Object number:
2010.54.621
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
Wild Dog
Maker:
Date made:
1985
Material / Technique:
Offset lithograph on paper
Dimensions:
H: 24 in, W: 17.875 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Top edge of poster has the text: "Wild Dog / 'The Wild Dog is Loose in the Streets !' / San Francisco, California Vol 1. No1", layed out like a newspaper heading, over a cartoon of the city of San Francisco and a wild dog with a pen in its mouth. Below is the text: "behind the scenes" and a cartoon depicting Diane Feinstein as Little Bo Peep. The bottom of her dress doubles as the dome of a governmental building and is lifted up to reveal police officers beating and harassing men and women, and men in suits clutching money. [The background on this poster is described by journalist Warren Hinckle: - <http://robertcrumb.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_29.html> - You've got it about right, those columns were in the Chronicle and the rack card was to herald my moving from the Chronicle to the rival Examiner. Crumb also did some editorial- cartoon type drawings for the Chronicle to accompany my columns about the absurdity of it it taking 30 cops to bust one naked woman. You should see the "Wild Dogs" poster Crumb did at the time in partnership with cartoonists Dan O'Neill and Victor Moscoso. The "Wild Dogs" poster was commissioned by the Mitchell Brothers, whose O'Farrell Street Theater, which Hunter Thompson called "The Carnegie Hall of sex in America," Feinstein was constantly raiding and where the Chambers bust occured. (Chambers before starring in the Mitchell's porn classic "Beyond the Green Door" was the cover girl model for the Ivory Snow "99 and 44/100 per cent pure" soapboxes. The poster portrays Feinstein as Little Bo Beep with a huge hoop skirt under which the porcine police are beating the shit out of everyone under her undies -- including me. The "Wild Dogs" poster was famously plastered on the marble stall walls of every bathroom, ladies and gents, in San Francisco City Hall...If you want a copy of the poster -- its included in a book I'm just completing called "Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson" to be published by Last Gasp of San Francisco in June -- (Crumb drew the scene of copy mayhem under Feinstein's hoop skirt.)... -LMC]
Concepts:
newspaper; woman; satire; police officer; politics
Places:
San Francisco; Golden Gate Bridge
Persons:
Dianne Feinstein
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