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Read more: https://www.historyireland.com/che-guevara-jim-fitzpatrick-and-the-making-of-an-icon/
TIL that Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick created the famous – and somewhat ubiquitous – red, black and white Che Guevara image. Fitzpatrick, aged 16, met Guevara in Ireland too. Fitzpatrick began distributing for free, stating ‘I literally wanted it to breed like rabbits. I wanted it to spread.’
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It’s quite ironic considering Che got his start as a brutal prison guard where he abused homosexual prisoners that Castro’s revolution imprisoned. Che was so damn brutal and crazy that the Castro brothers sent him to Bolivia just to get rid of him.
I came across this fact accidentally whilst exploring Jim Fitzpatrick’s beautiful Alphonse Mucha / Art Nouveau inspired works, featuring Celtic imagery and motifs etc. Quite remarkable!
The world will be better off when people stop romanticizing and idolizing a mass murderer, racist and homophobic sob.
He also did the cover for Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak record, so yeah…. pretty cool!
Fuk Che Guevara …
TIL Jim Fitzpatrick thought it was cool to proliferate the image of one of the worst humans of the 20th century. What a loser.
what a fucking moron
Che Guevara hated gays.