Tuesday, July 22, 2008

There's A New Outsider Artist On the Scene...

...and he loves paved roads. In the tradition of Henry Darger, Adolf Wölfli, and other crazy folk artists, I mean, outsider artists, Oklahoma County Commissioner Brent Rinehart has launched his campaign for re-election with a daring self-published graphic novella, the likes of which you may have seen at Baltimore's American Visionary Museum. Good luck, Brent!

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2 comments:

natty Boom said...

This comic book attacks a political candidate that my day job endorses ("Jim Roth is our leader").
I'm from Oklahoma, and... i haven't been back in 2+ years.

Here's a response by good ol' Brent Rinehart, who apparently doesn't know what homophobia is - http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/07/21/seg.rinehart.comic.book.cnn?iref=24hours

coach said...

Update: Rinehart, the incumbent, came in 3rd in the three-way race for Commissioner. He's outta politics, and now faces felony campaign corruption charges. booyah!