Rahm Roast

I've seen a few blogs post this video of Obama's speech at a 2005 Roast for Rahm Emanuel and it reminded me that I actually did some design work for that event--mainly the backdrop. (I can't take credit for the type design, which was already developed by someone at CURE.)

You see, to subsidize my cartooning habit a few years ago, I became embroiled in the seedy underworld of developing backdrops for political events around the country through a contact I had in Washington DC.

Most of it was boring and involved laying out text such as "Jobs for Americans" on huge backdrops. The Rahm job was fun: