Office by Alex Penny
I was waking up and the phone rang. It was a friend in Kentucky, Joe Petro the Third. They always have to have descendants. He said: ‘Take your phone of the hook. Hunter just put a bullet from a Magnum .44 through his brain. It’s the death of fun, Ralph.’
Hunter always said to me that he would feel trapped in this life if he didn’t know that he could commit suicide at any moment. He was the greatest person I ever met in my life.
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Ralph Steadman when asked if he remembered what he was doing when he heard Hunter S. Thompson had committed suicide (via nostalgiache)Gonzo’s Honest Run
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Happy birthday to Ralph Steadman, whose illustrations perfectly embodied Hunter S. Thompson’s style, and who somehow survived their partnership.
Written under duress by Hunter S. Thompson
Sketched with eyebrow pencil and lipstick by Ralph Steadman
“I hate to say this, but this place is getting to me. I think I’m getting the Fear.”
Dr. Gonzo
Ralph Steadman pays homage to an old friend.
Hunter S. Thompson graffiti near where I live.
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“The Sheriff,” a portrait of HST by Ralph Steadman
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“The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
- Hunter S. Thompson
HUNTER S. THOMPSON on Ralph Steadman
ED: How does he behave in public when you’ve been with him?
HST: He’s deceptively mild in public, although every once in a while he’ll run amok. He behaved pretty well at the Derby, even though he was drunk the whole time.
ED: Drunk
HST: He’s constantly drunk, in public —
(America by Ralph Steadman, San Francisco Straight Arrow Press, 1974)
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Hunter showing Ralph how to fire his stun gun. Photo courtesy of Ralph Steadman.
ralph_steadman_for_no_good_reason (by ODDtaylor)
Ralph Steadman (the artist who did illustrations for Hunter S. Thompson works (among others)) sitting with Johnny Depp (who played Hunter S. Thompson in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas).
DON’T DRAW, RALPH! IT’S A FILTHY HABIT!
- HST
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