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Anti-propogandist Posters to disseminate and enjoy...

Tom Coates

09:10 / 16.09.02

This could probably fit just as well in the Art & Design forum. But since it pertains so directly to the current politic situation, I thought it might as well go in the Switchboard. Feel free to move it, if it's innappropriately placed. It's a site in which political posters and 50s alarmist imagery is reconfigured to fit in with modern American politics --> Know Your Place, Shut Your Face...

Just three of the many many glorious works:

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Jack Fear

11:48 / 16.09.02

I actually referenced this in the this thread down in the comics section: Micah Wright, who created/detoiurned many of these images, is the writer of the new StormWatch: Team Achilles series.

Which, I'm told, doesn't demonstrate half the political consciousness that these images imply.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:39 / 16.09.02

Not yet, at least. It's utterly bewildering how gung ho 'Team Achilles' is. On the other hand, we're three issues in and there's just a whiff of subversion about the last one. Who knows? Maybe he's as cheeky as another comics writer who frequently spends ten issues making you think he's screwed it up...