This is social commentary at its absolute finest. Designer Jared Moratis created this as, “a commentary about rabid Obama fan-mania coupled with his missteps as a new leader, as well as a commentary about appropriation art.” The piece is entirely hand drawn and then rendered abstract with the use of Illustrator. You can pick one up for $9 on teefury.com for the next 24 hours. Also available is a wicked print version of the piece in a slightly more morbid color scheme. Here’s a quote from the author and a picture of the print version. Enjoy!

“I wanted to do an Obama piece (along with everybody else on the planet, evidently), but since my brain has been irreparably warped by cartoons and pop-culture nonsense I simply could not realize this intent with any level of serious meaning or maturity. I was looking at some of the parody images out there, several of which were based on the popular Shepard Fairey piece” … “Most (if not all) of the parodies I came across were a bit obvious, choosing to rely on simply basing their ideas on words that rhymed with “hope”. I wanted to run in the opposite direction, so I chose to parody the parodies (as well as Fairey’s reputation for using appropriated images in his art) by turning Obama into a zombie at the risk of coming across as an Obama-hater and attracting the attention of the FBI. Also, zombies are teetering on the edge of being overexposed in pop-culture (if they haven’t already tumbled mindlessly over the edge of that pop-culture precipice). The slogan was easy, cuz what other slogan would a zombie choose for his campaign? Also “BRAINS” does not in any way rhyme with “HOPE”, yet it somehow totally does. Think about it…”