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When I drew this I had a specific SF zine in mind. Ironically, the editor never used it. No matter... I found another fanzine publisher eventually. At the time I was very interesting in building Japanese kits of handguns, so you'll find more such subjects in my art in the late 80's than either before or since. The snub-nose in the hoslter is a Smith & Wesson type. The turret is more or less that of a WWII Tiger, which I freely admit makes no sense whatever.
The basic idea behind the drawing is that a desert like colony planet is contested by two different powers. One is more human, though furry. Because the colonies are at the very margin of each power's sphere of influence, they depend on home-based technology. Rather than the cuttingg edge, each power falls back on history, recapitulating more ore less the history of war on Earth. Not that many US Marines or SS storm trooper ever wore high heeled thigh boots...
The stubby bottle of beer is the old style Canadian bottle, which was phased out so bottle makers could just ship us their US production. Cultural imperialism at its best. : ( The lable shows it's a bottle of Molson's, which at least remains better than most American brews even if it isn't in the traditional bottle anymore.
The art exists in coloured form, but hasn't been scanned.
The basic idea behind the drawing is that a desert like colony planet is contested by two different powers. One is more human, though furry. Because the colonies are at the very margin of each power's sphere of influence, they depend on home-based technology. Rather than the cuttingg edge, each power falls back on history, recapitulating more ore less the history of war on Earth. Not that many US Marines or SS storm trooper ever wore high heeled thigh boots...
The stubby bottle of beer is the old style Canadian bottle, which was phased out so bottle makers could just ship us their US production. Cultural imperialism at its best. : ( The lable shows it's a bottle of Molson's, which at least remains better than most American brews even if it isn't in the traditional bottle anymore.
The art exists in coloured form, but hasn't been scanned.
Category All / All
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File Size 174.6 kB
I don’t know that it was “cultural imperialism” per se so much as a simple economic calculation:
A: “Let’s see . . . we can maintain two separate bottle shapes, which means two different production lines, two different sets of machinery, and all the associated costs—or we can eliminate one and cut our costs by a third or more. Hmm, tough choice.”
B: “So which do we eliminate?”
A: “Well . . . this type of bottle is marketed to x customers, and that type of bottle is marketed to x/10 customers. Hmm, tough choice.”
A: “Let’s see . . . we can maintain two separate bottle shapes, which means two different production lines, two different sets of machinery, and all the associated costs—or we can eliminate one and cut our costs by a third or more. Hmm, tough choice.”
B: “So which do we eliminate?”
A: “Well . . . this type of bottle is marketed to x customers, and that type of bottle is marketed to x/10 customers. Hmm, tough choice.”
Call it what you want, but unless regional differences are maintained (in law presumably) then the inevitable lowest common denominator is that we'll all end up spezking Chinese and eating a lot more rice, in whatever size and shape containers happen to be made in Shanghai1
Some folks think it might come to that. I’m not one of them, and certainly I think regional differences are a good thing—but I also think the US comes in for a huge ration more BS than it deserves. It deserves some, yes . . . as does every other culture or nation. Perhaps it was the Canadian bottlers who made the decision. Perhaps it was not forced on them by anyone else.
I can’t see the bottle well enough, but I don’t think that style was exclusively Canadian; if it’s the design I’m thinking it might be, that was widespread through much of the industrialized world. I remember similar bottles in Europe, for instance, when I was living there as a kid in the sixties. I vaguely recall seeing US bottles of much the same shape. Perhaps other forces were at work—economic ones. That would be my bet.
I can’t see the bottle well enough, but I don’t think that style was exclusively Canadian; if it’s the design I’m thinking it might be, that was widespread through much of the industrialized world. I remember similar bottles in Europe, for instance, when I was living there as a kid in the sixties. I vaguely recall seeing US bottles of much the same shape. Perhaps other forces were at work—economic ones. That would be my bet.
Don't tempt them- if Canadians got it in their heads to settle another planet just to bring back stubbies, then by God they would settle another planet and bring back stubbies. Don't even mention Tim Hortons, if they get a liquor licence it could mean the difference between the War of 1812 and the War of 2012. I hope the later editor was more apprecative of the submitted work.
'It's a peacefull smoke break. The tank's just the day job.'
'It's a peacefull smoke break. The tank's just the day job.'
no no! no!!.......GAAAAHHHH!!!!.........*bumps his head on the table*
see?......see!?......see!!???.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_(alien)
see?......see!?......see!!???.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_(alien)
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