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Swipe File: Bryan Hitch And The Strangerer (UPDATE)

Published Wed, 10 Jun 2015 11:00:42 -0500

Last updated Wed, 10 Jun 2015 13:05:23 -0500

Poster for The Strangerer, a new play by Mickle Maher, for Capital T Theatre in Austin, Texas, a mash-up of the 2004 U.S. Presidential debate and Albert Camus' The Stranger – with Ken Webster as John Kerry, Robert Pierson as George W. Bush, and Jason Phelps as Jim Lehrer. Directed by Mark Pickell.

And Bryan Hitch's George W Bush from The Ultimates...

UPDATE: And the original…

N362522 02: Republican presidential hopeful Texas Gov. George W. Bush jokes with photographers, Thursday evening, Jan. 6, 2000, prior to the Republican debates at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. (Pool Photo)

In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox. We trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself? If you are unable to do so, please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. The Swipe File doesn't judge, it's interested more in the process of creation, how work influences other work, how new work comes from old, and sometimes how the same ideas emerge simultaneously, as if their time has just come. The Swipe File was named after the advertising industry habit where writers and artist collect images and lines they admire to inspire them in their work. It was swiped from the Comic Journal who originally ran this column, as well as the now defunct Swipe Of The Week website.

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