A rare and little-documented underground artist’s book by Andy Poynor (1948–2009), produced at the intersection of psychedelic comix and early 1970s media culture. Composed entirely of black-and-white line drawings—many signed in the plate “AP” or “A. Poynor”—the work presents a sequence of surreal, often hallucinatory images featuring anthropomorphic rabbits, distorted human figures, shoes, fish, duck masks, and recurring patterned and mandala-like compositions. Several plates explore themes of communication, broadcast media, and human-machine interaction.
4to (9” x 12”), stapled wrappers, 34 pages, b/w illustrations throughout, including a fold-out plate. Self-published in 1971. Printed via offset on heavier stock, suggesting a deliberate small-run production rather than mimeograph or Xerox duplication typical of ephemeral zines. Copyright statement on inside rear wrapper: “All drawings copyrighted Andy Poynor 1971.”
Poynor, who lived and worked variously in California, Texas, the United Kingdom, and Missouri, is also credited with the cover illustration for Radical Software Vol. I, No. 3 (Spring 1971), a foundational publication of early video and cybernetic media culture.
OCLC locates a single recorded copy of Rabbit Fever, held by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, catalogued as an artist’s book and preserved as part of the Franklin Furnace Collection —a provenance conferring footing within the early history of alternative artist publishing.
Bumping and rubbing to extremities, with light soiling to wrappers. One damp stain to front wrapper, affecting only the first leaf.
A rare and little-documented underground artist’s book by Andy Poynor (1948–2009), produced at the intersection of psychedelic comix and early 1970s media culture. Composed entirely of black-and-white line drawings—many signed in the plate “AP” or “A. Poynor”—the work presents a sequence of surreal, often hallucinatory images featuring anthropomorphic rabbits, distorted human figures, shoes, fish, duck masks, and recurring patterned and mandala-like compositions. Several plates explore themes of communication, broadcast media, and human-machine interaction.
4to (9” x 12”), stapled wrappers, 34 pages, b/w illustrations throughout, including a fold-out plate. Self-published in 1971. Printed via offset on heavier stock, suggesting a deliberate small-run production rather than mimeograph or Xerox duplication typical of ephemeral zines. Copyright statement on inside rear wrapper: “All drawings copyrighted Andy Poynor 1971.”
Poynor, who lived and worked variously in California, Texas, the United Kingdom, and Missouri, is also credited with the cover illustration for Radical Software Vol. I, No. 3 (Spring 1971), a foundational publication of early video and cybernetic media culture.
OCLC locates a single recorded copy of Rabbit Fever, held by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, catalogued as an artist’s book and preserved as part of the Franklin Furnace Collection —a provenance conferring footing within the early history of alternative artist publishing.
Bumping and rubbing to extremities, with light soiling to wrappers. One damp stain to front wrapper, affecting only the first leaf.
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