Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s unique sincerity is catching. His letterpress-printed cardboard posters are often poignant and powerful, and colorful in every sense of that word. A graduate of Grambling State who worked until his forties in the field of computers, Kennedy makes no bones that he found something he would rather do with his life and then did it. I have never seen him wear anything but overalls, and his smile ad hearty laugh are also sincere in their joviality. What struck me initially about Amos Kennedy was his insistence that there should be art – true art – that anyone could afford to buy, and often priced under $20, his art is just that. I have watched Amos Kennedy help small children maneuver the workings of his old-school Vandercook press to make their own prints, and I have seen him tease shoppers mercilessly. When I drove to Gordo in late January to interview him, I was ready for anything.