Austin artist Chepo Peña is having a showing of his Star Wars themed loteria cards this weekend in Austin. Peña’s wry mashup of two cultural memes is spot on for both. His graphical style matches the classic Mexican loteria cards and his humorous translations of the cards to the Star Wars milieu is brilliant. Greedo as El Boracho, R2-D2 as El Barril and an AT-ST as El Gallo are some examples of Peña’s creative madness. My favorites are the ones that are not so obvious. You expect Leia to be La Dama and Han Solo to be El Valiente, but El Melon represented as Luke Skywalker’s head inside Darth Vader’s split helmet from Luke’s swamp vision is the kind of weird that strikes home!
The opening for this event is Sunday September 5th, 2010 from 5-7 PM at Thunderbird Coffee (2200 Manor Road, Austin, TX). Like karaoke music will be provided by Karaoke Apocalypse.
While Peña’s loteria cards are not approved by Lucasfilm which prevents him from selling them, you can see them all on his site, www.chepo.net.
