Product Description

Greg Irons' artistic output spanned psychedelic dance posters, underground comic books, album covers, children's book illustrations and tattoo art. His intense, detailed style, suitable for adults only, has won much praise in art circles.

Irons would probably be an art superstar today, but he was struck and killed by a bus in Bangkok.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #613804 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-29
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .69" h x 7.94" w x 10.00" l, 2.01 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From Booklist
Irons was in the second tier of underground-comics artists. He joined the San Francisco comics scene in 1969 and barely missed becoming a regular contributor to the legendary Zap Comix. His style coalesced a bit later, after he belatedly discovered the notorious EC horror comics of the 1950s, which inspired him to apply the genre's devices to the violence in American society in such comic books as Skull and Slow Death. His magnum opus, Legion of Charlies, equated Charles Manson and Lieutenant Calley and is among the 17 stories that appear whole in this retrospective. Irons also designed psychedelic concert posters for Bill Graham's Fillmore Ballroom rock shows, and after underground comics' midseventies decline, turned to children's-book illustration and tattoo art; all three forms are amply represented here. Many of his later comics have still--resonant environmental themes. The directions his career might have taken were cut short by a Bangkok bus in 1984. Irons was 37. This lovingly assembled volume is a well-deserved testament to his legacy. Gordon Flagg
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About the Author
Greg Irons (1947-84) was a self-taught poster artist in San Francisco, then detoured to London to work on the movie The Yellow Submarine. Returning to the U.S. he became an underground cartoonist and tattoo artist.