Kevin Opstedal

ARTIST BIO: Born and raised in Venice, California, editor of numerous sub-radar poetry journals and author of 12 books of poetry including the recently published chapbooks Variable High Cloudiness (The Dozens, Santa Ynez, CA), 9th & Ocean (Auguste Press, San Francisco, CA) and Next to Dreaming, or The Phone Never Rang (Angry Dog, Colorado Springs, CO). "A retired US Army colonel at a reading I gave in La Jolla said that I had eyes crazed by a thousand years of killing whales. I took it as a compliment." Represented here are a number of sketches that he's done for his various publications over the years.

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from 9th & Ocean, cover

 
from Beach Blanket Massacre, cover

 
from Beach Blanket Massacre, alternate cover

 
from Crush, cover

 
from Blue Book #5, cover

 
from Blue Book #5, title page

 
from Blue Book #7, cover

 
from Blue Book #7, title page

 
from Migraine Auras, cover

 
from Sillycon Valley, cover

 
from On the Premises, cover

 
from Fuck You, La Jolla, back cover

 
from New York Notes, cover

 
from Augustus Truhn, cover

 
from Augustus Truhn, interior

 
from Cleavon Little's Magazine, cover

 
from Cleavon Little's Magazine, back cover

 
from Joe Brainard's Magazine, cover

 
from Joe Brainard's Magazine, title page

 
from Den Del's Devil's Gate Auto Repair Magazine, cover

 
from Den Del's Devil's Gate Auto Repair Magazine, title page

 

 

 

from Gas #8, interior shots

 

 

 

 

 

 

from Gas #9, interior shots