Billy Childish

These images have been published in the last two issues of stool pigeon magazine, the top image appearing an issue before the second, and we can see Childish's bold combinations of text and image becoming more direct, possibly in line with his political emotions. I Find the first reaction to this is laughter, probably more on the second image when the combination of text and image is not so subtle. not that a swastika is particularly subtle; but the beauty of texts inability to convey sarcasm and the proaganda style stragely haunting.
I find Childish treads the line between really good and really shit, and it is always impossible to tell what side hes one, but always interesting to try and find out.

Peter Kennard

Kennards internet describes his new book, @earth as " a story without words. Told in the language of photomontage, it exposes the current state of the earth, the conditions of life on it and the need to resist injustice." I find his highly doom and gloom view of the world stangely apealing. This Photomotage using the haywain demonstrates the power and stange dark humour of very simple, restrained and careful juxtapositions.