" After joining the band Rollins would sometimes watch Pettibon draw, admiring his work ethic and the fact that he did not make telephone calls or sit for interviews.

" Pettibon also sold pamphlet books of his work through SST, with titles such as Tripping Corpse, New Wave of Violence, and The Bible, the Bottle, and the Bomb, and did artwork for other SST acts such as the Minutemen.

The name was suggested by Ginn's brother, artist Raymond Pettibon, who also designed the band's logo: a stylized black flag represented as four black bars.

The band's logo was created by artist Raymond Pettibon to symbolize their themes of rebellion and anarchy.

Greg Ginn's brother Raymond Ginn, under the pseudonym Raymond Pettibon, created the artwork for all of the band's studio releases with the exceptions of Damaged and the " TV Party " single, as well as providing artwork for the band members to transform into merchandise and gig flyers.

Pettibon became irate and he and Ginn stopped speaking for some time, though his artwork continued to be used for the remainder of the band's career.

The band's name originates from the cover art done by Raymond Pettibon for Sonic Youth's 1990 release Goo.

In addition, Pettibon has designed the cover of the 1991 Sonic Youth album, " Goo "; bassist Kim Gordon had been a longtime admirer of Pettibon's art and written about him for Artforum in the 1980s.

Pettibon ’ s drawings encompass the spectrum of American culture from the deviances of marginal youth-culture to art, literature, sports, religion, politics, and sexuality.

In 2002, he had a solo exhibition, Raymond Pettibon Plots Laid Thick, organized by Museu D ’ art Contemporani de Barcelona ( MACBA ), which traveled to Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo and GEM, Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Cover art by Raymond Pettibon.

" Pettibon also felt pigeonholed by his association with the band, and had a falling out with them in 1985 over artwork used on the cover of the Loose Nut album, which had been used for a flyer several years earlier.

In 2008, Pettibon participated in the California Biennial, organized by Lauri Firstenberg, which featured one of his works as a large billboard on the Sunset strip in Los Angeles.

In 2007, Pettibon participated in the Venice Biennial, Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present Tense, curated by Robert Storr for which he created a unique wall drawing installation.

Pettibon ’ s artwork appeared on fliers, album covers and gift items ( T-shirts, stickers and skateboards ) for Black Flag through the early 1980s, and he became well known in the Los Angeles punk rock scene.

In the early 1990s, fellow artist Mike Kelley played guitar on an album of songs that Pettibon recorded for the independent label Blast First out of New York and London.

That same year, Pettibon participated in the Whitney Biennial for the third time and was awarded the prestigious Bucksbaum Award for his installation of drawings.

In 2007, Dominic Molon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago organized an exhibition titled, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967, and included a selection of Pettibon ’ s original drawings from Black Flag concert flyers and album covers.

In 2003, Pettibon was awarded the Grand Prize of Honor for his participation in the 25th Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Slovenia.

For the 2004 Whitney Biennial, Pettibon was invited to create an installation of drawings for the exhibition.

Most recently, Pettibon was awarded the University of Vienna's Oscar Kokoschka Prize for 2010.

Monographs of Pettibon ’ s work include: Raymond Pettibon, published by Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga for his solo exhibition in 2006 at the museum in Malaga, Spain and subsequently traveled to the kestnergesellschaft in Hannover, Germany.

Recent visiting artists have included Richard Tuttle, Andrea Fraser, Omer Fast, Rirkrit Tiravanija, DJ Spooky, Kalup Linzy, Elizabeth Peyton, Mel Chin, Thomas Hirschhorn, Raymond Pettibon, Rodney Graham, Isaac Julien, Dave Hickey, Vito Acconci, and many others.

( Many of these earlier stories had previously been published by SST Records as Selfishness, with illustrations by Raymond Pettibon.

Ginn's brother Raymond Pettibon and SST house record producer-to-be Spot filled in during rehearsals.

Pettibon stated " If a white flag means surrender, a black flag represents anarchy.

Pettibon also created much of their cover artwork.

When the band found it necessary to change their name from Panic in 1977, it was Pettibon who suggested the new name Black Flag and designed their iconic logo: four vertical black rectangles comprising a stylized rippling black flag.

Pettibon later remarked that " my values are relativistic, and I ’ ll give a cop the benefit of the doubt.

Pettibon himself recalls that " These drawings just represented what I was thinking.

Ginn's brother Raymond Pettibon and SST house record producer-to-be Spot filled in sometimes at rehearsals.

The book, printed in both English and French, contains all of Watt's song lyrics from the Minutemen era as well as the tour journal he wrote during the Minutemen's only European tour with Black Flag, essays by former SST co-owner Joe Carducci, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, and Blue Öyster Cult lyricist and longtime Watt hero Richard Meltzer, and illustrations by Raymond Pettibon that had been used in all of the Minutemen's album artwork.

Raymond Pettibon ( born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957 in Tucson, Arizona ) is an American artist who lives and works in Venice Beach, California.

Ginn, an English teacher who published several spy novels, Pettibon grew up in Hermosa Beach, California.

Initially, Pettibon had been a bass player in the group when it was known by the name Panic.

When the band discovered that another band called Panic existed, Pettibon suggested the name Black Flag and designed their distinctive " four bars " logo.

Around the same time, Pettibon adopted his new surname, from the nickname petit bon ( good little one ) given to him by his father.

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