[kj] KJ logo

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

My ideql Joke shirt would be the cover of "Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!" 
(Nazis saluting the Pope) print on front of shirt, with KJ 
hammer-and-sickle logo on back. It'd fuck people around a good deal.


-Oliver


Alexander Smith wrote:

> The `Joke have always flirted with communist imagery (although, 

> honestly, I'm not sure exactly why).

>

> When I was over in ol' Blighty in `05 for the XXV shows, Andy Misera 

> and I swung by Malicious Towers, and the great Mike Coles showed us 

> some artwork he *had* been working on for the band before all 

> communications were cut off again (because of Big Life? Fuck, who 

> remembers!) In any event, one of the images -- which I think he'd 

> intended to use for the single art for "Seeing Red" -- was a female 

> Red Chinese Army brigade of rifle-wielding dancers. It would've looked 

> AMAZING on a t-shirt.

>

> Frankly speaking, despite the fact THAT I STILL WANT THAT POSTER, 

> BARATHY, I was never that impressed with the artwork that went into 

> the XXV Gathering shows/album/DVD (i.e. the shell-brandishing, gasmask 

> wearing jesters and the train). 

>

> In terms of `Joke logos, I still quite like the REVELATIONS ribbon design.

>

> Alex in NYC

>