UNITED WE STAND

THERE WAS SERIOUS domestic
opposition to the Bush administration’s
desire for war in Iraq, but it was quickly
labeled anti-American. While some artists
struggled to find images that would reflect
their thinking without seeming unpatriotic,
Barry Blitt, who still holds Canadian
citizenship, didn’t seem overly concerned
about his patriotism being called into
question: He drew all the opponents of
the United States embracing one another
while burning American flags, with of
course a beret-wearing, cheese-eating sur-
render monkey in the front row (right).

“WHEN THINGS ARE incredibly seri-
ous you have to couch it in a different way,”
says Anita Kunz, who believes that “you
can’t really put blood and guts and gore on
a magazine cover.” In the sketch she handed
in when George Bush ordered the invasion
of Iraq, Kunz shows Bush literally putting
his head in the sand (far left). Meanwhile,
in response to the same event, Ana Juan
finds a way to paint the blood and gore
(opposite). Barry Blitt imagines Rumsfeld,
Bush, Cheney, and Rice getting their kicks
from watching the bombs drop away (left).
Blitt says he was eager to do a color finish
so he could highlight Condoleezza’s dress
with pink.

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