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Scalzi for SFWA President

Posted by Mark | Filed under Art, Humor

I couldn’t resist join­ing in on all the fun, help­ing to pro­mote Mr. Scalzi’s write-in bid to become the SFWA pres­i­dent. My apol­o­gize to Grant Wood for bas­tardiz­ing his paint­ing but it made for a good joke (I hope). This poster was cre­ated entirely in GIMP and uses a Cre­ative Com­mons licensed pic­ture of Mr. Scalzi that I found on Flickr.

I should prob­a­bly give you a bit of back­ground, as not all of my read­ers nec­es­sar­ily read Mr. Scalzi’s blog on a daily basis. On 15 March 2007, Mr. Scalzi received his bal­lot for this years SFWA elec­tions. After look­ing it over, he decided he had some prob­lems with it and posted a note on his blog that he was now a write-in can­di­date. The next day he posted some pro­mo­tional images/posters made for him by var­i­ous fans. A cou­ple of days passed and still he kept talk­ing about this whole SFWA elec­tion. Nat­u­rally, this kept the fans pour­ing in with com­ments and addi­tional images. Finally I could resist the siren’s lure no more and cre­ated the image you see here.

Update: For the clos­est thing to an expla­na­tion of the bacon on a cat thing, you’ll need to read this post over at the What­ever.

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