From ’80s Street Art to Graphic Novels. And Back.

Richard McGuire in his Tribeca studio with new posters in the style of his 1979-82 Ixnae Nix works.
"It’s hard to imagine many people becoming emotional over a nondescript alley in downtown New York. But the illustrator and graphic novelist Richard McGuire sounded downright wistful as he gazed out the back window of his fifth-floor studio at Cortlandt Alley — which once led to the Mudd Club, a much-mythologized dawn-of-the-’80s nightspot. Yet he wasn’t feeling nostalgic for his time onstage there, playing bass with his band Liquid Liquid. Rather he was focused on the alley itself, where he had once spent many late nights furtively looking over his shoulder for passing police cars as he wheatpasted handmade posters of his alien-like Ixnae Nix character onto the walls. ..."
NY Times
Alden Projects - Richard McGuire: Art for the Street – 1978-1982

Ixnae Nix amid downtown’s “babel of competing images,” in 1979.