Ralph Steadman is a brilliant cartoonist, illustrator, and caricaturist.
He's done illustrations for many books and articles, including the following:
The Little Red Computer
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Two Donkeys and a...
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Ralph Steadman is a brilliant cartoonist, illustrator, and caricaturist.
He's done illustrations for many books and articles, including the following:
The Little Red Computer
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Two Donkeys and a Bridge
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
Emergency Mouse
The Curse of Lono
Inspector Mouse
I Leonardo
No Good Dogs
Quasimodo Mouse
Treasure Island
That's My Dad
The Complete Alice
Glass and The Hunting of the Snark
The Big I Am
No Room to Swing a Cat
Near the Bone
Tales of the Weirrd
The Grapes of Ralph
Still Life with Bottle
Teddy! Where Are You?
Animal Farm
Gonzo: The Art of Ralph Steadman
The Devil's Dictionary
I haven't drawn illustrations for quite some time due to the absence of clients. Magazines and newspapers nowadays don't need freelance illustrators as they used to. Fortunately, a weekly horror magazine, which has been using my illustrations for quite a long time e-mailed me just a few days ago and asked for a few drawings. I sent them five and they accepted three of the works. The illustration you see included in the post is one of the two drawings rejected. I feel a bit disappointed...
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New Alizee video. Singing in English for a television show. Now some of you may be thinking, what did I just watch? Did it sound a little 70's. This is just too interesting. Here with a little help from Wikipedia is some information: The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast is a concept album and subsequent live rock opera appearing in 1974 and 1975 respectively, based on the children's book of the same title (The album cover design is from Alan Aldridge's design for the book). It...
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Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Ralph Steadman Illustrations". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your...
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Circa 1970.
A free mint julep to the reader who knew that the first reference to gonzo journalism was in review of Hunter S Thompson's, The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved, published in 1970.
Click below the fold for a representative excerpt.
In this excerpt, Thompson is...
Etchings of famous authors created by the world-renowned artist and illustrator Ralph Steadman will go on show from Saturday, 19 April, until Saturday, 26 July, at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Schoolhill, Aberdeen. 2008/04/18 00:00:00
The People’s Republic of Flying Dog is now in session.
It’s happy hour at Flying Dog Brewery, so here is your latest dose of irreverence. After my political rantings last week, we were overwhelmed with responses. Many supportive; some calling me a commie. Either way, the manifesto is still in...
The People’s Republic of Flying Dog is now in session.
It’s happy hour at Flying Dog Brewery, so here is your latest dose of irreverence. Last newsletter, we asked for 500 votes in our beer poll and you guys stepped up and barely creeped across the finish line with 544. Being the man of my word...
Every bottle of Flying Dog's beer features a Thompson quote; "Good people drink good beer." And Thompson's long time collaborator, artist Ralph Steadman, ...
In his 1970 article “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson points out the grassy infield at Churchill Downs to English artist Ralph Steadman before the race.
Ralph Steadman, who is a proper Surrealist, dwelling more in the country of the unconscious than the workaday world of gravelling the drive and scraping the putrefying rat, has done well to avoid the provocation of his own rambunctious id when creating this beautiful portrait of the Nobel...
Ralph Steadman, who is a proper Surrealist, dwelling more in the country of the unconscious than the workaday world of gravelling the drive and scraping the putrefying rat, has done well to avoid the provocation of his own rambunctious id when creating this beautiful portrait of the Nobel...
... article, " The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved " for the short-lived magazine, Scanlan's Monthly . The novelization of “Fear and Loathing” (with additional Ralph Steadman
... Cello), Stephen Tees (Viola), Nicole Tibbels (Narrator), Adrian Lane (Trombone), Eleanor Bron (Narrator), Ralph Steadman (Librettist), Ralph Steadman (Liner Notes), Ralph Steadman (Illustrations .
I believe that it is influenced by the Ralph Steadman illustrations that often accompanied Hunter S. Thompson's work. See "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" for examples.