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I was Googling for some free images to use on this and other websites I have when David Dees and a creation of his came to my attention.

The first thing that caught my eye was a high definition image that drew me in for a closer look. It didn’t escape my attention that the image had a credit on it that read, DeesIllustration.com. I had assumed that, as has always been the case, the “dees” was actually, “dee’s” in the possessive form. Such as the case with Dee’s Deli and other businesses.

As it turned out, we share the same last name and we may very well be 5th, 6th, or 7th cousins somewhere in the family line, since he hails from northern Mississippi, which happens to be where my barefoot, sharecropping, redneck ancestry originated. I’m sure his part of the Dees line did better than the moonshining side I’m from, though.

My guess is we aren’t related. He is an artist. I had to repeat Kindergarten when a chicken with its feet dipped in ink drew a stick figure better than I did. However, I was fairly good at forging my mother’s signature for teachers in my later years.

Few of Dees’ works need explaining. The subject matter speaks for itself and sends a clear message.

I could see they were produced digitally using a computer program, but you also could see that not only were computer skills needed, but in many, artistic skills, as well. As it turns out, David Dees has worked the mainstream art scene for some notable companies.

His activist art is also being used to make the message remembered. It’s an impression that lasts longer than simply posting a photo of somebody holding a protest sign, or flipping the middle finger toward a government building.

That’s not to say that everything he creates I agree with, but I agree with much of it. Monsanto, domestic spying on citizens, fracking, and some others, I can relate to.

Other subjects, such as the U.S. exterminating Germans after WWII, 9/11 an inside job, Oklahoma bombing pre-known, chemical trails from planes, and other conspiracy theories he has created imagery for are beyond my belief – and I’m one that doesn’t have a lot of trust in the honesty of our government.

There are just some things that go beyond the possible and some of what he created isn’t so much art, as it is a political statement. These include faux magazine covers and some other items he created using a combination of images that fall short of being called art, in the final result.

I can however, look beyond my personal disbelief and look at much of what he created for its artistic value using a medium that is often overlooked and under-rated by those who judge others in the mainstream art world. He is also one of the relatively few artists who put their name to creations that depict controversial subject matter, for doing so will almost assuredly result in them being ostracized.

I asked David to send me some information on his background and what drives him to do what he does. He provided the following bio from his book:

Commercial artist, David Dees, with a family tree rooted in the deep southern states of Mississippi and Louisiana, was introduced to the world of art by watching along side the easel of his father’s hobby of landscape and Civil War scene oil painting. After a brief stay in art school, Dees joined staff at an Atlanta, Georgia graphic studio creating images for magazine and newspaper advertisements, but being an avid movie fan and with big dreams of designing Hollywood movie poster art, headed west to Los Angeles in 1984. (Orwell would have been proud.) Setting up freelance, specializing in airbrush illustration for the entertainment industry, Dees developed an arsenal of acrylic airbrushing techniques from super-realism to wacky high energy cartooning. Illustrating video and DVD covers, toy packaging, movie promo store displays, and children’s books, for the next 17 years Dees counted Paramount Studios, Warner Bros., Geffen Records, Hanna Barbera and Sesame Street Magazine as some of his favorite clients.

In the 1990’s as the world shifted to computers, Dees was surprised to find a fantastic new freedom painting digitally. By the late 90’s however, dangerous LA was no longer the paradise it once was, and then came the surreal trauma of September 11, 2001. Gullible as most everyone else, Dees believed the official 9/11 story pushed by mainstream TV, but it was a tipping point, so taking a chance on a drastic change, he moved his internet based illustration studio to Europe. Living safe in the heart of Scandinavian culture for the next ten years in exotic Sweden, he had the vantage point of watching the economic and political problems of America from afar. While in Europe though, a true turning event happened, when in 2003 while studying close-up photos of the Pentagon crash, Dees suddenly woke up to the truth of 9/11. Lifelong patriotism shaken, he now saw the arrogance, the lies, and the murderous criminal fascade the American government truly was, the shock triggering a long introspective process of digging for info on the shadowy secret government some call ‘going down the rabbit hole’, because it branches off, and goes as deep and as dark as you willing to confront. He studied, read, and listened, and soon was armed with a solid understanding of secret societies, zionist banking criminals, and the New World Order agenda. Dees had changed. Uncharacteristically, he raged and argued to anyone that would listen just how unknowingly controlled and spiritually enslaved we all were. With a radical new activist fire in his eye, ‘sleeping sheeple’ good friends were lost, but many new ‘awake activist friends’ on the internet were made.

Research reached a boiling point, and in 2006 Dees designed his first ever political illustration called ‘World War W’. Named for George W. Bush, the art featured an orange planet earth being bombed in the middle east by green dollar signed weapons of war. He emailed the piece to Jeff Rense for possible publication on Rense.com, and the day it landed on the front page of the top alternative news website for millions to view, an exciting new political activist art style was born. Using all the visual tricks he had learned from years in the trade, the seasoned artist began creating an endless tirade of political and social commentary illustrations that literally exploded onto the internet 9/11 Truth scene. With it’s origins purely organic and emotionally-driven, Dees’ art was noticed the world over as a stunning, often wild, form of geopolitical artistic expression which found humor in an insane world…while just as often warned of the cruel ‘silent weapons’ and bloody hands of the genocidal, tyrannical elite. Appearing in countless alternative news documentaries, blogs, and websites, the ‘art missiles of truth’ circulated virally through the internet and today has gained a wide international audience.

Uncensored Magazine named Dees ‘the most controversial artist in the world today’, radio talk show host and nuclear physicist, Dr. Bill Deagle, calls Dees the ‘Nikola Tesla of political art’, some have written ‘Dees is the Norman Rockwell for this new century’, and many have pointed out the courage it takes to sign your name to art that exposes, defames and ridicules the most brutal police state control grid ideology this world has ever seen. Dees returned to America in 2012, now lives in a sunny part of Oregon, and continues working in political and book cover illustration.

Below you will find a slide show of some of his works found on his website, www.deesillustration.com. He offers the images on his website free of charge, but does accept donations for their use. If you do download any from his website remember that the credit portion, printed on the picture, must remain. I’m sure he would also appreciate a link back to his site, as well.

If you are interested in purchasing his full color book containing 114 of his works printed on glossy paper, you can order it HERE. If you want to hire David Dees for illustration work, there is a contact link on his website.