Sunday, January 7, 2007

Merging the Two Most Popular Icons in Pop Culture


Photo by John Copleston

It is universally acknowledged in academic circles that the most critically and financial successful "properties" of these twentieth (nay twenty-first) centuries are these: The Motorcycle Diaries and The Vagina Monologues. They both share the #1 ranking, besting out the Indiana Jones and Die Hard trilogies by a great amount.

In a brilliant maneuver, much like the TV executive who combined Laugh In and The Beverly Hillbillies to produce Hee-Haw, I have combined these two wildly successful properties to great success.

The Motorcycle Vagina Dialogues (TMVD) is the story of Che Guevara and his buddy Alberto Granado as they travel the world, telling people stories about their lady business in graphic detail. Yes, these two men are not women. But the reason they have lady business is one of the great reveals of the work, so I dare not mention here.

As the source material is a non-fiction book, a play, and I suppose some films, which medium did I choose for TMVD? A Clay Fumetti! To the two of you who do not know the medium, this is essentially a comic book, but instead of drawn images, each frame is molded in modelling clay and photographed. The photographs are lettered with amusing dialogue and printed using conventional "paper" presses. These printed pages are then "read" or "looked at" by the public, who use currency to buy them at Borders Express. Do you understand what I am saying?

Thank you for the success of TMVD, as a man is now at my door ready to give me an over-sized cheque commemorating the financial windfall of the project, even through I have just announced it moments ago in these pages.

Carry on!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

If I'm not mistaken, Alberto Granado has already been depicted in Clay Fumetti. Didn't he make a cameo as Sluggo's beeotch in the episode where Mr. Bill gets "scared straight"? Maybe you can re-cycle some of that material.

Greg Rice said...

Thanks for the tip.

My first project was the complete works of Francis Bacon in clay fumetti, and that was really just cobbled together clips of Davey and Goliath. So I am familiar with the fine art of "stealing other people's material as my own."

Did anyone ever tell you that you RULE!

Anonymous said...

Clay Fumetti lost to Ruben Stoddardini, fair and square. So, why would anyone use him? Besides, RS is more maleable, and you will find there is much more of him/it.

Greg Rice said...

I once made a comic entirely from the corpse of Kelley Clarksonni.

Is that how I play this game?

Anonymous said...

Yes.

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