Liberty Bell Titanide

I couldn’t get rid of this image plaguing the back of my mind for

three days, so I had to draw it.

Then I had to suppress a nagging impulse to draw the whole regiment.

In case the picture does not ring the Bell, it’s based on a scene in the third and final book in John Varley’s “Titan” trilogy, in which a rather unorthodox psychological diversion is staged by having a whole orchestra of gaudy Titanides in gaudy uniforms march playing “The Liberty Bell” by Sousa. For non-Americans, a record of that can be found at http://ia200032.eu.archive.org/1/audio/EdisonGrandConcertBand/EdisonGrandConcertBand-TheLibertyBellMarch.mp3

or in MIDI format http://www.dws.org/sousa/mid/liberty.mid , so now the tune can plague you too.) It’s outlandish enough as is, even without super-deforming the Titanides.