Off the Wall. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Summer 1991) through vol. 2, no. 9 (n.d., 1995?) (all published)
- SIGNED
(Various subtitles include: "The Newsletter Journal for Event Posters and the Arts of Happenings"; “The Newsletter/Journal About Events Posters & The Arts of Happenings"; "The Newsjournal about Posters, Poetry, Ideas & The Arts of Happenings"; "The Foremost Journal of Rock Art/Posters/Poetry/Ideas & Happenings"; and "The Rock Art Journal".)
Nine issues, circa 8-24 pp. each. Tabloid, folded to quarto size (22 3/4 x 17 3/8 inches, folded to 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches). Original colorful self-wrappers. Creasing along central fold lines, light browning along some edges, overall very good condition. Aurora, Missouri: The Poster Project LTD., 1991-1995. First issue signed by editor Wes Wilson. A complete run in nine issues of the irregularly-published journal dedicated to the art of psychedelic rock posters and underground comic art, edited by noted American artist and psychedelic poster designer Wes Wilson (1937-2020). Brightly illustrated throughout, the issues contain regular contributions by Robert Crumb, Andrei Codrescu, Eric King, Jacaeber Kastor, Gary Grimshaw, Walter Medeiros, Paul Getchell, Ben Edmonds, Paul Grushkin, John Platt, Dick Wentworth, and others, alongside advertisements for poster shows and exhibitions, short articles, poetry, and classified ads. There are also reproductions of posters as well as original photographs and comic art, all of it executed in an experimental computer graphic page design consistent with consumer-grade desktop publishing software from the 1990s.
Primarily notable for its graphically spectacular blending of 1960-1970s poster art with an emerging computer graphic design aesthetic of the early 1990s, Off the Wall also provided a linkage between the left-wing political commitments of the psychedelic era and the more diffuse drug culture and music scenes of the nineties. It was the first journal completely devoted to psychedelic poster artists. Scarce: as of February 2025, OCLC locates three holdings in United States institutional libraries.
Nine issues, circa 8-24 pp. each. Tabloid, folded to quarto size (22 3/4 x 17 3/8 inches, folded to 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches). Original colorful self-wrappers. Creasing along central fold lines, light browning along some edges, overall very good condition. Aurora, Missouri: The Poster Project LTD., 1991-1995. First issue signed by editor Wes Wilson. A complete run in nine issues of the irregularly-published journal dedicated to the art of psychedelic rock posters and underground comic art, edited by noted American artist and psychedelic poster designer Wes Wilson (1937-2020). Brightly illustrated throughout, the issues contain regular contributions by Robert Crumb, Andrei Codrescu, Eric King, Jacaeber Kastor, Gary Grimshaw, Walter Medeiros, Paul Getchell, Ben Edmonds, Paul Grushkin, John Platt, Dick Wentworth, and others, alongside advertisements for poster shows and exhibitions, short articles, poetry, and classified ads. There are also reproductions of posters as well as original photographs and comic art, all of it executed in an experimental computer graphic page design consistent with consumer-grade desktop publishing software from the 1990s.
Primarily notable for its graphically spectacular blending of 1960-1970s poster art with an emerging computer graphic design aesthetic of the early 1990s, Off the Wall also provided a linkage between the left-wing political commitments of the psychedelic era and the more diffuse drug culture and music scenes of the nineties. It was the first journal completely devoted to psychedelic poster artists. Scarce: as of February 2025, OCLC locates three holdings in United States institutional libraries.