Rafael de Soto, one of the best pulp practitioners, once said, “If a pretty girl says, ‘I want to go to bed with you, because I like you,’ that's fine art. If a pretty girl says, ‘I want to go to bed with you, but it's a hundred bucks,’ that's commercial art.”
For Hunter S. Thompson’s seminal piece of gonzo revelation, ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,’ the illustrator’s byline read, “Sketched with eyebrow pencil and lipstick by Ralph Steadman.”
