“I know Pettibon despises the punk rock connection his work always conjures up. In an intervie

“I know Pettibon despises the punk rock connection his work always conjures up. In an interview with the website Culture Creature, he unequivocally states, ‘I never considered my work part of the punk scene or music scene of any sort. It held me back. It’s still something that is kind of hard to conceive… It’s buried in time as being such a part of my background the way that people seem to think so. It really wasn’t in the first place.’ According to other interviews with him that I’ve read, the people involved in the L.A. punk scene were anti-intellectual and had little to no interest in books, especially the zines he was producing.”

On the Harrietblog, featured August blogger Brian Lucas discusses Raymond Pettibon’s zines. Read the piece here.