By Danny Brault and Allison Kennedy

With the spirit of supercross among us, we decided to have some fun in the office and relieve some stress with a friendly, but competitive poster-building contest between senior editor, Allison Kennedy, and assistant editor, Danny Brault. Our newest edition to the RXC crew, contributor, Todd Kuli, was supposed to participate as well, but he was busy putting the finishing touches on his latest edition of Unruly with Todd Kuli. So, it was a head-to-head battle between Kennedy and Brault: who can build the coolest supercross poster.

Supercross Sign making with Danny Brault

I had watched my mother build hundreds of crafts, so I was pretty confident that I knew the tools required: bristol board, markers, glue, scissors and a bowl full of creativity. After picking up supplies at the local Wal-Mart, I was ready to get the party started. Unfortunately, when I arrived at home, I discovered that I was missing an important item—the glue. No arts and crafts project can exist without glue or some type of adhesive, so unable to drag my lazy butt back to the store, I just improvised and used some stickers that I had kicking around the house.

Only a few letters in, I was stricken with another set-back. My roommate/ co-worker / friend, Jay Moore, who had helped me out with some Crayola markers for the project, failed to mention he hadn’t used them since Grade seven. After constantly licking the felt tipped markers, I became light headed and was forced to lie down. (Actually, the Trailer Park Boys had just come on, and I required my daily Bubbles fix.)

Now that I was multi-tasking, watching TPB, chatting with Jay Moore and trying to build the best damn supercross poster ever, my mind wandered and I made a mistake. As I lifted my head and had a good look at the final product, I began weeping, because I had made the words, ‘Marry Me Miss SX’ too big and it didn’t fit on to the Bristol board. Frustrated I just said, ‘To heck with it,’ turned the board over and did a quickie.

Using the only marker that worked in Moore’s collection, I did the classic, ‘Will you marry me?’ proposal. What do you think? Do I have a shot with Ms. Brittney George? My dog, Sparky, thinks it has magic written all over it.

Supercross Sign making with Allison Kennedy

This is how my Sunday morning started, with a cup of coffee, a Mac PowerBook and a desktop wallpaper from the official Superman website.

After adding a ‘welcome’ message to the Superman image, I was stumped as to how to get RC’s likeness on to the poster. With no scanner and my Photoshop skills admittedly weak, I turned to the forgotten Grade school art of cut and paste. I browsed my old Racer X issues until I found one where RC looked suitably ‘Clark Kent-ish’. This Fox ad would do the trick.

Luckily, RC’s head in the Fox ad was just the right size to replace his superhero counterpart. I snipped it out (sorry Ricky, I swear there was no voodoo), gave it a once over with the old glue stick and voila … the Superman/ RC transition was complete, or was it?

Hmmm ... I hadn’t anticipated such a conflict between RC’s red locks and Superman’s glossy black tresses; nothing a Sharpie won’t take care of. I worked with care to meld their hair into one. I think you’ll agree the end result is quite natural … and stunning!

With my main poster artwork complete, I had to mount the photo on something sturdy. There is nothing worse than a flimsy poster, that won’t stand up to the violent waving required to find yourself on the next-day TV coverage of the race. I decided to duct tape (note the extra touch of Canadian flavour) the photo to some stiff cardboard, so it would stand up well throughout the race. I also reinforced the edges so there’s no need to worry about papercuts. As I duct taped the whole unit together, I decided that while I was at it, I might as well make'er double-sided. The duct tape had roused some rather nationalistic feelings for me, so I decided to give the flip side a 'Go Canada Go' theme so I could cheer for both sides at the supercross.

The final masterpiece. I’m relatively sure you won’t see another like it in the Toronto stands. Vote for me! Why? Because Giver is only in this ‘game’ of art because he thinks that he’ll win a kiss from Miss Supercross. I’ve got a lot of pride and money riding on this contest, and I'm confident that this is the best and most original RC poster, ever!

Feel free to send in your vote on who's poster takes the cake. Our send us a photo of your World Supercross poster. Just email us at: letters@racerxcanada.com.