Illustration for ‘Exit of Evil’. The illustration is about that it is not easy to force the morals of one part of the world upon other parts.

…Presenting you the world’s first, and only smart bomb, being too happy to go to war!

‘Miss Iran’ was one of the pinups i drew for ‘Exit of Evil’. This was an event about the Gulf war, and hosted many thinkers – asking if ‘the Axis of Evil’ was something real or fiction, and what to do now bombing was going on. The idea was ‘you don’t bomb cute girls’ an ironic note on the fact that the VS were bombing real people with power politic reasons rather than anything else.

This may be as hard to understand for you as it was for us then. President Bush Jr of the VS talked of an ‘Axis of Evil’ consisting of Iraq, Iran and ehm, North Korea. Nobody knew what the link between the three was and how this ‘evil empire’ worked. And if there was such a thing – what would you do? How many people, in percentage, need to be ‘evil’ to start a war against such a country?

‘Miss Iran’ was one of the pinups i drew for ‘Exit of Evil’. This was an event about the Gulf war, and hosted many thinkers – asking if ‘the Axis of Evil’ was something real or fiction, and what to do now bombing was going on. The idea was ‘you don’t bomb cute girls’ an ironic note on the fact that the VS were bombing real people with power politic reasons rather than anything else.

Later they added Cuba, Syria and Libya. However sad this view on the world might be, i’d love to draw Miss Cuba, Miss Syria and Miss Libya – I hope one day I will find time or a client who needs this 😉

Illustrations for an event at the Milkyway, Amsterdam. US president Bush jr  spoke of Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan as the ‘Axis of Evil’ and would soon be bombing. There was a night with discussions about the idea of a supposed ‘axis of evil’ Was it there? Was bombing a way to deal with it? They idea came from my client Rachida Azough: ‘you don’t bomb cute girls’.

Obviously, the pin ups were a satirical way of saying we’re talking about humans, not ‘evil forces’. The logo of this event was the ‘smart bomb’.

I drew ‘Miss Iran’ at the beginning of the Gulf War. I was asked to do the identity for an event called ‘The Exit of Evil’ and even asked to draw ‘pin ups’ from the ‘evil countries’. We tried to make use of humour to create a public reflection: the drawings seem to say ‘Who in the world is going to bomb cute girls?’ – which was my way of saying don’t forget the people you attack are humans.