Ned Sonntag
Outermost Hoodoo Doctor
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To accompany last week's old SCREW cover this is the other really good one from the period, maybe '81, Somehow this corresponded to a traditional Korean duck-goddess, such that all the Korean news dealers in NYC put a bundle of these, art side up in their doorways to bring good luck. Al Goldstein was pleased by a spike in sales that week! This presaged my cover art for DIMENSIONS Magazine that began in '85, and depicts my wife Katy; we'd just moved in together. My Ice Age Mythology/Archaic Revival theories about the Paleolithic worship of Willendorfian Venuses were striking a chord of recognition with folks of a far-flung culture...
To accompany last week's old SCREW cover this is the other really good one from the period, maybe '81, Somehow this corresponded to a traditional Korean duck-goddess, such that all the Korean news dealers in NYC put a bundle of these, art side up in their doorways to bring good luck. Al Goldstein was pleased by a spike in sales that week! This presaged my cover art for DIMENSIONS Magazine that began in '85, and depicts my wife Katy; we'd just moved in together. My Ice Age Mythology/Archaic Revival theories about the Paleolithic worship of Willendorfian Venuses were striking a chord of recognition with folks of a far-flung culture...
