"I've given about 10 fuzz the clap this month"

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The Black Flag logo was merely the first public flowering of young Raymond Ginn’s very particular artistic talents. He’d grown up in the South Bay while the automobile ‘Kustom Kulture’, led by Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth, was in full bloom, and was forever drawing cars and hot rods. When allowed, he would pore over his father’s collection of macabre Fifties horror comic books, relics from before the Comics Code Authority expunged any lurid gore from the funny pages, following the publication of psychiatrist Fredric Wertham’s inflammatory argument for censorship of comic books, Seduction Of The Innocent. The violent imagery of these comic books would echo throughout Ginn’s own later work, which would similarly court controversy and censorship. As for the bleak sense of humour present in the same illustrations, Raymond was also a fan of Mad magazine, the satirical comic book that rendered American pop culture in irreverent and cynical black and white caricature.