Poster art history question

[Salcanzonieri]

Any gigposter history buffs here, if you please.

Who was making gigposters in a major way, not one or two, in the 1980s?

Early 80s was the punk artists like Pushead, Mad Marc Rude, Raymond Pettibone, etc.

But from 1985 on, who was doing real gigposters, pre the 1990s boom?

Art Chantry, who else?

Kozik started from around then and didn't do it in a major way til 1990s too.

Uncle Charlie?

Can any of you guys just give me a quick rundown of who was making real posters and where they were from?

thanks

[lil_tuffy]

Gary Grimshaw
Dennis Loren, maybe.
KRK Ryden
Patrick Nagel

[MaximumFluoride]

Jagmo maybe?

[lil_tuffy]

Hatch Show Print

[Barry Obama]

I did about 250-300 posters, all 1 to 4 color offset 1982-1991. switched to silkscreens in 91.

there where not 2 mqny people...the Ed Hall guys did a great series of about 50 pieces back then....Seth did a bunch, Richard Mather, Jason Austin...a few others.

I was not aware of a 'consistently producing poster artist' outside of the Crime series and pettibon.

then again, I rarely left Texas back then. the Fucked upo and fotocopied book pretty much covers 90% of the earlier 80's shit.

[John A]

street level, the bands themselves, fans picked it up for the punk scene. in Texas it was Randy "Biscuit "Turner, Averil, JR Delgado, Kevin Bakos, Kozik and then later 80's Lindsey Kuhn, Lance, Uncle Charlie, Lee Bolton, Jason Austin, Lyman hardy, etc etc.

edit - Gibby Haynes


and basically anyone that had a band would get that stuff up there... truly the cliche'd DIY thing.

[lil_tuffy]

Jello Biafra
James Stark
Winston Smith

[ricv64]

Jonathon Postal late 70's, John Seabury or do flyers not count ?

[Dirk Fowler]

Jagmo definitely.

Weren't Juke, Priest, Franklin, Garrett, all the Armadillo guys still making a lot of posters in the 80s?

[Salcanzonieri]

thanks, that's all somewhat helpful.

Trying to get a handle on the 80s for the book history chapter.

Most big rock gigs used those crappy admat posters, photo stuff to promote shows.

So, it's mostly the indie bands that made their own flyers and posters.
Lots of hardcore punk artists making flyers til 1984, then thats gone as they moved on to making record covers.

I know there were people making posters like they did in the 90s, but it seems that not that many people were doing that, til things went into full swing in the 90s (and that's because computers made things easier?)