Updated 3 months ago
January 9, 1962 – May 6, 2023
Psychedelic flyer artist; Suicide.
Kozik started his career in designing flyers Austin in the late 80s, and graduated to mainstream success with work such as Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails. Later in life, he designs toys such as the Labbit and was very popular in Japan.
Website – Wikipedia
New York Times Obituary: The Life and Death of a ‘Punk Rock Warhol’
Trance Parties: 1990s 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010s 2020s
Outside Northeast US – Raves & Club Kids – Texas – Frank Kozik – Misc
Sorted chronologically. Click flyer for exact date. Send me any you don’t see here, or if you have better copies. Missing flyers are listed here.
I attended the University of Texas in Austin from 1986-1991. Little did I know how lucky I was to be right there, right then. Seemingly out of nowhere I started seeing a lot of very interesting and trippy flyers around town. Around the same time I bought some Flying Eyeball blotter off the Drag Worms and a few hours later it finally all made sense.
“The early Kozik, before he moved to Los Angeles, became famous, and made posters of bigger print runs, started in Austin in the punk rock scene. In 1988-89 I thought he had a bright future. I visited his studio and wrote a large article about him for the Austin Chronicle. He gave me some posters out of his files. I bought some others and started collecting him. In the punk era collecting often meant taking posters off bulletin boards.
His punk era posters are rare. I love the controversial raw energy which shocked the establishment. You can also see among these early Kozik’s the pop style developing which he was later the Kozik trademark.“
– Nightbyrd
Special note: Also check out Mike Diana’s gallery page, the first artist to ever get convicted
