Rik Rawling

Rik Rawling


“For those who don’t know me, I’ve been an artist and writer for the past twenty years. By day I’m a not-so-mild-mannered janitor, but by night I explode in a frenzy of creative endeavour. It’s been a wild and crazy ride over the years, producing paintings, illustrations, book and album covers, comic strips, posters, tattoo flash, portraits of people’s naked girlfriends, books-comics-records reviews, articles, fiction and gonzo reportage for a long list of “clients” and publications that I can barely remember the half of but here goes: Motorhead, The Damned, Zodiac Mindwarp, Slipknot, Lasse Marhaug & Fe-Mail, Speedranch & Jansky Noise, Electric Frankenstein, Headpress, The Sound Projector, Killer Comix 2, Night of the Living Dead (3-issue series for Fantaco comics), Nightfall, Negative Burn, Interzone, Careful, Dead By Dawn, Skirocore, Naked, Trash City… it’s all a blur to be honest.”





“I have sold, lost, given away and – more often than not – destroyed most of the art I’ve produced during my life, adhering perhaps too closely to William Burroughs’ advice that one should “never hang onto a dud.” I have created more images than many full-time artists will produce in a lifetime, and I’m still not finished!”


Check out Rick Rawling’s website at: http://www.rikrawling.co.uk/