Ray Jadwick, "Outlaw" writer, artist, adventurer, and now creator of the way-way-over-the-edge, pictorial documentation of the Trump presidency, has made a habit, throughout his "career", of producing "hit and run" pieces that, while eliciting critical praise, are more widely known for garnering the ire of the subjects of his work. In spite of a livid Mayor Rudy Giuliani ranting over Jadwick's (now somewhat prophetic) "Drunken Rudy Arrested in Wife Beating" headline of the writer's mid-90's NY Lizard satire, or venue halls cancelling scheduled "book release party" events at the last moment (at the request of the powerfully connected lampooned by the writer), Jadwick has remained steadfast and uncompromising throughout the years. Financial concerns be damned.
Billed as "A mean paper, for a mean city, with a mean mayor," in 1992 (a few years before anyone ever heard of THE ONION), Ray Jadwick, wrote, published, and released The New York Lizard onto the streets of New York City's Lower East Side. Heralded by THE VILLAGE VOICE as a "sharp parody of all things tabloid," the Lizard was celebrated by NYC's PAPER MAGAZINE, as "the parody of parodies," and featured in the magazine's A-Z of 26 New York City "must sees" during the summer of 1994.
Contributing to every issue of the Lizard was celebrated New York artist James Romberger, a frequent Ray Jadwick collaborator. It wasn't until a few months after the writer, always the adventurer, moved onto other projects, when THE ONION hit the streets, of which one reviewer wrote: "While the Onion is somewhat reminiscent of the NY Lizard, it is, unfortunately, certainly lacking the reptile's balls!"
"The names have been changed to protect the guilty," proclaimed Jadwick's book, METICA: the legend of a city. While the expose of Utica, NY sent waves of panic through powers-that-be in the city it satirized, it became popular elsewhere, due to the social similarities of all mid-sized American cities. The satire is, in fact, included in Stanford University Library's permanent collection, as part of beat poet, Allen Ginsberg's personal library collection, bequeathed to the university following the acclaimed poet's death.
Ray Jadwick's first Marvel appearance in Epic's Magazine's December, 1983 issue.
Story board 1: Ray Jadwick, writer of (and starring in), "The Condora."
You know what they say:
Once a superhero, always a super . . .
Ray Jadwick chronicles his journey through America's southwest, with illustrations by James Romberger. Published as trade paperback, a signed & numbered limited edition with colorized fold-out, and as a limited leather-bound collectors edition signed by the writer with foldout and a drop-out photograph. Produced by world-renowned letterpress artisan Dan Keleher at the Wild Carrot Letterpress in Hadley, Massachusetts.
Upstate New York's Observer Dispatch was one of the first papers to bestow Jadwick with the "outlaw writer" moniker.
While treated like a darling by the Gannet-owned paper early on, all that changed when Jadwick joined the effort to save a historic downtown neighborhood from destruction. In fact, the newspaper's editorial criticizing Jadwick's efforts won the newspaper a 2018 Gannet Editorial Award. Go figure.
Littleton, CO police added a bit of unneeded drama as Jadwick wrapped up his 1998 adventure though the American southwest. Although Denver's WESTWORD coverage of the writer's arrest was more than just a bit one-sided and unflattering, here it be. What WESTWORD failed to cover was the Devine intervention and FBI assistance that led to a slick escape for both Ray and his jeep.
From 2016 - 2021, Jadwick produced Ray Jadwick's USA, a series of social media panels focused on American politics. The subjects (or victims, as many of those featured in Jadwick's work refer to themselves as), covered a spectrum of American political figures, from Donald Trump to Andrew Cuomo. In 2021, having had his fill of the social media world, he began work on his "The Nightmare We Weathered" Donald Trump Satire. A project that he looked forward to returning him to his first love . . . the art of real books, printed on real paper!!! God save the queen.
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