Speaking of drawing by other means, Gary Lee-Nova messages that “after first encountering things like
Fuzz Against Junk,” he discovered Max Ernst’s collage novels, and in that neo-Victorian mode created his own collages during the mid- to late-1960s. Among his “very first” was “Immense Stone” (below). Another was “Detecting the Forgery” (left), which was later remade as a silkscreen. Much more recently, in collaboration with the late San Francisco punk rocker and writer Johnny Strike, Lee-Nova went on to making comic-strip graphic novels using the Nova Criminals/Nova Police theme of William S. Burroughs’s cut-up novels, The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, and Nova Express. This is one of their strips: