K.F.O

Danny, 11 months ago

Ahhhh the detail.
Love this.
Those eyes!

craig scutt, 11 months ago

This reminds me of a character in 2000AD—can’t remember the name … nice beard ;)

thickblackoutline, 11 months ago

oh yes! the detail, such a great piece!

kym Thomas, 11 months ago

i love the stars and stripes

sjem, 11 months ago

Even betterer close up.

GODD, 11 months ago

THIS IS SIMPLY LOVELY WELL DONE SCOTT!

mugshot, 11 months ago

I kinda feel sorry for the soldier that takes orders from a deluded CO and is left to face what he or she has done for the rest of their lives

Scott Robinson, 11 months ago

Me too.

Helen Bascom, 10 months ago

This is great!

Dave Moilanen, 10 months ago

Wonderful!

John Douglas, 10 months ago

well done – powerful image says a lot. nice linework too!

Susan Grissom, 10 months ago

Awesome

mick8585, 10 months ago

so true…......................................

Helen Bascom, 10 months ago

I still love this. Wish I could favorite it twice.

Nausinora, 9 months ago

Poignant

Gordon MacK, 9 months ago

I love this! Its subtle yet blatant all at once!

Philip Rogan, 9 months ago

a gi hobo! Know who wudda thunk it? Nice one.

Discaciate, 9 months ago

WOW!
Super piece of artwork.

Magda Beda, 5 months ago

bahaha. oh man this is pricless.

Kenny Gulley Jr., 5 months ago

jeez thats the rep we have now huh

Michael Walton, about 1 month ago

this is great, nice work

Dylan DeLosAng..., about 1 month ago

The name you are looking for craig scutt is ‘Rogue Trooper’. Good work Alex!

Luke Hallam, about 1 month ago

sadly, I think all is going to plan on that front… Great commentary Scott.

Brandy Bentz, about 1 month ago

ha ha… love it!

Plynlimon, about 1 month ago

Nice one….I want this on a tee shirt

David Roman, about 1 month ago

Hey Scott nice image of an American solder if thats your taste! I find it sad that we have to post this type of art on RB for attention!
So why don’t you be as equal in your distaste of America and make a image of what was done to the Aboriginals by your people too! Then its a fair trade off!
If you wanna be fair then lets make fun of the whole world!
But I tell you while Americans are dying so you can have your suv or any type of car to drive or anything thing made with an oil product you sit back an snicker at lives lost so you and your country can live a good life at the expense of the American solders!Makes me really sad to think that your mind is set on only the surface and not the big picture and who’s lives are being lost so you can live in freedom ! I don’t agree with all that my country does but I don’t think your cartoon is one that needs to be seen here on RB its hateful! While my country men are dying you sit at your desk in comfort because of their lives lost!
So come on your the man post a cartoon of some of the stuff you did to get your country and what your still doing to your native people!

MKWhite, about 1 month ago

This is a completely bogus image and it shows the lack of knowledge and respect you have. Congrats on something completely classless.

Dayonda, about 1 month ago

If you didn’t notice it already, this has been featured on RB’s Home Page.
While I don’t appreciate the sentiment at the same time I kinow it’s true for at least some of us in the US. And I’m sure you’d be glad to see that it’s Featured.
Congratulations—it is well done. The eyes have that “Thousand-mile Stare” which says, “I’ve seen and done too much.”

Dayonda, about 1 month ago

If you didn’t notice it already, this has been featured on RB’s Home Page.
While I don’t appreciate the sentiment at the same time I kinow it’s true for at least some of us in the US, I’m sure you’d be glad to see that it’s Featured.
Congratulations—it is well done.

Clinton Tyree KM@, about 1 month ago

David Roman, you should have a look at what teh US is still doing to its indigenous…

But it’s good that you recognise the function of political get: to get attention… for the issue at hand!

Well, personally I can’t see what the controversy is, the US Gvt forces poor people into military service as their only way out of poverty, and then send them off to Iraq to kill poor people there, so that rich people can get richer.

Does anyone have any better explanation why 600,000 plus civilians have died in Iraq? Why no sanctions were ever leveled against the dictatorships og Kuwait, Saudi,, Egypt, Pakistan or against the nuclear weapons violators Israel?

Fine if you don’t want to be educated, but hey if you are going to crap from the sidelines, then tray adding some facts to your POV.

And I do hope you aren’t playing the “I’m on the side of the troops and you are not ” game. That would dreadfully exploitation, and plain wrong.

In the UK the biggest anti-war movement was started by Military Families… and Sindy Sheehan in the US has mobilised a lot of military support. Military families in teh UK have tried have Blair prosecuted for war crimes.

People are voting with their feet out the military in the UK like never before… I have a family member serving in Helmand.

To some of us the situation is more than “armchair”.

Jeremy Jones, about 1 month ago

@ Clinton…..the U.S. Government Forces “Poor People” into Military service??? Thats why the United States GOVT. is an entirely “VOLUNTARY” Military…....

GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT…....

Dayonda, about 1 month ago

Congratulations on having this fine work Featured on the RED BUBBLE HomePage! 25 July 2008

While I honestly don’t appreciate the sentiment, at the same time I kinow it’s true for some of us in the US. And I’m sure you’d be glad to see that it’s Featured. And it is well done. The eyes have that “Thousand-mile Stare” which says, “I’ve seen and done too much.”

Dayonda, about 1 month ago

With RB up and down all day, I didn’t realize I’d congratulated you twice now. Well, lucky you, I guess! lol

iGo BoiNG, about 1 month ago

great stuff

Scott Robinson in reply to David Roman’s comment, about 1 month ago

David,

While I appreciate you sharing your opinions with me, I feel you`ve mis-read this work. I don`t have a particular distaste for America, but I do have strong feeling about the reasons behind so many people dying.

Just for clarifications sake, this is not a shot at the soldiers (from all willing nations, not just America), but rather a comment about the diminishing support for the continued war effort, the image of a soldier being used as a symbol for the American government, as from my point of view, it`s the most common picture that America gets presented to me as in the media, and it did seem to me to be the American government being most the most vocal in searching for support after the WMD`s that initiated the initial incursion were not found.

Now, what`s this trade-off you speak of? Am I not free to express any opinion of mine in anyway I see fit unless the country I live in has a totally clean slate?

I care very little what you seem to think of or about me, nor will I “man up” for the sake of offending you. I created this work to clarify my feeling and to promote dialogue on this subject, and the conversation above seems to show that it`s been somewhat successful.

The fact that you hate it does not make it hateful.

Scott Robinson in reply to MKWhite’s comment, about 1 month ago

Maybe so, but I had a point behind creating it.
Or maybe I`m just not a sunset & macro photography type of guy.

David Roman, about 1 month ago

Your art was nice but the topic was hurtful to a lot of people on RB and your answer to me smacks of arrogance and thats expected based on your displaying an American flag on a sholders leg!
But what gets me is that you seem to forget that there were many countrys asking for someone to step in an go to war and as usual its the Americans that step forward!
I don’t think the war was just and honest and I don’t think we have any right to invade someone’s country for our own profit! And like you I am angry!
But what I am apposed to is the way you decided to handle it with just the US flag when there are other supporters in the war!
You say the US is the loudest but you dont know whats going on behind closed doors that other countrys are saying in support of the US!
Seems like your last government was standing right there with GWB in support so why not have 2 flags on that leg and what about the British put there flag there too!
And the list gos on!
Most country’s want to benefit from the efforts of the lives of US solders while they sit back and say oh those nasty Americans at it again!
So this is my take your cartoon was nice but you had room for a few more flags if your gonna point fingers!
And as for my feelings about you?? I have none your an artist whos work I enjoy but who’s making a point but leaving out all the players and forgetting about the life’s and family members here on RB who lost loved ones in the war so he can be seen! Like I said before what’s going on in your own back yard I think your government was just as supportive as mine in this war!!??? Case closed

Samantha Thompson, about 1 month ago

I’d kill for a coffee about now, can you do me with a sign please?

Juilee Pryor, about 1 month ago

brilliant!

sjem, about 1 month ago

So many exclamation marks.

I have a few spares here :

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BrainCandy, about 1 month ago

David,
“But I tell you while Americans are dying so you can have your suv or any type of car to drive or anything thing made with an oil product you sit back an snicker at lives lost so you and your country can live a good life at the expense of the American solders!”
Thanks for the clarification!
For a moment I thought the war was to rid Iraq of nuclear weapons, later to rid Iraq of Al-Quaida, later to rid Iraq of Saddam. As it turns out it is for oil! I would have never thought! Thanks again.

raae- Ministress of Public Domain Madness, about 1 month ago

You have an svu? That just makes your art so much cooler.

raae- Ministress of Public Domain Madness, about 1 month ago

AND in regards to all the fuss going on…

Congratulations Scott for putting this out there. It is such an idiotic contradiction when ‘people’ talk about fighting for freedom and then slam others down for having a different opinion, or one they don’t take the time to understand.

And while i’m pointing out contradictions in comments… apparently our ‘good lives’ are the result of American Soldiers (no mention of any other countries giving us suvs).. but when a negative statement is made it should refer to ALL countries? Not that that part is important.. it just made me giggle slightly, plus wonder were all these suvs come from and why i don’t have one. (But i will soon with all the public domain images im stealing and making billions of dollars from) And the remark about what WE do to our native people from an American is the pot calling the kettle black. (pun intended)

I think its a wonderful image because it makes us think. And i can say that from the perspective of someone who is an Australian, with friends in the Australian army, loved ones (American) who have fought in Iraq..

Looking at the image as a whole.. the look on his face, the slumped shoulders, the isolation, and a flag that does fuck all to support his situation… it speaks volumes about reality and the harshness of it all. Stuck in a loose loose situation and unable to make personal decisions without harsh consequences. That’s what i take from this image.

There are endless ways to interpret it. Thanks for putting it out there. It’s an issue that seems to be forgotten as time moves on, meanwhile those guys are still fighting.

Regardless of if the concept of this image is hated or loved, it’s real and it’s out here to be interpreted. I think its pretty obvious to anyone who takes the time to really think that you’re not taking the piss out of America.