A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

A Children’s Treasury of Dead Celebrity Tattoos


As everybody knows, celebrities have been dying constantly lately, because they are probably under attack or particularly susceptible to some sort of terrible monster flu that we lesser folks are not important enough to be murdered by or something along those lines. BME has been doing its best to keep tabs on these doomed creatures and the grotesque memorial tattoos that follow, but holy smokes did we just hit the mother lode, as Jeremiah at Good Life Tattoos & Piercings in Akron, Ohio, just wrote in to inform us that Brian McFadden, also of Good Life, has just done a series of portraits of our favorite recently deceased famous people, and, sure enough…he has, indeed.

First up is noted auto-erotic asphyxiation-enthusiast David Carradine, seen above as a grasshopper, because, hey, why the hell not, with a conveniently placed rope in case you didn’t get the joke already.

As luck would have it, there is nothing particularly vulgar about this Farrah Fawcett piece, aside from the masturbation insinuation, which…yeah, we guess that is still pretty crude, now that we think about it.

Say hey, Billy Mays! We’re not entirely sure why he’s on a cupcake but at least he isn’t beating off.

As we discussed previously, we think the jury is still out on the acceptability of pieces of art portraying ol’ MJ as a dead person. This would typically be a pretty cut-and-dry case, but seeing as he shot to international fame largely due to a video in which he played a damn godless zombie, well…you can see our dilemma. Whatever, we’ll allow it.

And finally, the dead celebrity who started it all, Academy Award-winner Heath Ledger, seen here as the murderous Joker, albeit crossed, for some reason, with Krusty the Klown, who, as far as we know, is not a murderer (yet?). In conclusion, hopefully this will be the end of the untimely deaths of celebrities, points of light among us to whom we should aspire to be, the end.

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Comments

104 responses to “A Children’s Treasury of Dead Celebrity Tattoos”

  1. MOSES Avatar
    MOSES

    this made my day so much better

  2. MOSES Avatar
    MOSES

    this made my day so much better

  3. MOSES Avatar
    MOSES

    this made my day so much better

  4. MOSES Avatar
    MOSES

    this made my day so much better

  5. Meme Avatar
    Meme

    ^^^what he said.

  6. Meme Avatar
    Meme

    ^^^what he said.

  7. Meme Avatar
    Meme

    ^^^what he said.

  8. Meme Avatar
    Meme

    ^^^what he said.

  9. bird Avatar
    bird

    I wonder whats with the cupcake/billy mays one, hilarious all of em

  10. bird Avatar
    bird

    I wonder whats with the cupcake/billy mays one, hilarious all of em

  11. bird Avatar
    bird

    I wonder whats with the cupcake/billy mays one, hilarious all of em

  12. bird Avatar
    bird

    I wonder whats with the cupcake/billy mays one, hilarious all of em

  13. Second Banana Avatar
    Second Banana

    What about Ed McMahon?

  14. Second Banana Avatar
    Second Banana

    What about Ed McMahon?

  15. Second Banana Avatar
    Second Banana

    What about Ed McMahon?

  16. Second Banana Avatar
    Second Banana

    What about Ed McMahon?

  17. wade Avatar
    wade

    just to inform you all i am the lucky person who got the David Carradine piece, and its hilarity will never cease to stop

  18. wade Avatar
    wade

    just to inform you all i am the lucky person who got the David Carradine piece, and its hilarity will never cease to stop

  19. wade Avatar
    wade

    just to inform you all i am the lucky person who got the David Carradine piece, and its hilarity will never cease to stop

  20. wade Avatar
    wade

    just to inform you all i am the lucky person who got the David Carradine piece, and its hilarity will never cease to stop

  21. swoon Avatar

    the Michael one with “i’m dead” under it made me burst out laughing about how blunt it is. hahaha

  22. swoon Avatar

    the Michael one with “i’m dead” under it made me burst out laughing about how blunt it is. hahaha

  23. swoon Avatar

    the Michael one with “i’m dead” under it made me burst out laughing about how blunt it is. hahaha

  24. swoon Avatar

    the Michael one with “i’m dead” under it made me burst out laughing about how blunt it is. hahaha

  25. MadHatter Avatar
    MadHatter

    Are you serious with the Billy Mays tattoo? Is a guy who was in a couple of commercials really so important to someone?

  26. MadHatter Avatar
    MadHatter

    Are you serious with the Billy Mays tattoo? Is a guy who was in a couple of commercials really so important to someone?

  27. MadHatter Avatar
    MadHatter

    Are you serious with the Billy Mays tattoo? Is a guy who was in a couple of commercials really so important to someone?

  28. MadHatter Avatar
    MadHatter

    Are you serious with the Billy Mays tattoo? Is a guy who was in a couple of commercials really so important to someone?

  29. Jabourasaurus Avatar
    Jabourasaurus

    That Farah Fawcett one is brilliant. The whole subliminal image thing with the flipped part didn’t appear to me at first.

  30. Jabourasaurus Avatar
    Jabourasaurus

    That Farah Fawcett one is brilliant. The whole subliminal image thing with the flipped part didn’t appear to me at first.

  31. Jabourasaurus Avatar
    Jabourasaurus

    That Farah Fawcett one is brilliant. The whole subliminal image thing with the flipped part didn’t appear to me at first.

  32. Jabourasaurus Avatar
    Jabourasaurus

    That Farah Fawcett one is brilliant. The whole subliminal image thing with the flipped part didn’t appear to me at first.

  33. Lexi Avatar
    Lexi

    Ahahahaha. These are so great. I got my first tattoo at Good Life. 😀

  34. Lexi Avatar
    Lexi

    Ahahahaha. These are so great. I got my first tattoo at Good Life. 😀

  35. Lexi Avatar
    Lexi

    Ahahahaha. These are so great. I got my first tattoo at Good Life. 😀

  36. Lexi Avatar
    Lexi

    Ahahahaha. These are so great. I got my first tattoo at Good Life. 😀

  37. bbyjess Avatar
    bbyjess

    Yay Brian! 🙂

  38. bbyjess Avatar
    bbyjess

    Yay Brian! 🙂

  39. bbyjess Avatar
    bbyjess

    Yay Brian! 🙂

  40. bbyjess Avatar
    bbyjess

    Yay Brian! 🙂

  41. Jolearra Avatar

    loves these

  42. Jolearra Avatar

    loves these

  43. Jolearra Avatar

    loves these

  44. Jolearra Avatar

    loves these

  45. Matt Avatar

    This site will always be a godsend to me as something to point the people who don’t understand my boring tattoos towards.

    The idea that these pieces of artwork even exist as concepts, let alone something that people would commit bits of their skin to, gives me hope that the world is an alright place to be in.

    God bless you hilarious bastards.

  46. Matt Avatar

    This site will always be a godsend to me as something to point the people who don’t understand my boring tattoos towards.

    The idea that these pieces of artwork even exist as concepts, let alone something that people would commit bits of their skin to, gives me hope that the world is an alright place to be in.

    God bless you hilarious bastards.

  47. Matt Avatar

    This site will always be a godsend to me as something to point the people who don’t understand my boring tattoos towards.

    The idea that these pieces of artwork even exist as concepts, let alone something that people would commit bits of their skin to, gives me hope that the world is an alright place to be in.

    God bless you hilarious bastards.

  48. Matt Avatar

    This site will always be a godsend to me as something to point the people who don’t understand my boring tattoos towards.

    The idea that these pieces of artwork even exist as concepts, let alone something that people would commit bits of their skin to, gives me hope that the world is an alright place to be in.

    God bless you hilarious bastards.

  49. Meg Avatar

    oh brian….you never cease to amaze me <3

  50. Meg Avatar

    oh brian….you never cease to amaze me <3

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