GEE! I wish I were a MAN!

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-05-22 04:59am

(What did you think it was going to be?

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Anyone else have any favorite recruiting poster, propaganda or otherwise patriotic/nationalist art that strikes you? (No photoshops, this means you SomethingAwful :p)

Another good one:

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-05-22 01:02pm

Actually, the "GEE! I wish I were a man!" is my favorite propaganda poster. I even made a StarWars version for the Empire, though it is nowhere near as nice as Howard Chandler Christy's.

http://bobstuffs.no-ip.com/gilhamilton/twilekrec.jpg

I made a marker colored version, but I didn't finish it due to lack of demand.

http://bobstuffs.no-ip.com/gilhamilton/mrktwileka1.jpg

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-05-23 12:11am

Regarding the posted: I'd work on the writing, for some reason it looks too primative despite the effect you were going for

Here's some more good ones:

Self-explanatory.

Also self-explanatory.

Soviet dirigibles are coming to get you!

A hapless soldier runs from the threat of VD, looming overhead like some movie title gone horribly awry.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-23 02:03am

I love that army one.

"Be a SHEEP!" Yeah, I want to be one of the lambs to the slaughter.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-05-23 08:30am

There's a greasyspoon in Whitechapel that collects WWII memorabilia. This is my absiolute favourite (it's also on the wall in the galley of HMS Belfast)

I think it's a great recruitment poster for women into intelligence

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-05-23 11:20am

Coincidentally, a someone in LJ-Community I belong to has posted This article on the use of sex in propaganda during the war.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-05-23 02:12pm

I just read that page. Very interesting.

That's the type of black-ops I'd want to do: dropping pornography.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-05-23 02:32pm

InnerBrat wrote:Coincidentally, a someone in LJ-Community I belong to has posted This article on the use of sex in propaganda during the war.

Interesting. Gives me flashbacks to a book about WW2 propaganda I once read...

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-05-23 08:20pm

Say, how old are those US Army and USMC posters?

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-05-25 06:11am

That poster with the sheep and the flock. It looks like they're using Monica Lewinsky's face on it

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2004-05-27 09:55pm

I've always liked this one.

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-05-29 05:39pm

For whatever reason, that Black/Navy poster is killing me. I cannot look at it for longer than three seconds before going into giggles. I think I'll have to use that in my sig.

-Damien