Sat 6 May 2006
Pimp Your War Art
Saturday, May 6th, 2006 at 5:58 amCategories: War; Journalism; Arts
Posted by Administrator
This New York Times ad reminds me of the old Field & Stream magazine, weaponized for the 21st century:

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This seems like as good a place as any to mention Get Your War On.
Interview with GYWO creator Dave Rees:
I had to get this off my chest. Late one night I was going to update my Web site with the regular, apolitical comics, and it just struck me that I just couldn’t continue with business as usual. Since I was sitting at my computer with the clip-art open, it was like, “Hell, I’ll make the clip-art characters say what I’m actually feeling.”
It wasn’t like I was sitting around thinking, “God, I have to come up with a really powerful anti-war tool.” I’m not an activist. I’m not coming from that background. But after September 11, I really had to come to terms with my own death—what felt like an imminent death—because I live in New York City.
That first night I did the strip, I was thinking to myself, “O.K., when I was in high school, my friends and I would play our little punk rock music and sing and yell about Ronald Reagan. But if there has ever been a time in my life to create something about what is happening in the world, now is that time.”
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It wasn’t like I was sitting around thinking, “God, I have to come up with a really powerful anti-war tool.” I’m not an activist. I’m not coming from that background. But after September 11, I really had to come to terms with my own death—what felt like an imminent death—because I live in New York City.