RAYMOND PETTIBON / Tripping Corpse 6

Raymond Pettibon
Tripping Corpse 6  1985
Offset print of ink on paper, 28 pages
22 x 14cm, 1st edition 
SST Pubs

#103 of 500. Approximately 400 copies from the edition were later destroyed. Hand-numbered by Raymond Pettibon in red ink on the front cover.

Condition: Very good. Mild toning from age.

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Published by SST Publications in 1985, Tripping Corpse 6 is the sixth instalment of Raymond Pettibon's seminal Tripping Corpse series. Produced while Pettibon was creating record sleeves, flyers and artist's books for the Southern California punk underground, these self-published zines mark the beginning of one of the most influential drawing practices of the late twentieth century.

Throughout the Tripping Corpse series, Pettibon dismantles the mythology of the American 1960s, weaving together psychedelia, Charles Manson, violence, religion and popular culture through his unmistakable pairing of hand-drawn imagery and fragmented text. Rather than offering a linear narrative, the pages unfold as a sequence of unsettling associations that expose the paranoia, humour and contradictions embedded within American life.

This copy is hand-numbered 103/500 by Pettibon in red ink. With the majority of the edition destroyed, surviving copies are exceptionally scarce.