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John Hodgman's hobo mosaic

Mark Frauenfelder at 10:14 pm Fri, Sep 8, 2006

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200609082206 Last year, I wrote about John Hodgman's wonderful song about 700 fanciful hobo names, such as "Bazino Bazino, The Kid Whose Hair Is On Fire," "Extra-Skin Dave," and "Ol' Barb Stab-You-Quick." I invited cartoonists to draw the 700 hoboes, and they eagerly took up the challenge, starting a Flickr group. On Tuesday, the artists announced that there is now at least one drawing per hobo! (They are going to continue drawing new versions of the hoboes.)

One of the cartoonists, the very talented xadrian, created a photo mosaic of Hodgman using hundreds of the hobo drawings. Link (More about the 700 Hoboes project here, and the master list here)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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