Post #138772 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Feb 1, 2005 6:33 PM

On 2005-02-01 09:45, DawnTiki wrote:

It would be really very sad if that by someone who admired his mugs, finds out he was gay and all of a sudden no longer found value in his mugs or other contributions to the Tiki world.

Maybe I was worried about that, but then I am always the first to say that an artist should never censor or alter his work to meet the level of the ignorant and intolerant.
You are right, if anyone has a problem with that, it is really THEIR problem.

And ironically so, the fact that the SCA mugs seem so "flamboyant" looking is not, as the clichee would prescribe, due to Gabe's doing, but Stephen Crane's, who, as Gabe told me, was asking for MORE and BRIGHTER colors when presented with the first sketches. Gabe was more sensitive to the original color palette of the Islands, but followed his boss' orders. And voila, we got the Strawberry Head Ku mug!