JUXTAPOZ 6

Juxtapoz Vol. 2 No. 2 feels like a radioactive scrapbook assembled from outlaw philosophy, underground comics, tattoo culture and chemically altered Americana. The issue’s lineup is stacked with countercultural heavyweights, from psychedelic painter Mati Klarwein and chaos prophet Timothy Leary to formaldehyde shock artist Damien Hirst and gonzo literary renegades William S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson. Robert Williams threads the whole issue together with his usual anti-mainstream fury, treating art not as polite decoration but as cultural warfare sprayed across canvases, cars and city walls.

Elsewhere, Joe Coleman drags readers into his obsessive worlds of violence and Americana, while Spain Rodriguez, COST and REVS, and the “Artists & Their Cars” feature celebrate lives lived at full throttle. The issue moves from graffiti to outsider art to medical oddities with a stop inside Mütter Museum, before detonating into “SRL Explodes SF,” documenting the machine-chaos performances of Survival Research Laboratories. Wrapped in reviews, underground exhibitions and savage editorials, the magazine feels dangerous in the best possible way, like a culture refusing to be cleaned up, marketed or made respectable.

Some wear at stapled spine.