{"id":453,"date":"2012-11-24T00:20:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T04:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekrap.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2026-03-02T02:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:38:51","slug":"the-tattoo-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekrap.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"The Tattoo Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This entry courtesy of Herbert P. Zornow, my Pop (text by myself).<\/p>\n<p>The New Yorker magazine recently published a cover featuring Mitt Romney in a parody of Normal Rockwell&#8217;s famous painting &#8220;The Tattoo Artist&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/romney_tattoo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-455\" title=\"romney_tattoo\" src=\"http:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/romney_tattoo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/romney_tattoo1.jpg 465w, https:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/romney_tattoo1-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the original:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rockwell_tattoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-466\" title=\"rockwell_tattoo\" src=\"http:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rockwell_tattoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rockwell_tattoo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rockwell_tattoo-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Observer pointed out that this parody had been done before, in 2005, in their article on Angelina Jolie:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jolie_tattoo2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-463\" title=\"jolie_tattoo\" src=\"http:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jolie_tattoo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jolie_tattoo2.png 600w, https:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/jolie_tattoo2-264x300.png 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not so fast, said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and editorial cartoonist R.J. Matson. \u00a0Although it came later (2005), this version, featured presidential candidate John McCain and is thus closer to being a direct rip-off:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/matson.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-459\" title=\"matson\" src=\"http:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/matson.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/matson.gif 331w, https:\/\/ekrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/matson-270x300.gif 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As noted in a comment in the online version of the New Yorker, it is ironic that Romney &#8220;replaces American sailor in the original illustration, especially since Romney clan has no record of ever serving in the US military, including his five able-bodied sons.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This entry courtesy of Herbert P. 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The New Yorker magazine recently published a cover featuring Mitt Romney in a parody of Normal Rockwell&#8217;s famous painting &#8220;The Tattoo Artist&#8221;: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ekrap.com\/?p=453\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,104,102],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-mitt-romney","tag-norman-rockwell"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Tattoo Artist - eKrap - Roy Zornow<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Tattoo Artist - eKrap - Roy Zornow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This entry courtesy of Herbert P. 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