Before delving into research regarding oil and fracking artwork, I had wanted to write about the film, Anchorman 2 (with Will Ferrell) that intentionally makes jokes about British Petroleum being reliable and one’s “best friend” to the audience at Sea World. It’s supposed to be a joke because the movie takes place in the 70’s. Instead, though, I looked into artwork regarding BP and found a whole website dedicated to BP comics.
I really like the use of oil sludge covering the BP CEO and calling them “bs” while turning their logo from green to brown. This is a good use of color scheme, because BP is anything but green — so they don’t deserve to have a bright green logo! The use of the dialogue blurb that ends with “are we done filming yet?” signifies deception to the public from BP — that they lie for the media to save their own name.
I love these comics because they are easy to understand for people who do not know anything about the dangers of fracking. Most people have not read the readings by Bigelow and Swinehart enough to understand how oil spills and fracking affect the world around them. I think it is very important to have artists depict these dangers through art such as this, and provide resources so that others can view them. It is surely a way to spread the word to people who are uninformed or even misinformed about fracking. It’s also really important to show larger corporations that we are not stupid: that we are in on the games they play and won’t be fooled anymore!
