Rooting Out Ralph Steadman

last updated April 2005

Note: most of the links on here are going to be broken for a while.

with files from John Brock, John Dinsmore and Philip Eskelin, formerly of The Bootstompers

Links

Or, you can use that miracle of the modern age, Google!

-One Over One - order prints from here.
-John Dinsmore & Associates - large collection of Steadman and gonzo, including rare books and prints.
-Anderson Press Biography
-Ralph Steadman T-Shirts - awesome must-haves.
-ABAA - bonded, antique booksellers.
-www.ralphsteadman.com - official site.
-Joe Petro, Printmaker
-Red Snapper Books - in Kent, England. Highly recommended.
-Salon review of The Grapes of Ralph
Mad God Universe - Ralph film?
-Order Teddy! Where are you? posters
-English version of the above page
-Book Page Review of Gonzo: The Art
-Order Older Prints
-Every Picture Tells A Store Store
-Henry Boxer Gallery

Semi-complete Bibliography

Books By/illustrated

A fairly good list of books, by year, which Ralph either wrote and illustrated himself or just illustrated.

1963 - Fly Away Peter by Frank Dickens
1964 - The Big Squirrel and the Little Rhinoceros (Eng. title) by Dimitri Sidjanski
1965 - Love and Marriage by Daisy and Angela Ashford
1966 - Where Love Lies Deepest by Daisy Ashford
1967 - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
1967 - Midnite; The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy by Randolph Stow (reprinted 1984)
1967 - Ralph Steadman's Jelly Book
1967 - The Thoughts of Chairman Harold compiled by Tarig Ali
1968 - The False Flamingoes by Dimitri Sidjanski
1968 - The Little Prince and the Tiger Cat by Dimitri Sidjanski
1968 - The Yellow Flowers by Fiona Saint
1969 - The Little Red Computer
1969 - Still Life with Raspberry or The Bumper Book of Steadman
1969 - The Tale of Driver Grope by Richard Ingrams

1970 - Born Under a Bad Sign by Tony Palmer
1970 - Dogs Bodies (reprinted 1977)
1970 - Midnite by Randolph Stow
1970 - Ralph Steadman's Jelly Book
1970 - Two Cats in America by M. Damjan
1971 - 150 Careers in Advertising by Patricia Longman
1971 - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson
1972 - And Sometimes It Happens by Brian Patten
1972 - Boys in a Pie by John Fuller
1972 - Ralph Steadman's Bumper to Bumper Book for Children
1972 - Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
1972 - In the Little Girl's Angel Gaze by Ted Hughes
1973 - The Rabbit by E. Lucie-Smith
1973 - Bumper Book of Boobs
1973 - Night Edge by Jane Deverson
1973 - A Little Treasury of Limericks Fair and Foul by John Letts
1973 - Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter Thompson
1974 - America w/introduction by Hunter Thompson; American ed. 1975
1974 - Flowers for the Moon
1974 - The Bridge
1974 - The Poor Mouth; A Bad Story about the Hard Life by Flann O'Brien
1974 - Two Donkeys and the Bridge
1974 - Dozy and Hawkeye by K. Baumann
1975 - The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll (anniversary ed.)
1978 - Charlie's Angels: Ralph Steadman's Royal Series
1978 - Cherrywood Cannon based on a story by Dimitri Sidjanski
1978 - Emergency Mouse by Bernard Stone
1979 - Sigmund Freud

1980 - The Threshold by Ted Hughes
1982 - Inspector Mouse by Bernard Stone
1982 - A Leg in the Wind and Other Canine Curses
1983 - The Curse of Lono by Hunter Thompson
1983 - I Leonardo (also Life of Leonardo Di Vinci)
1983 - No Good Dogs
1984 - Between the Eyes
1984 - The Devil in Texas by Wolf Mankowitz
1985 - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
1986 - Paranoids; From Socrates to Joan Collins
1986 - That's My Dad
1987 - The Complete Alice, and The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
1987 - Scar Strangled Banger
1987 - Proud Monster by Ian MacMillan
1988 - The Big I Am
1989 - Asleep at the Wheel by Catherine Moye
1989 - No Room to Swing a Cat

1990 - Near the Bone
1990 - Tales of the Weirrd
1991 -
1992 - Quasimodo Mouse by Ralph Steadman and Bernard Stone
1992 - The Grapes of Ralph 1993
1994 - The Grapes of Ralph (American ed?)
1994 - Teddy! Where Are You?
1995 - Animal Farm; A Fairy Story by George Orwell
1995 - Jones of Colorado
1997 - Still Life with Bottle
1998 - Gonzo: The Art
1999 - Where does one go... by Harry Crews
1999 - The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

2000 - Little.com
2002 - Doodaaa : The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge

MAGAZINES

Cycle World

March 1996, "Song of the Sausage Creature" by Hunter Thompson

Linus

April 1969, Theo

Maxim

October 1998, "Go to hell"

Men's Journal

March 1999, illustration for "Health" section

Playboy

May 1988, "The Strange and Twisted Vision of Ralph Steadman" by Hunter S. Thompson
June 1975, Mohammed Ali

January 2004

Raygun

The Wrath of Ralph by Kevin P. Simonson

Vanity Fair

June 2004, Prisoner of Denver by HST and Mark Seliger

Rolling Stone

RS 95, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter Thompson
RS 96, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pt 2" by Hunter Thompson
RS 115, "Old Bulls Meet the Butcher" by Hunter Thompson
RS 118, "Fear and Loathing in Miami" by Hunter Thompson
RS 131, "The Warrior's Return", title of illustration
RS 144, "Fear and Loathing at the Watergate" by Hunter S. Thompson (inc. cover)
RS 169, "The Quitter" (Nixon impeachment) + Gardening Hint No. 17
RS 171 "The Scum Also Rises" by Hunter Thompson + Gardening Hint No. 19
RS 183, Gardening Hint No. 24
RS 187, "Gardening Hint No. 30"
RS 196, "Ralph Steadman's Disneyland"
RS 198, Gardening Hint No. 37
RS 204, Gardening Hint No. 40
RS 206, Gardening Hint No. 45
RS 223, "Rituals of the Herd by John Dean and Ralph Steadman
RS 254, "The Last Page"
RS 265, "Gardening" by Ralph Steadman
RS XXX, 1979 Year in Review
RS 318, "Gonzo Goes to Hollywood" by Ralph Steadman
RS 582, "The Trial of Hunter S. Thompson" by Mike Sager
RS 605, "The Taming of the Shrew" by Hunter S. Thompson
RS 622, "Fear and Loathing in Elko" by Hunter Thompson
RS 632, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson (RS 25th anniversary)
RS 697, "Polo is my Life" by Hunter S. Thompson
RS 748, P.J. O'Rourke Interviews Hunter S. Thompson

note: a selection of Watergate cartoons was also published in Twenty Years of Rolling Stone anniversary book.

Running Magazine

4/81, "The Charge of the Weird Brigade" by Hunter S. Thompson

Scanlan's Monthly

5/70, "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" by Hunter S. Thompson

Vogue

June 1969 - "Laughing at Themselves"

RESOURCES

Yes, it's quite easy to root Ralph out. Try these books and reference sources.

Gadfly, June 1998, interview with Ralph Steadman and photographs.

Plimpton, George, Shadow Box. 197x, p235-238

Who's Who in Graphic Art. 1982. vol.2. pp.428-429.

Contemporary Authors. vol.107. 1983. pp.490-491. Bio-bibliographical entry.

Something About The Author. vol.32. 1983. pp.179-181. Bio-bibliographical entry.

Thompson, Hunter S. Generation of Swine; Tales of Shame & Degradation in the '80's. NY, Summit Books, 1988. Gonzo Papers. vol.2. Includes references to Steadman, letters to Steadman.

Groth, Gary. "Into the Gentle Darkness of Ralph Steadman." THE COMICS JOURNAL. Seattle. no.131 (September 1989). pp.40-91. Color cover illustration by Steadman. Lengthy, detailed interview. Many B&W photos and illustrations from Steadman's works.

Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series. vol.29. 1990. pp.404-406. Bio-bibliographical entry on Steadman.

Thompson, Hunter S. Songs of the Doomed. NY, Summit Books, 1990. Gonzo Papers. vol.3. Includes references to Steadman, including letters, introduction letter from Steadman.

Marantz, Sylvia, and Kenneth Marantz. Artists of the Page; Interviews with Children's Book Illustrators. 1992. Steadman interview, pp.219-226.

Perry, Paul. Fear and Loathing; The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson. 1992. Color cover dust caricature of Thompson and Steadman [from Fear and Loathing in Elko]. References to the Steadman / Thompson relationship throughout.

Carroll, E. Jean. Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson. 1993. HST bibliography, pp.283-341. References to the Steadman / Thompson relationship throughout, includes picture of Steadman.

Whitmer, Peter O. When the Going Gets Weird: The Twisted Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson; A Very Unauthorized Biography. 1993. References to the Steadman / Thompson relationship throughout.

International Who's Who 1993-1994. 57th ed. 1993. p.1,492. Bio-bibliographical entry on Steadman.

Who's Who 1994. 1994. pp.1,807-1,808. Bio-bibliographical entry on Steadman.