Something New

The first two volumes in my series titled "Saigon: Too Big To Fail" have gone up for sale on Amazon.  Visit my Author's Page here.

The covers look like this ...

My promo blurb reads ...

"The almost universal lack of prosecution of the individuals responsible for the worst financial crisis in almost a hundred years is both astonishing and not surprising at all," author Geoffrey Raymond says. "For those who share that frustration, 'Saigon: Too Big To Fail' is guaranteed to provide some catharsis."

Raymond, 61, an American writer and painter, is best known for his portraits of the movers and shakers of Washington and Wall Street. What makes his work unique is that after completing the paintings, he exhibits them al fresco - often in front of the New York Stock Exchange - and encourages passers-by to vent their feelings by grabbing a Sharpie and writing them on the surface of the painting itself. This annotation has been called everything from graffiti to community discourse to performance art to a "snapshot of history, with a focus on the financial crisis of 2008." 

"Saigon: Too Big To Fail" is a series of tongue-in-cheek mash-ups that drop bubble-era Wall Street smack into the middle of the Vietnam War, yielding illuminating and sometimes laugh-out-loud effects. The series explores everything from the rescue of Bear Stearns to the implosion of Lehman Brothers to the London Whale.

"The whole idea of being an artist is going where your mind takes you." Raymond explains. "My mind keeps taking me here. And besides, everybody knows that working on Wall Street is like going to war. I just put two and two together."

More to come.  Read the first one first.