We both wanted to be Angry Artists - that’s because we were going to change the world. As we became friends, I realised we had a lot in common. ‘I remember he said he liked my line,’ Steadman recalled. ‘They always seemed to be saying something they didn’t believe and I’ve always hated the idea of dishonesty.’Īfter getting his first work published, Steadman relocated to London where he became a member of The Cartoonists’ Club and met Gerald Scarfe, the newspaper cartoonist and illustrator. ‘I didn’t have any strong political affiliations, but I did have a contempt for politicians generally,’ he told The Telegraph newspaper in 2013. Having begun training as an aircraft engineer and as a store manager at Woolworths, the 18-year-old Steadman spotted an advert in a newspaper and decided to become a cartoonist. His mother worked in a shop and his father travelled the country selling women’s clothing and underwear. Ralph Steadman was born in 1936 in the north-west of England but grew up in north Wales. And yet Jann Wenner, the proprietor of Rolling Stone, for whom the pair produced some of their most celebrated work, once said that he believed Steadman was the more unhinged of the two. Thompson was the 6ft 5in, shaven-headed writer-provocateur who wore a floppy sun hat and yellow-tinted glasses, carried a doctor’s bag filled with hallucinogenic drugs and possessed a voracious appetite for mind-altering substances of every kind, guns and chaos. Thompson and Ralph Steadman changed American journalism for ever with collaborations on stories such as The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72.
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