A gameshow host and hostess welcoming Contestant #3, who glimpses at us from behind a curtain short enough to reveal his lower tentacles. The host's microphone is a mushroom growing out of his shirt. Four semioticoids slither on the floor. This was set up as a tritone (black being the 3rd colour) but the brief was duotones. The latter format necessitated making the line art into 100% of the 2 colours, which was really an 80% rick black and Taylor and I thought it insufficient. The duotone thing was only an aesthetic constraint, not production, this effect being popular in 60s/70s North American print. Good duotones (and tritones) are ticklish things to tackle.

Amusing myself with vivid mental picture of Benvenuto Cellini dealing with suits trying to screw him with AI. Much rending of flesh and gnashing on thighs.
This picture has nothing to do with that, which amuses me even more.

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