The Post Punk New Wave Super Friends by Butcher Billy
From Brazilian designer known as "Butcher Billy" comes this spectacular homage to both 80s music.musicians (which I love) and comicbooks (another love, characters from DC Comics used here) with the result in what he terms "The Post Punk New Wave Super Friends", and I am simply loving it! And that fact that they are available as prints on Society6, makes me a very happy (and soon to be financially poorer) individual :)
"What makes a pop culture icon?
Would it be the effect of their contribution to a cultural movement? Is it the way they impact the time and the generation they are targeting? Or just how their exposure constitutes a defining characteristic of a given society or era?
As a child of the 80's I was heavily influenced by everything from saturday morning cartoons on TV to the music coming from the radio. Ian Curtis or Johnny Rotten are as iconic to me as Superman or Batman. Real people or imaginary characters, the incorruptible ideals of perfect superheroes or the human flaws and desires sometimes so desperately depicted in song lyrics - all of those influences affect us to the point of defining our character and personality, career paths and life choices.
The references we are exposed and specifically the ones we choose to absorb make us who we are. Who are your heroes?" ~said Butcher Billy.
Billy is known for an earlier series of Real Life personalities vs Supervillains, known as "The Legion of Real Life Supervillains - where Osama Bin Laden was Green Goblin, Chairman Mao was depicted as "Darkseid", and George Bush Jr was "Two-Face" LOL
(Thanks to Kloer Gefes for the pointer)
