(07-05-2020, 01:52 PM)Alliecat Wrote: Ahh, I remember when we were talking about her here a couple years ago, because I was wondering about her coat for PUDDLE's "dress like your doll" contest... that was before I ended up making one.
Yes, that's right! You asked some questions about the jacket because you were looking for one in a similar style... for a pirate jacket!
George Washington Barbie was an "influence buy" a couple of years ago here on the forum during one of the earlier Doll A Day challenges. Somebody posted one - I don't remember who - and I decided I needed one, especially when they turned out to be inex-pensive on eBay.
As for your other question about the drawing, that is a political cartoon I cut out of an issue of an independent local newspaper from the 1990s that I found in a box of junk a while back. In the margins are the names of a number of "multi-national corporations." The drawing was some kind of commentary on the collusion between the Bush administration and the oil companies and other big businesses to incite and wage an endless war in the Middle East.
I looked up the artist online. In the early '90s he was doing political cartoons to syndicate to local "progressive" newspapers around the country - back when newspapers were a thing and progressivism was more about intelligent, reasoned discourse than spray paint and looting. He ended up becoming a "big time" artist providing cover art for major mainstream magazines like Time and stuff.
And coincidentally... now I wish I could remember the name of the artist... the original artwork for this drawing was available for sale on his website. It was a small work, an 8x8 inch linoleum block print, priced at $600. Would have been kinda cool to own the original, but for $600, I'll stick with the newspaper version.
They're not dolls, they're action figures!