Prominently featured in a Season 1 Episode 4 at Fangtasia, the vampire bar, was a painting of George W. Bush sucking blood from the neck of the Statue of Liberty.
The image was created by comic book artist and illustrator Alex Ross and ran on the cover of The Village Voice in October 26, 2004 to accompany an article by Nixonland author Rick Perlstein. At the time, the image struck some on the right as offensive.
A query about HBO’s use of the image sent through Mr. Ross’ site was answered by Sal Abbinanti, a comic illustrator and editor who wrote:
“We send posters and files of images to production companies all the time. (Upon their request) HBO asked us for some images quite a while ago. Wasn’t sure what it was going to be used for.”
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I can hardly wait to see what they might come up with for B.H. Obama. OMG that would be so cool if they would do something…. you don’t think they only do these things for the Republicans do you? Gosh I hope not….. the Democrats deserve a lot of fun too. ;-)
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