Creators There were no comic shops on the Navajo Reservation when Damon Begay was growing, but he found
some comics in a gas station and that sparked his passion.
Not exact matches
Making a pact to rob her
gas station and drive to Chicago
in his stolen taxi, these two outcasts were my collection's only characters who behaved so oddly: borrowing identities from
comic books, acting out on the fringes of society.
The book tracks his movement from an initial interest
in signage (the early -»60s drafts for his iconic paintings of the 20th Century Fox logo, the Standard Oil
gas -
station sign, and «Annie»
in the
comic strip's type) to later images that are highly idiosyncratic, downright poetic concoctions («Thick Blocks of Musical Fudge» is the phrase
in one 1976 pastel).