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Explosive Magoo

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.

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14 comments posted in Cartoon Culture

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07/14/08 12:03am	Zekey says:
	….Banksy?
07/14/08 5:33am	Matthew says:
	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.
07/14/08 6:47am	Chuck R. says:
	Wow, reminds me of Peter Kuper’s work. What’s he been up to lately? :)
07/14/08 6:49am	Hal says:
	This looks like something that the British graffitti artist Banksy would do. http://www.banksy.co.uk/
07/14/08 6:57am	victorybros says:
	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/
07/14/08 8:18am	Richard says:
	Oh, Magoo! You’ve done it again!
07/14/08 8:46am	Christopher Olson says:
	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.
07/14/08 9:04am	Woodbridge says:
	It looks like John McCain.
07/14/08 9:47am	FP says:
	Is it a commentary on the success of the MR. MAGOO movie? Maybe Gene Shalit spray-painted it.
07/14/08 9:50am	Nonimus says:
	Speaking of McCain… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqMQFlV0R90
07/14/08 12:18pm	Scott Shaw! says:
	Magoo probably thinks he’s lighting the candle of a carved pumpkin Jack-o-lantern for Halloween!
07/14/08 5:14pm	Eric Angelillo says:
	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?
07/16/08 7:56am	DW says:
	Oh, the irony of it all. A Bullwinkel finding a Magoo. So ’60’s.
07/16/08 8:45am	Peter Bernard says:
	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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