The Scrawl Collective story begins in 1998 with the publication of Scrawl, Dirty Graphics and Strange Characters. (Booth Clibborn Editions). This was the first book that really picked up where Henry Chalfont’s seminal Spray Can Art and Subway Art left off. In Scrawl the growth of the 80’s graffiti scene, combined with the cultural influence of Star Wars, comic books and Japanese Anime was traced and the artists who grew out of that scene to become designers, illustrators, printers and film makers were documented. During the research of this book one of the authors Ric Blackshaw identified an as yet barely noticed development among a few young illustrators and artists centring at that time around Bristol... More about scrawl