As initially conceived and as completed, the piece combines two layers, a black-and-white foreground cartoon and a color background graphic. An entirely successful outcome probably isn’t to be hoped for from the resulting overburdened scheme. But it was a fun thing to try.

The background graphic is variation on the fist-and-rose as blended with the palm-forward liberation fist salute long associated with labor struggle or such left causes as 1930s republicanism in Spain and Black Power in the United States.

The cartoon is a study of Cartoonist Cooperative mascots ‘Inkling,’ at right, and ‘Nibford,’ at left.