The Tijuana Taxi

Correspondent Marc García-Martinez weighs in with a brief dispatch and semiotic bon mot!

Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007
From: MARC GARCIA-MARTINEZ
Subject:tijuana taxi, bare feet, bigote, etc...
To: memo@sdsu.edu


Hey Profe Bill

Here's a zany and sad little ad from a Silver Age DC comicbook I was reading today.



Perhaps you can use it for your blog? Note the image, of course, but also the class distinctions as well in the wording. Strange shit.

Strange indeed! More strange? The driver seems to be both drunk and asleep at the same time. Viva taxis!