The visual identity of the original gonzo journalist's campaign for office.
Thomas W. Benton’s “Patriots Arise,” silkscreen on paper, via Poster House
In 1970 "gonzo jounalist" Hunter S. Thompson, ran for sheriff of Aspen, CO.
His campaign was supported by "posters, designed and silk-screened by the artist Thomas W. Benton, a close friend of Thompson’s and a fellow Californian turned Aspen activist, fused gut-punch electioneering ('Sell Aspen or Save It') with visceral imagery (a clenched fist set against a sheriff’s badge)."
Sigh. Thompson lost, and today Aspen is one of the places that the ultra-rich treat as a playground while the creatives who made it cool can't afford it anymore, just as Thompson warned. But the graphics still rock.
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