Yes, yes - I’m going for the easy joke with the headline, but it definitely suits this link. Apparently an artist named Marc Newport has a gallery showing going on in Seattle that features pop-arted up comic book covers, crocheted super hero costumes, gay porno stars and Playboy trading cards. It’s definitely some different stuff; something you’d expect may have come from an artist like Andy Warhol if he were still around today.

Freedom Bedcover, a quilt made of Batman comic book pages suggests that it might offer strength when tired or provide warmth from cold. But its irony lies in the fact that it would not protect or shelter its owner from anything—despite the depictions of super heroes representing strength and power. Pumped-up cartoon characters are just a few of the personas from which the artist learned about masculinity. The bedcover piece is based on a tradition of quilts given to a young man as he attains adulthood and secures social and economic independence from his father. The artist considers this piece an expression of his independence from the male role models that may have provided preparations for his transition into manhood. The artist explains, “It is both protective and commemorative, and neither at the same time.”

Click the image of Batman and Catwoman to read the article, and click on “Available Work” once there to view the art. Be warned - not all of the images in the gallery are work safe.

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