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In the 2000s, several Mission Gráfica artists joined the San Francisco Print Collective. Producing mainly wheat-pasted street posters, their style was intentionally raw with limited color. While the SFPC responded to pressing issues, the collective also developed because of increased access to digital images, home computers, and printers coupled with a decline in the use of professional printing materials.
This DIY aesthetic is clearly present in this circus freak-show satire, which employs elements reminiscent of Victorian imagery and Monty Python to comment on the pervasive militarism of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Here, war is viewed as entertainment, with obsessive focus on technological gimmicks, rather than its brutal reality.