Here’s a screen shot from Aljazeera.net showing a cartoon of mine being waved about in the streets of Cairo. Just goes to show that I am a terrible judge of my own crap. The Egyptian Che graphic was done in about 30 minutes with little expectation that it would even get posted anywhere, let alone find physical representation at the flash point of its inspiration, while it took me 5 hours to draw Mark Twain with a Nigga tattoo scrawled across his naked chest, me muttering the whole time: this is pure genius – absolutely kickass brilliant – t-shirts, skateboards, stickers, this thing is going to be EVERYWHERE! (Pause to allow for the sound of a small turd hitting the ground.)
Popularity shouldn’t be confused with quality. The pharaoh/Che graphic is smart and certainly struck a cord, which is great and all, but the Twain/Nigga picture is fucking brilliant.
Careful! The Korda estate is touchy these days…
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3366975/Ruff-justice-for-Che-Grrr-vara.html
geez, ya never know. I’ve been seeing this image as a t-shirt since you posted it. congrats, good work………keep going!!!
HOORAY!!!! I’ve been following for a while now. This is great news for a talented artist!
It gets even better. Today they seem to be using the image as the logo for their liveblog of Egyptian events.
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/07/live-blog-feb-8-egypt-protests
Dwayne, you and your fish are forgiven ! Let us hope that the Egyptians, with the help of our cartoon, will succeed in avoiding the Mubarakism without Mubarak that some of their «friends» are attempting to impose upon them….
Henri
good for you bro, you deserve it!
awesome work, awesome thinking….
you deserve to be interviewed on Al Jazeera, to hear you speak