Rock the Bells: Poster

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Tyler Perry: I Can Do Bad All By Myself Poster (First Look)

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Disney's Princess & the Frog Poster

Disney gives little black girls something they've been wanting forever; a story starring a little girl princess made in their own likeness. This will be a great addition to the Disney vaults and make a lot of ebullient brown babies. It would have been interesting to see Kasi Lemmons, Suzanne DePasse, Tyler Perry or Spike Lee fill this void first. But I guess they were busy and it's not really their magical dancing cup of tea. So I guess it was really up to me to get my version out first.



My little black princess animated story involves an overgrown boy dressed like a girl. Her name is Princess Mabea. (S)He's a foul-mouthed, gun-totting, lovable little trouble-maker. Mabea always shows up at family reunions, cook-outs & funerals. There she finds a veritable buffet of stereotypical characters which he/she inevitably finds alt with and from there mad-capped hilarity ensues. Our lovable little pig-tail tressed Mabea is incorrigible and can't seem to stop her little ten year old self from getting in everyone's business and "bussin' caps" in asses and running from the "po-po!"

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'Precious' Movie Teaser Poster

Once again a movie teaser poster associated with a Tyler Perry associated film makes me smile. There is a lot of great thinking going on the design of these posters. But actually when I think about it and really break down the imagery it's powerfully moving. The over all visage of the young woman is cracked, damaged and torn. As if it were made of something hard but brittle and almost perfectly & purposely shattered to satisfy some other hurt. Note the figure ground reversal that the crack emanates from, it forms a hand as if to say someone's touch was the epicenter of all this damage. It's so simple and so profound all at once. The poster makes such a massive statement about so many lives in Black America and as well as the entire world. Deep... now I done gone and made tears fall in my keyboard.


The Director Lee Daniels, cast and crew rip it. See the keyboard damaging movie trailer here.




The poster looks to be very much inspired by this Saul Bass classic design for the 'Anatomy of a Murder,' the Otto Preminger film. Which also in turn inspired the Spike Lee movie 'Clockers' poster? For which the famed designer threatened to sue.

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M'Obama Art

Wordy Obama

FrO'bama

Boom Box 'bama

Toon'Obama

Blob Obama
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KIss 101

A different take on a radio station advertising.

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