About
Children’s Coloring Book Parodies refers to both humorous coloring books purposefully created for adults with adult themes and pages from real children’s coloring books with unintentional inappropriate content highlighted or added.
Origin
On June 24th, 2009, The King of Crayon[1], a blog made of up pages from children’s coloring books colored in in a way that makes them more violent or funny than originally intended, posted its first picture.
Spread
On August 27th, 2010, popular YouTube musician Molly Lewis[3] tweeted a series of pages from a dinosaur coloring book that she colored in and captioned to portray the dinosaurs as hipsters. The collection of pictures was covered by several websites such as UpRoxx[2] and Geekosystem.[4]
In 2011 and 2012 pop culture and adult themed coloring books, which were published as print books but whose scanned and uploaded pages spread through the web, became popular. On September 15th, 2011, 90s pop culture-themed Colour Me Good 90s[16] (below, right) was published. The book was featured on The Guardian[17]. On October 30th, 2012, Coloring for Grown-Ups: The Adult Activity Book[9] (below, center), a coloring book featuring adult situations like finding an apartment or dealing with a one night stand, was published. The book was featured on The Huffington Post[12] and Complex.[13] On July 15th, 2012[10], Colour Me Good Ryan Gosling (below, left), was published. The book were featured on Buzzfeed[11] and Paste.[14]
The trend continued in 2013 with the publication of attractive male celebrity themed Color Me Swoon: The Beefcake Activity Book for Good Color-Inners as well as Beginners[15] and Bun B’s Rapper Coloring and Activity Book.[18]
On March 17th, 2014, the blog Coloring Book Corruptions[5], which features pages from children’s coloring books colored in to become NSFW, posted its first picture. A photoset of edited coloring book pages taken from the blog reached the front page of Reddit[8] on April 14th, 2014. The blog was covered by several sites including The Laughing Squid[6] and Smosh.[7]
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1]King of Crayon – King of Crayon
[2]UPRoxx – Hipster Dinosaurs Knew About These Links Before They Were Cool
[4]GeekoSystem – Hipster Dinosaurs
[5]Coloring Book Corruptions – coloringbookcorruptions
[6]The Laughing Squid – Coloring Book Corruptions, Innocent Children’s Coloring Book Pages Defaced and Turned Into Something Sinister
[7]Smosh – These 22 Coloring Book Corruptions Totally Ruin The Innocence Of Childhood
[8]Coloring Book Corruptions – Thanks Reddit
[9]Amazon – Coloring for Grown-Ups: The Adult Activity Book
[10]Amazon – Colour Me Good Ryan Gosling
[11]Buzzfeed – A Ryan Gosling Coloring Book For Your Adult Life
[12]The Huffington Post – Coloring For Grown-Ups
[13]Complex – Coloring for Grown-Ups: The Adult Activity Book
[14]Paste Magazine – Check Out Colour Me Good, A Ryan Gosling Coloring Book
[15]Amazon – Color Me Swoon: The Beefcake Activity Book for Good Color-Inners as well as Beginners
[16]Amazon – Colour Me Good 90s
[17]The Guardian – Your chance to colour in the past
[18]Amazon – Bun B’s Rapper Coloring and Activity Book
[19]Zany Pickle – When Coloring Books Go Bad (defunct)