Skull/"Men Don't Know" Flyer (Nick Knox Collection)

Original Cramps-designed flyer in the cut-and-paste graphic vocabulary the band assembled themselves throughout their formative late-1970s period — collaged horror-movie iconography, distressed typography, and the deliberate collapse of high and low cultural reference that defined every aspect of the Cramps' visual presentation, from the personal collection of Nick Knox, the band's drummer for nearly the entire run of the group. Flyers from this period seldom survived past the gigs being promoted; an example with this level of attribution is exceptional.

PROVENANCE:

From the personal collection of Nick Knox (1958–2018), drummer of The Cramps from 1977 until 1991

LITERATURE:

Illustrated in Pretty Vacant: The Graphic Language of Punk, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, 2014), p. 48