You should have a little background on just how “The Bin Laden Series” came about, since I don’t claim to be a cartoonist and certainly no political satirist. The drawings came about as the result of a series of emails between two lunatics, namely, me and my friend Marty:
In a message dated 5/7/2011, Marty writes:
LOL. You know…I…..I…..I was gonna ask you to draw a pic of bin Laden’s wife getting shot in the leg but I still suspect you do have some art talent and that won’t do at all. Yes, I know it’s kinda insulting to ask people who can’t draw to draw pic so I can roll around and laugh over them. I post them at work you know? I look at it this way. I write and ROFL. TONS of people read my crap. Why shouldn’t they be mystified over some of these drawings? Did I show you the one I nagged GM to draw of…LOL..don’t get mad, no telling what tickled my fancy that day but… I wanted her to draw a pic of Jesus punting an infant. It’s deliciously Thurber-like. Jesus looks sort of…crazed or at the least, wholly unaffected by all this and the infant…ROLF…looks like some sort of dirt encrusted “thing” bouncing off the end of Jesus’s foot. I made like oh..30 copies and papered the lower end of the shipyard. A few stayed up for months only because I’m sure the people looking at them just couldn’t be at all sure it was Jesus and what he was pushing/kicking with is foot. They prolly figured there was some joke they surely just didn’t get and it was most likely some Muslim SOB and perhaps the inkfant was an IED and it was soon to blow up.
In a message dated 5/7/2011, Legionne writes:
Laughs…….I don’t draw well enough for that. Once, I drew a picture for one of Tina’s projects she had to do……it was some terrorists and one was shooting at the other one, who was running away. We laughed over that for the longest time, it looked like the guy was laughing madly, trying to outrun the bullet! I bet her teacher really wondered about her after that!
In a message dated 5/7/2011, Marty writes:
Oh shit! ROFLMAO! You’re PERFECT for it! You sure you won’t do it???? I drew a really, really, really awful pic of bin Laden on a while board with his eyes X’d out. It was just…awful. I wrote something like he got what he deserved the bastard. LOL.It was still up as of last night. But I have to make them bad. You..you sure you won’t draw it for me? I won’t lie. I’m sure to just howl laughing and fall on the floor because my ribs ache. LOL. I’d of paid admission to see the look on her teacher’s face.
In a message dated 5/7/2011, Marty writes:
Nooooo….the worse, the better. LOL And yes, it could actually be difficult to purposely draw a bad picture. But what can I say, they make me laugh like hell…..LOL Do you remember that awful and BIZARRE crayon picture I drew on put on my profile pics, claiming my nephew drew it? You have..LOL..no idea how difficult it was for me to purposely draw a bad pic that appeared as if a no talent kid drew it. GM saw it and nagged and nagged me to sent the original to her. Hell, I didn’t know where it was. LOL. I finally ran across it in a heap one day and…mailed it to her. I dunno about GM sometimes. lol.
In a message dated 5/7/2011, Legionne writes:
Laughs…..yeah, I think I remember it. Well, it was special to her. I can understand it.In a message dated 5/7/2011, Marty writes:LOL. I don’t wanna offend you. But…you write like a published superstar author. LOL.You just can’t be good at everything and there’s something about bad drawings that makes me howl. I mean, you can tell just from the pains I took for ROFL..that awful picture I drew I claimed my ritalin infused nephew drew of “The Flash” bashing Master Yoda and..lol..the helpful Ace hardware man.
In a message dated 5/7/2011, Legionne writes:
Laughs…….I’m really a horrid artist, but I’ll try. If nothing else, it’ll be good for a howling laugh! I’ll work on it and scan it onto the computer.In a message dated 5/7/2011, Marty writes:
ROFLMAO! I can remember feedback I’d get from that fake pic. People would ask how old my nephew was. I told them 12. “Oh.” they’s remark or the like. LOL! I guess they expected me to say “He’s 4″ or something like that. LOL! Some would ask “What’s he upset about?” LOL! I’d either act offended or tell them tales like “We think he was groped by a clerk in a hardware store and is mad his heroes didn’t step in to help him but he won’t talk about it. Now, he lights fires and stabs cats with steak knives. Any ideas?” ROFL. Most that did ask insisted yes, he surely was molested by someone in some store and to get him to therapy right away. I told them..”I dunno. He seems ok, plays videos and screams, gets in fights with his friends like normal boys do. But he did get caught peeing on his father’s pillow. Think it means anything? I mean, he’s always been a brat.” LOL! And the ones that didn’t suspect they were being messed with would emphatically insist his parents get him into therapy ASAP. I told them I’d pass it along but wasn’t optimistic about hm going.
Thus, “The Bin Laden Series” was born, the product of a pair of mordant senses of humor!
I call this one “Bedtime for Bin Laden.”
This is “Osama’s Big Nite.”
I hope I don’t become the target of radical muslim fundamentalists and have to go into hiding!
