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Explosive Magoo
by amid
July 13, 2008 10:57 pm


Animator and eagle-eyed Brew reader Celia Bullwinkel spotted this faded sidewalk stencil graffiti of Mr. Magoo planting a bomb. The piece is in Greenwich Village. Are there more of these? Does anybody the story behind this image? Click on the image below for a larger version.

Magoo graffiti

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Zekey says:
07/14/08  12:03am

….Banksy?

 
Matthew says:
07/14/08  5:33am

Clearly a comment on the short-sightedness of terrorism… or not, as the case may be.

If it’s a Banksy, Celia should’ve chiseled it out.

 
Chuck R. says:
07/14/08  6:47am

Wow, reminds me of Peter Kuper’s work. What’s he been up to lately? :)

 
Hal says:
07/14/08  6:49am

This looks like something that the British graffitti artist Banksy would do.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

 
victorybros says:
07/14/08  6:57am

Definitely not Banksy. That’s not a “well known” stencil by me. The more famous graffiti Magoo painted trains in New York City – Here are some on Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=magoo+graffiti&m=text

And a random piece that has a Mr. Magoo character done fairly recently:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/earnest70six/2379846636/

 
Richard says:
07/14/08  8:18am

Oh, Magoo! You’ve done it again!

 
Christopher Olson says:
07/14/08  8:46am

It almost looks like a graphic swiped from one of Nintendo’s Game & Watch titles. I can’t place it though. If anyone here has ever played a Game & Watch game before, they’ll know what I’m talking about.

 
Woodbridge says:
07/14/08  9:04am

It looks like John McCain.

 
FP says:
07/14/08  9:47am

Is it a commentary on the success of the MR. MAGOO movie?

Maybe Gene Shalit spray-painted it.

 
Nonimus says:
07/14/08  9:50am
 
Scott Shaw! says:
07/14/08  12:18pm

Magoo probably thinks he’s lighting the candle of a carved pumpkin Jack-o-lantern for Halloween!

 
Eric Angelillo says:
07/14/08  5:14pm

That’s funny.

I spotted a stencil of Snow White with an assault rifle not long ago in my hometown of Montreal. I posted a pic of it a few weeks ago:

http://ericangelillo.blogspot.com/2008/05/more-bonzai-bonzai-related-pics.html

Could they be related?

 
DW says:
07/16/08  7:56am

Oh, the irony of it all.
A Bullwinkel finding a Magoo.
So ’60’s.

 
Peter Bernard says:
07/16/08  8:45am

In this version, there’s something above Magoo’s bomb:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eatsdirt/477667357/
??? What is he blowing up???

 
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