Hey, many days of no updates; a combination of Hard Living and finishing projects has made my blog time non-existent. ANYWAY, I’d like to point everyone to this fine post on Will Kane’s blog, discussing the art of Guy Peellaert.
I’d never heard of Peellaert, which is fascinating, as the images from The Adventures of Jodell appear to be stolen directly from my mind by a malicious djinn. This really is what goes on in my head. Reading down further, one will see images of another Peellaert strip, Pravda. Something clicked and I realized that I had seen one of the images before– in the set design for 1970’s Performance.
Here’s Peellaert’s image:
And if you look to the center, here’s the same image in Turner’s basement, behind a gigantic head of Mick Jagger:
As I’ve mentioned, much of the set design for Performance was clearly the work of Martin Sharp of OZ fame and contains some of the more famous Sharp/OZ images, including a modified version of the Jagger cover from #15, and a heavily stylized version of Sharp’s famous Dylan poster. Seeing Peellaert’s comics, one retroactively detects his very obvious influence over Sharp.
Digging around the Internet, I discovered that Sharp + Co have begun selling artwork from the OZ days. While I believe that Sharp is the great unsung artist of the 1960s, and I can only applaud his decision to make this stuff available, it’s kind of depressing to see the wildly exorbitant prices of his prints. Who in god’s name wants a $299(AU) poster of the cover to OZ #16, Oz Proudly Presents the Magic Theatre?
You know, other than me.
