you grow up fast: always with your eyes wide open


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Pettibon approached his art with a seriousness that equalled Greg’s unflinching commitment to Black Flag. Tom Troccoli remembered that whenever he visited the Ginn house, “Raymond would be sitting there in his weird reclining chair, with his pasteboard in front of him, drawing cartoon after cartoon after cartoon, while watching whatever was on TV, while his mother was screaming at him, trying to get his attention.” Pettibon’s artwork drew heavily on his father’s vast, chaotically stocked and wildly eclectic library for inspiration, from the torrid pulp novel covers, the gory and perverse comic books, but also from classical texts, from great literature.

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