw him as a horrible person for
inflicting harm on little children, but the great majority of viewers understood the joke, realized that Creepy and the
Dancing Babies were not real people, but cartoon characters, and relished the dark humor of Creepy's forays against the
vile little varmints, who quickly became familiarly known as DBs.
Many other artists quickly joined in and pitted their versions of Creepy against the obnoxious little runts. The more Creepy
versus The Dancing Baby pictures that were done, the more that was learned about DBs and their foul traits, until a sizable
lore built up around them.
This e-book is a compilation of my Creepy Clown versus The Dancing Baby images only. There are many more, though,
that have been done by other artists, and they too can be viewed on Creepy Clown's Gallery. Maybe after I complete this
compilation, the other artists will agree to a second compilation built around their creations. Many of them are quite
wonderful!
The pictures and text in this e-book need to be approached with the same attitude that one approaches , say, a Wyle E.
Coyote versus The Roadrunner animated cartoon. The characters do dastardly, destructive things to one another, but, in the
end, no one is really hurt, because like the cartoon characters they are, they are always alive and kicking in the next
installment.
(look in my blogs for the rest of this)