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Not sure I consider him “traditional art,” but I’ve always loved Wilson. He was probably my favorite cartoonist growing up.
Is there something to “get” about this image?
From the date I was thinking Vietnam, but with the ruined city on the horizon maybe it’s about mutually assured destruction / nuclear war.
Go study the vietnam war.
I’m familiar with it, but this image just doesn’t say anything to me.
The guy is an idiot? So what.
I read it more as a political win that ends in destruction isn’t a win for the grunt on the ground.
America likes to say they won the vietnam war, when in fact they lost. Thats the joke here.
