So I’m buyin’ some prints on ebay, doing some buyin is a smart thang to do right now because Obama is about to be elected and this economy is going to turn around in basically… instantly. Right?

I find a print I like on ebay and I buy it. When I receive it days later, I find this awesome “Cool” Disco Dan print in the shipping tube as well! I was instantly intrigued, and started asking questions.

First thing I found was a [Swindle Magazine blog post], and through that I found the most excellent ["Cool" Disco Dan Official]!

Turns out there is a numbered run of 200 of these prints signed by “Cool” himself! I didn’t get one of those, I got an unsigned, unnumbered one, but who am I to complain about free prints?

I’m not!

Cool “Disco” Dan is a Washington, D.C., legend, a symbol of survival of the city’s most difficult years. It was a graffiti nickname, written in marker and spray paint throughout Washington, D.C., clear and legible, never fancy. Any resident of Washington, whether young or old, stick-up kid or congressman, couldn’t help but be intrigued by its omnipresence. Who was this Cool “Disco” Dan?

Cool “Disco” Dan is an anomaly: He lived in the crack-ridden Washington, D.C., ghetto—yet he never took or sold drugs. Though his father was abusive and died young, Dan was raised by a stable family, and only as a young adult did he become homeless. He witnessed at short range the spiraling street violence of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s that earned D.C. the dubious title of America’s “Murder Capital”—yet Dan was gun shy and hated to fight.

Find out more about the apparently legendary “Cool” Disco Dan,
and tell him the DJs sent you! ["Cool" Official Background]