JUXTAPOZ 3

Juxtapoz Vol. 1 No. 3 feels like a neon-soaked midnight crawl through underground America, stitched together from punk flyers, outlaw photography, psychedelic poster art and strange outsider visions. The issue plunges readers straight into the grimy world of NYC underground filmmaker Richard Kern before spiralling outward into a dense collage of lowbrow art, counterculture philosophy and visual chaos. CR Stecyk III’s feature on Mambo Graphics captures spiritual iconography twisted through surf culture and street aesthetics, while the brutal exposé on Keane Eyes tears apart kitsch sentimentality with gleeful venom. Every page feels pasted together from gig posters, xeroxes and late-night conversations in smoke-filled bars.

The magazine becomes a living archive of underground visual culture through its massive history of rock poster art featuring legends like Victor Moscoso, Raymond Pettibon and Frank Kozik, tracing four decades of psychedelic graphics and punk imagery. Neon Park’s posthumous presence hangs heavily over the issue, while Jim Shaw, Nicole Eisenman and Irene Hardwicke push deeper into surrealism, dream logic and outsider obsession. Mixed with tirades against performance art, underground reviews and “outsiders and all-nighters” culture reports, the issue captures Juxtapoz before it became institutionalised: loud, messy, confrontational and completely alive.