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T-shirts in Jest

Thursday 29th of March 2007 11:13:01 PM

When Lord Conrad Black was charged with fraud in Chicago, USA, the Canadian native didn’t have much support. Black, who owns Hollinger Media, used to own UK’s Telegraph newspaper among other publications, is accused of using tax-free funds from the company to buy gifts, host parties, and take expensive vacations. With his trial coming up soon, Black is looking for all the support he can get.

When a graphic designer from Toronto told the press about a large order of printed T-shirts bearing a picture of Black, with the slogan, ‘Conrad will Win’, it looked as though Black had found his fan base. So excited, he sent over the picture he wanted printed on the shirts. In total, it was reported that one hundred, fifty printed T-shirts were printed and sent to businessmen and others who were on their way from Canada to rally at his trial.

Sadly, for Black, the printed T-shirts were a joke started by a Canadian satire magazine, Frank. Wendy Tancock, the graphic designer, received an image of Black from a cell phone picture that was taken. “I'm not pro-Conrad - as a designer, I did this for a laugh. I think he has admirable qualities as a kind of guy you'd like to sit next to at a dinner party. He's a smart, intelligent man and apparently he's got a sense of humour but there are things in the world that are more important,” said Tancock. She had told him a drawing would have been better for the t-shirts.

Other people feel the same about Black. “He's cocky. Society likes to stick it to cocky people,” said investment manager Ray Lakhin. Others are interested in the trial itself. “There's nothing that fascinates Canadians more than watching the sleeping elephant next door in all its twitches and spasms. We're obsessed with the US - we've got our noses pressed up against the border,” said Rudyard Griffiths, head of a Toronto thinktank, the Dominion Institute.

(c)Dominic Morel, www.sxc.hu