Pigpen Wants You

An homage to James Montgomery Flagg's infamous 1917, "Uncle Sam Wants You For U.S. Army" recruitment poster, I designed this poster to drastically change the tone from a political recruitment-to-war statement to one focused on peace and unity through rock and roll music. Using Flagg's pointing-at-the-viewer tactic as a way to hold the viewer directly responsible, I illustrated none other than The Grateful Dead's, Ron 'Pigpen' McKernan, the distinguished blues/rock ambassador, in place of Uncle Sam.