Oct 5th 2012 By: Joseph Hughes

Parting Shot: 'Big Bird No More' By Francesco Francavilla [Art]

After the infamous Clint Eastwood vs. Chair incident at this summer's Republican National Convention, artist Francesco Francavilla created a clever piece of art to ~~mock~~ commemorate the incident. Now, following Mitt Romney's debate comments regarding his plans for defunding PBS, the home of Big Bird (and debate moderator Jim Lehrer), Francavilla has created a new piece of art, paying homage to John Romita Sr.'s famous image from Amazing Spider-Man #50 while having a bit of fun with the exchange between Romney and Lehrer, who is widely considered to have done a wonderful job as moderator and has absolutely no critics.

John Romita's original on the left, Francesco Francavilla's homage on the right (click images to enlarge)

For more of the award-winning artist's work, check out Francavilla's blog.

Tags: big bird - BigBird - Francesco Francavilla - FrancescoFrancavilla - jim lehrer - JimLehrer - Mitt Romney - MittRomney - parting shot - PartingShot - pbs - politics - presidential debate - PresidentialDebate - sesame street - SesameStreet

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crdavis7777

i am so sick of OBAMA,,,,,,HE THINKS HE IS THE KING AND CAN DO ANYTHING HE WANTS.........

October 11 2012 at 5:01 PM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down Reply

Carol Harvey

Another liberal lie. I saw the debate and heard Romney confront Obama about saying he was going to cut off this funding and that funding and Romney told him that was simply not true. Romney wants to have regulations in place for accountability purposes. Without accountability you have someone making rash and foolish decisions and basically going off like a loose cannon.

October 11 2012 at 2:41 PM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down Reply

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m0ccha

The guy with off-shore accounts is going to hold people accountable... riiiight.

October 12 2012 at 10:22 AM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down Reply

Roscoe

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Yes, yes, Big Bird and Public TeeVee is taking all the money, not the wars. No, there's ALWAYS money for war.

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October 11 2012 at 12:24 PM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down Reply

m0ccha

Mitt Romney has proven to flip-flop on every single issue, and then gives some vague answer for how he plans to solve the nations problems. It's pretty damn obvious that this guy plans on doing anything that he can just to get what he feels he's entitled to. But Republicans will just blindly follow their party even if they actually disagree with everything this douche stands for. I just don't understand where this blind loyalty comes from.

October 10 2012 at 10:54 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down Reply

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Carol Harvey

Romney was very clear in what his plans were so maybe you were a little hazy in your understanding. That is, if you have even listen to Romney instead of listening to Obama's lying commercials. I have always said liberals and Democrats follow him blindly. There is NO way you could think this man will do any better than he has already done. He promised to cut the deficit in half, but instead he doubled it by adding another 5 TRILLION $$ to it by borrowing money from China. He invested in some 'green ' research that just happened to be done by a person that contributed to his campaign. So he gives the "Greene" folks over 90 BILLION $$ and guess what? Most of them have gone out of business. That 90 million would have hired over 250 teachers. He borrows money like it doesn't have to be paid back. We need someone that knows how to handle money instead of someone that spends friviloiusly. Obama is just a celebrity that is not sure what to do so he smiles and promises you the moon and you believe whatever he propmises, no questions asked. Who do you think will pay it back in the long run? The government? NO, You and I will. Maybe if he didn't give away so much we would bein better sha[pe than we are. I am thinking of the 40 Billiojn $$ he promised Karzai to rebuild the Afghan Army. 40 BILLION $$ Why did he do this when 40 Billion$$ would have helped us so much? My guess is that you didn't know that. look it up and read for yourself. This is just the tip of the iceberg what this man has done that makes no sense.

October 11 2012 at 2:41 PM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down Reply

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m0ccha

You're talking about those teachers that are living those lavish lives in their one room apartments and cushy benefits. Why should we help those union snobs? You also mentioned that Romney is very clear about what he plans on doing, yet you never bothered to mention a single part of that plan. And compared to the deficit of the 10 year war that Bush started, I doubt that Obama can be blamed for this country's debt woes. He has to try to support the formation of an Afghan army because Bush put him there in the first place. The truth of the matter is that the deficit will never be paid.. EVER. But maybe if they continue to renew the Bush tax cuts for the "job creators", who keep promising to create jobs if they are extended, but do not come through and then blame Obama for the unemployment problems, everything will turn up aces. But if you're referring to cutting the financing to PBS as the one specific answer to fixing the economy, then keep on dreaming.

October 12 2012 at 10:20 AM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down

Dustin Birek

Take that "the man"...I guess.

October 07 2012 at 1:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

POW!

There is a definite bias on this website. I'm starting to visit it less and less.

October 07 2012 at 12:54 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Reply

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Mr. Komodo

Looking at the cropped image from the front page, the absolute first thing that sprang to mind was Elmo's voice saying, "This Street is afraid of me. I've seen it's true face."

And it was terrifying.

October 07 2012 at 11:45 AM Report abuse Permalink +7 rate up rate down Reply

The Larry Dallas

Carroll Spinney is looking pretty ripped in this piece.

October 07 2012 at 12:38 AM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down Reply

Sarah

You guys are such snots. I don't like Romney. Not a big fan of Obama either and can't justify voting for him again. But the Left is full of so many little whiny babies. We don't live in a happy magic world where every nostalgic thing from your childhood 20-30 years ago can get endless funding. Francavilla is a great artist but things like this make me think less of him. If I had it my way, neither one of these candidates would win. They are both sellouts. But at least if Romney wins that will piss you snotty baby hipsters off, and that would be fun to see.

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