Ladies and gentlemen, I have stumbled upon the Rosetta Stone of subversive street art: Banksy’s notebook. These ideas and sketches may one day grace the walls of your local bank, or the book section of your local Urban Outfitters, but until then, here’s a sneak preview:
- A soldier holds a rifle, but the rifle is actually a flower. The flower still shoots bullets, except the bullets are dollar signs. The soldier is Bart Simpson.
- A little girl holds a balloon. The balloon is actually a policeman. A speech-bubble next to the policeman reads “You are under arrest… for thinking for yourself.”
- A businessman wearing a gas mask watches television. What’s on TV? It’s the same businessman. That’s right, the TV is a mirror. There is a gas mask on top of the TV.
- The Queen sits on a solid-gold toilet. There are dollar signs on the toilet. The Queen’s crown is made of bones. She is smiling—or is she? Yes, she is, but it’s a bad smile, actually.
- A group of schoolboys, all wearing gas masks, do the Gangnam Style dance in a military cemetery (Possibly too subversive?)
- A mother pushes a stroller. Inside the stroller is one of those big cartoon bombs. The mother is smoking a cigar, and it turns out she is a Wall St. fat cat. The bomb has a gas mask strapped to it.
- A pig wearing a top hat and a monocle pilots a fighter jet. He fires a missile—but wait—the missile is a hot dog. However: the hot dog is still explosive.
- A doctor performs surgery on a patient, but the patient is a giant dollar bill. The doctor pulls out the dollar bill’s heart, which is a swastika made of bullets.
- Try spray-painting “Hammertime” at the bottom of a stop sign.
- Is it possible to rig up a drive-thru speaker to play poop and fart noises? Investigate further.
- A baby holds a handgun, and points it at—you guessed it—a giant dollar sign wearing the Pope’s hat.
- A rat wearing a gas mask crawls out of a sewer pipe. The pipe is labelled “CAPITALISM.”
- A starving child stares longingly at the McDonald’s Golden Arches. Hold on, though – the Arches are actually the outline of Satan’s butt.
- The Olympic Rings—with frowny faces inside.
- Mickey Mouse, but his ears are globes. The ice caps at the top of his ears are melting and there is a speech bubble near Mickey that reads “My ears are burning!”
He is wearing a gas maskHe is not wearing a gas mask. - The Coppertone logo, except the dog is a police dog. The girl is also wearing a bathing suit made out of money.
- Ronald McDonald wears an army uniform. He is holding a giant French fry like a machine gun. He has a Hitler mustache. The mustache is also a French fry.
- Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor is held at gunpoint by an Israeli soldier. In the background, Wilson peers over the West Bank barrier.
- A giant sentient gas mask eats a bowl of cereal, except the cereal is a bunch of little frosted gas masks. The milk is blood (or oil?).
- The Facebook “Like” symbol, but it’s signifying whether a Roman gladiator should live or die.
- The Tiananmen Square tank photo, except the tank guy is looking the other way and texting someone on his iPhone. The tank is George W. Bush’s head
- Find a YIELD sign and spray-paint “To Corporate Interests? Not On Banksy’s Watch!” next to it.
- Hitler pets a cat. The cat is also Hitler.
















