Colour cartoon character in a green jacket and blue jeans, with red stippled outlines of a diamond, a rabbit and a banner, tattooed on a calf in a dotwork style.

Cartoon character with banners on a calf

Dotwork · Calf · Mixed · Photo

A cartoon figure with red hair, a green jacket, blue jeans and white trainers stands at the centre, filled in with flat colour. Around it, red stippled dotwork outlines show a diamond, a rabbit, a spray can, a skull and two banners, one reading TODO POR and one reading LAURA. The colour is mixed, with the solid figure contrasting with the red linework on pale skin.

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Mo Okafor pinned the photocopied strip above the sink in the cutting room at Ferris Street Print, where the inks dried faster than the gossip. The strip showed a cartoon girl in a green parka and trainers that squeaked on lino. Desmond, the man who ran the press, had drawn her years ago and never signed anything. Every Thursday someone photocopied her again, so by spring there were nine versions pinned around the room, each a little paler than the last.

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The trouble started when the girl began to leave the frames. Mo found a stippled red rabbit scratched into the side of the bin, a diamond biroed onto the lid of the toner, and a spray can of red paint rolling under the guillotine. Nobody admitted to any of it. Desmond blamed the lino and said the rabbit was his cousin. Mo said nothing, because a sign-writer learns that lettering goes wherever it likes when nobody is watching.

On the last Thursday of April, a banner appeared on the notice board in a careful hand: TODO POR, and beneath it, in smaller capitals, LAURA. Nobody could say who Laura was. The girl stood by the door with her hands in her pockets, looking pleased with herself.

Mo took the banner down, rolled it, and filed it under B for banners. Some things belong to the people who draw them, she decided, and some belong to whoever is brave enough to hold the pen. She left the girl on the wall, and when the shop closed the trainers could still be heard squeaking faintly in the empty room.

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