THINGS COMICKAL AND RANDOM

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This is actually the first one I really ran across, and the one that started it all. I mean, seriously, how could I resist? The only text that got replaced was across the bottom, where it originally said "Keep 'em flying, Miss USA!" (I wonder why they put Miss USA in front of the French flag? Couldn't they have spangled something?)


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And, of course, I had to do the original poster. Nice and simple.




And, of course, there had to be a French one!
The original was an old WWI Credit Lyonnais poster that's kind of well nigh impenetrable, actually. The original text -- after you realize that the V's are all supposed to be U, a task made no easier by the presence of actual letters V -- is "Sousscrivez au 4e imprunt national." Underwritten by the fourth national loan. This is patriotic and inspirational? (EDIT: I just realized I made a translation mistake. Not "underwritten by" but "Subscribe to". In other words, buy war bonds.)




And then there was this one which ... I don't know, it just had to be, somehow.
Something of a side note: Looking at various poster collections, everything was all rah-rah and inspirational and all ... but the entire Careless Talk serieses were all just appalling! It almost makes you want to go back retroactively and say, "You realize that maybe 95 percent of everyone in the country didn't know anything to tell, right? Perhaps this is just a bit of overkill, maybe?"