Gun Nut William S. Burroughs & Gonzo Illustrator Ralph Steadman Make Polaroid Portraits Together — openculture.com

Ralph Steadman is best known as the artist who realized the gonzo vision of Hunter S. Thompson in illustrations for the latter’s books and articles (and more recently, perhaps, for the labels on Colorado’s Flying Dog brew). His work has famously appeared over the past several decades in Punch, Private Eye, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, and he produced a brilliantly illustrated edition of Alice in Wonderland. Like his friend Gerald Scarfe, another wickedly satirical cartoonist who created the look of Pink Floyd’s The Wall, Steadman has made significant contributions to the look of the counterculture.

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