Robbie Conal
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Robbie Conal is an American guerilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. He is noted for his use of snipes to distribute his poster art throughout a city overnight. A former hippie, he received his bachelor's degree in fine arts from San Francisco State University in 1968 and his MFA from Stanford University in 1978. He currently lives in the Los Angeles area, where he teaches drawing and painting at the University of Southern California.
He was the subject of the 1992 documentary Post No Bills. He has also written two books, Art Attack: The Midnight Politics Of A Guerrilla Artist and Artburn, a collection of his work published in the alternative newspaper L.A. Weekly.
In 2004, Conal joined artists Shepard Fairey and Mear One to create a series of "anti-war, anti-Bush" posters for a street art campaign called "Be the Revolution" for the art collective Post Gen.