Beach Your Vacation On The Gulf Coast (Mind The Scattered Tar Balls)

In my cartoon class I was assigned to create a full-color cartoon that could accompany a Salon.com article (excerpted below) called Meet the oil spill tourism queen. Here’s my solution.


Meet the oil spill tourism queen

By Mary Elizabeth Williams (Extracted from Salon.com)

It's no easy job putting a happy face on one of the worst environmental disasters in history, but somebody's got to do it. And so, Alabama Gulf Coast tourism rep Rebecca Wilson, we salute you. ...Wilson has been diligently rah-rahing for her home turf in a series of surreal YouTube clips.

Doing her best to downplay the crisis, Wilson cheerily announces, "Our weather has been perfect, and oil impact has been less this weekend! We are still seeing some scattered tar balls wash ashore"...

Click here to read the entire article and see the video on Salon.com. Rebecca Wilson is doing all she can to help businesses in the area. I salute her. But still, it’s weird.

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