
Vol. 3, Issue 21
“Both Thompson and Steadman become willing participants in the debauchery that ensued. Steadman’s frenetic drawings scream out like rotoscoped Goya canvases and give a sense of the depravity swirling around them. By the end of trip, he was left physically shaking and asking for water.
‘It’s the only thing they have that’s fit for human consumption,’ he pleaded.”
-Michael Ward, “Decadence and Depravity at 50: Revisiting Hunter S. Thompson’s Gonzo”


Decadence & Depravity at 50: Revisiting Thompson’s Gonzo | Nonfiction
Fifty years ago this spring, Hunter S. Thompson wrote the article, “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved,” and assumed it would be the end of his career. “I have no story,” he told his illustrator, Ralph Steadman, in the days after they left Louisville. The...