Born in 1963, the artist explores society through drawings of a fictional town called Nobson Newton, which depict a dysfunctional and dystopian landscape that has been compared to the legendary William Hogarth and US cartoonist RobertCrumb.
How fascinating it is to chart the thematic development and coming-of-age of an artist, weaned on MAD Magazine, who began his career as part of the San Francisco comic-book counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, which included talented draftsmen like RobertCrumb and Gilbert Shelton.