4
Mar
2008
CMY(W)K’d
After much deliberation in my head about what single piece of printed communication most profoundly changed me, I have arrived at my submission. Ralph Steadman’s original sketch for the book by Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. 
This image is not the most technically refined. It does not have any color. Nor does it have any major impact of social relevance. This depiction of Hunter S. Thompson and his attorney Dr. Gonzo speeding through the desert on a hell-bent narcotic infused mission does not evoke glory or honor in the way that men have died on battle fields does. Nothing that will evoke crowds at the Louvre or cause a whole social outcry like Marcel did with his damn toilet.
Nope.
None of that here.
This is an image that is of just two guys, Ralph Steadman; Illustrator and Hunter S. Thopmson; Journalist, getting together to do something that is seemingly simple.
Tell a story.