The Comedy Carpet Blackpool Foreword by Constance Hale

The Comedy Carpet Blackpool Foreword by Constance HaleLaid out in front of Blackpool Tower in Englands famous seaside resort, the Comedy Carpet is the largest work of public art in Europe. Thousands of jokes and quotations by more than 850 comedians and writers from the early days of variety to the present are set in 2,200 square meters of granite and concrete in a design inspired by theater posters and bill stickers. From Tommy Cooper, Mae West, and Bob Hope to Frank Carson, Groucho Marx, and Ricky

Each photograph juxtaposes modernity with ancient relics

and a sense of effortless beauty

more stable

From lively

and zoodles

* Dog Days: Summer vacation is supposed to be a time for fun and relaxation

or a collector of cinematic art

and then a third

helpless in the whirlwind of drama—and danger—that swirled around her

author of Draw Every Day

From a rooster crowing at the crack of dawn to picking pumpkins for Halloween

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