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Back in the 80s and 90s there was this cartoonist called Ace Backwords who would give out his cartoons so you could reprint them for free. He did a lot of them about counter-culture topics, so if you had a newsletter or zine and you needed content, a lot of times you’d put in an Ace Backwords cartoon. (this was just before the internet era, so you had a lot more newsletters and zines.)
Ace Backwords quit cartooning in the early 2000s. Now he “sleeps rough on the streets” in Berkeley (San Francisco area) and blogs about his feral cats, homelessness, and memories of living a counter-culture life.
I got this cartoon from his blog and cleaned up the contrast a bit, see the original here: https://acebackwords5.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/609/
That was a fascinating rabbit hole. I went reading lots about the author and his life, and damn it is too late to be pondering about art and how this talented person lives. I admire it, but it’s a complicated feeling to get at 1am!
Yeah, the guy’s read a lot of Charles Bukowski and Harvey Pekar, so it’s not surprising that he has a great way of telling slice-of-life stories. Not to mention he did a lot of interviews of major punk rockers and related writing.