All week, critics on the right have been pointing to Drew Friedman’s caricature of George W. Bush as the Joker to expose what they view as the hypocritical outrage expressed over that crazy Obama “Socialist” poster that somebody has been disseminating around L.A. (The image was originally posted here on VF.com, about a year ago.)
We asked Drew a couple times to comment, but he demurred. Finally, today, he broke his silence:
My image was done the week the Batman movie came out, and I think works well using the analogy of the Joker, an agent of chaos, destruction and death, all the while laughing through it all, as Bush, seemingly laughing and unmoved through the destruction reaped by his war in Iraq. The Obama/Joker image just doesn’t work as satire, humor or anything else. You can put the white face Joker makeup on any celebrity or politician and you’d have a provocative, negative image, but beyond that, what’s the actual point? What does being a supposed Socialist have to do with The Joker?
We encourage you to read the rest of his response, and explore his very excellent Web site, by clicking here.
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