BY WALTER ISAACSON In addition to serving as President and CEO of The Aspen Institute, Walter Isaacson is a writer, biographer, thinker, force of nature and regular visitor to the kitchen at Owl Farm. Before coming to the Aspen Institute, Isaacson ran CNN and was Managing Editor of Time Magazine. He is the author, most […]
ALL THINGS GONZO
THE PEOPLE’S ART
BY RALPH STEADMAN Social images are both aesthetic and cogent. They are magical shorthand marks, rumbustuous traveling street theatre, cheap and accessible for the best of possible reasons – to reach the people. Much of the avalanche of engraved prints in England in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries was directed towards the lower echelons […]
A.W.P UBER ALLES
BY LYNN BURTON The Aspen Wall Posters were a lot of things, but mostly they were just flat-out funny. “He (Thompson) would come in with this stuff, and I’d just laugh myself sick. I thought even the greed-heads would have to find some humor in it,” said Aspen Wall Poster co-founder Tom Benton in a […]
FIRE IN THE NUTS
BY HUNTER S. THOMPSON INTRODUCTION BY DOUGLAS BRINKLEY One evening while editing The Proud Highway — Hunter’s first volume of selected letters — I stumbled across a cardboard box filled with frail, yellowish carbon sheets. I don’t remember the exact year, but Bill Clinton was president and Hunter was in a foul mood. We were […]
THE ASPEN WALL POSTER: A BRIEF HISTORY
BY LYNN BURTON It’s hard to tell exactly how many Aspen Wall Posters Hunter Thompson and Tom Benton produced. The bibliography in The Great Shark Hunt says there were eight wall posters. The count gets confusing though, because Wall Poster No. 7, Thompson refers to a confiscated issue as “Lost Cause Number Six,” whose place […]
