For editorial cartoonist Steve Breen, the proper medium for his message rolled in on the Gulf tide. He used actual tarballs from the BP oil spill to color his cartoons.
Breen, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists for The San Diego Union-Tribune, used actual oil-spill tarballs, thinned with gas-station petrol, to create several works documenting the oil-well disaster, the Comic Riffs blog reports.
"I didn't know if I could even find a beach with the alleged tarballs before cleanup workers got there," Breen says. "Then I didn't know if I could transport the tarballs. Then, if I could get them back, I didn't even know if I could mix them so I could paint with them, or if the oil would show up all."
He made it happen, and the editors loved them. Reaction has been positive, and an Alabama museum wants to display the works.
Elsewhere: Groening, Lynch and other alt-comics veterans
Follow CNPA