In the late sixties and early seventies Guy Colwell produced several very good and very political comic books, the Inner City Romances. He also fancied himself as a bit of a painter.

These pictures are taken from a short story entitled "They Can't See Us Here" which has a distinctly druggy hippy love-in feel about it.

A young man witnesses a couple making love and becomes aroused. A group of women turn up and commandeer him. Everybody takes their clothes off. Everybody makes love. Inhibitions are abandoned because "they can't see us here".

Since then he has produced the sex comic "Doll" and the "Further Adventures of Doll" before moving into painting, which he pursued modestly and with little fanfare until he painted "Abuse" which shows a scenes of prison abuse based on Abu Ghriab prison.

Lori Haigh, the owner of the Copobianco Gallery, where the painting was hung, was spat at by an angry viewer and shut the gallery and removed the painting after recieving hateful and threatening phone calls.

Nice to know a remnant of the counterculture still packs enough vitriol to irritate. Good luck to you Guy.

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