From spray-painted walls to fine-inked tattoos to drawings on prison envelopes sent from fathers to their kids, the cholo clown has for more than a half-century been deeply tied to L.A.’s ...

From spray-painted walls to fine-inked tattoos to drawings on prison envelopes sent from fathers to their kids, the cholo clown has for more than a half-century been deeply tied to L.A.’s ...

Clowns awaken the thirst for life.” As for becoming a clown, that takes years, he says. “When someone comes and asks me if they can become a clown, I tell them not to even think about it.

JOHN WAYNE GACY, ‘Pogo the clown’ Prolific convicted serial killer John Wayne Gacy's police arrest photo from 21 December 1978. A “skull clown” painting from by serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

In “Jumping Beans,” 14 the clown makes a rubber stamp in his own likeness, cloning himself and overrunning the office 15 with an army of clowns, who lasso Max and wrestle him to the floor.