Artist of Joker Obama Image Revealed
For some time now the image of Barack Obama as the Joker from the Dark Knight movie has been making the rounds as mysteriously placed posters bearing the word ’socialism’ below the image. Crafty marketers have seized on the opportunity and have created posters, t-shirts and action figures as well as using the image as a focal point to draw attention to themselves and their blogs. Up until now, the name of the artist was not publicly know. However, the Los Angeles Times are now reporting the identity of the artist as being Firas Alkhateeb, a college student from Chicago. Alkhateeb created the image from a Time Magazine cover featurning then candidate Barack Obama on its cover and used Photoshop to create the joker effect. Alkhateeb uploaded the image to his Flickr account where it resided along side other manipulated images of various politicos and public figures. It remained relatively obscure until a still unknown source snatched the image, removing the Time Magazine aspects, placing it into the now infamous Socialism background. No word on whether Alkhateeb is seeing any royalties from the merchandising based on his work.
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