One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-to… - Ralph Steadman

It was a carefree period and we took to it like genuine lowlife.

Those Fear and Loathing drawings were only possible for me because of the America's Cup six months earlier, which injected the the drawings with the eerie sense of being there to record the sensations. It was a regurgitation, a psycho-artistic vomit - a creative, cathartic cleansing of my inner being.

Let me say it here and now. For all Hunter's mindless self-indulgence, which is legendary and crude, he always impressed me with his blind, selfless urge to cut out the crony bestiality of modern society and the political economy that scarred the era.