BY RALPH STEADMAN Social images are both aesthetic and cogent. They are magical shorthand marks, rumbustuous traveling street theatre, cheap and accessible for the best of possible reasons – to reach the people. Much of the avalanche of engraved prints in England in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries was directed towards the lower echelons […]
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A.W.P UBER ALLES
BY LYNN BURTON The Aspen Wall Posters were a lot of things, but mostly they were just flat-out funny. “He (Thompson) would come in with this stuff, and I’d just laugh myself sick. I thought even the greed-heads would have to find some humor in it,” said Aspen Wall Poster co-founder Tom Benton in a […]
THE PICTURE OF JILLY IN GRAY
This portrait of “Jilly” has already caused us more trouble than anything we ever even thought about publishing in previous issues of the Wallposter. The internal arguments have been vicious, bordering on at times on hysteria. Women don’t seem to like Jilly. Without exception (including Madames, Thompson & Benton) they have cursed and deplored our […]
TEX’S POETRY PAGE
THE FOLLOWING IS DEDICATED TO BILL SMITH. RACHEL, WOODY CREEK LOVES YOU AND SUPPORTS YOU ALL THE WAY. In honor of Hunter Thompson’s birthday, here is the final stanza of Kubla Khan: A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing […]
