If you are still having problems viewing this message, please click here for additional help.


Daily Heller
   
June 26, 2009
 
 
 


What Were They Thinking? Whoever they were, either he, she, or it knew exactly what they were doing, or they were so blinded by indifference that they couldn't see the Rifleman through the trees--or the log. Of course, maybe it's just me (and Mirko Ilic, who found these visual tidbits), but anyone with half a pea in the old noodle should be able to see the double entendre on the Rifleman comic book. Were the actors Chuck Connors (left) and Johnny Crawford (right) unaware? And how about the Sky-Sicle (below top)? It's as obvious as that thing on your face that this is Evel and suggestive. And take a close look at the pipe-smoking French enfant (below bottom)--is perception just in the eye of beholder?

Stay tuned for more "What Were They Thinking." Better yet, send in your own candidates.







 
Steven Heller has been writing for PRINT since 1982. He is the co-chair of the MFA Designer as author program at the School of Visual Arts. For 33 years, he was an art director at The New York Times. He has authored or contributed to more than 100 books on design and popular culture. His most recent, Iron Fists: Branding the Totalitarian State (Phaidon), analyzes how major dictatorships have used graphics to propagate their ideologies.
 

You have received this email because you expressed interest in receiving updates about printmag.com, Print magazine and its related products by email. Thanks for your subscription!

You are currently subscribed as david@circlesstudio.com.

If you do not want to receive The Daily Heller, use this link.

If you would like to forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.

Entire contents copyright © 2009 F+W Media, Inc.
4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236
All rights reserved.