Censorship and Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut- we miss him very much. We were just getting to know him!! Now, Hardly 3 years after his death, some wretched, asinine School Board in a place ominously called Republic, Missouri- has voted to ban Kurt's personal first masterpiece, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE, his very own traumatic experience during the bombing of Dresden during World War II whilst serving in Europe with the US Military. This Board wish to ban it to oblivion- and Hell- as though it were something dishonourable and obscene- while the only dishonourable and obscene thing was the bombing itself- the suffering of those who were caught up in the slaughter and the tragic consequences.

Sexuality, in all explicit forms appear to offend those who would call themselves Christians. Violence does not seem to appear in their agenda. Instead, they would defend violence as the suffering of one man who 'died for others sins' in one historic moment that changed the face of History and gave most followers -'a NEW RELIGION!'

The Dog Prints

Karl Bicker Sadie WOOF is always a good way to start a small explanatory note about these Silk screen Dog prints that were drawn by me but printed by master printer Joe Petro III in Kentucky, where thoroughbred horses are teased into life and pampered like Princes. In fact Lexington was where I first met the late Hunter S. Thompson way back in 1970 and together we boozed our way through that year’s Kentucky Derby, learning to get to know each other and creating the first ever GONZO piece — an odd chemistry! — for a little known magazine called SCANLAN’s (named after an equally little known Nottingham Pig Farmer — and God knows why!} — It was the brainchild of San-Francisco based journalist Warren Hinckle III and Sidney Zion — a Shylock lookalike- if ever I saw one!!. Come to think of it, Warren Hinkle modeled himself on Long John Silver from Treasure Island. I would say that such vanitiesadd color to creativity..

Animal Behaviorist

Animal Behaviorist #2 'These creatures are purely fictional and bear only some slight relationship to real life in as much as parts of them are collage, extracted from various encyclopaedic sources and woven into some form of fatuous invention that 'happened as I drew them. Such creatures may well have existed but became extinct on account of their unlikely forms. Some may well have never existed and it is is merely me playing God- or being daft and playing silly buggers- although some of you may suddenly shout out- " HEY!! HANG ON A MINUTE!!! I HAD A PET LIKE THAT ONCE- BUT IT KEPT ATTACKING THE CHICKENS, SO I SOLD IT TO SOMEONE WHO KEPT FERRETS WHO SOLD IT ON AFTER IT STARTED ATTACKING THEM TOO. IT NOW LIVES ON A SNAKE FARM QUITE HAPPILY ALONG WITH A HERD OF GROAT WODDLERS(Oofnatum Blodlickerstings)- WHATEVER THEY ARE" The 'latin' names are also the result of 'freefall' thinking also, which means that I wrote the first words or sounds of words that popped into my mind. Take them seriously at your peril. It's a game!!'