Guy Colwell, "Heat Wave," Inner City Romance issue 4 wrap around cover (Last Gasp 1977)

Classic, memorable cover from Colwell. As skillful a painter as he is a storyteller and you get both with this piece, which feels like something that should be in the Lucas Museum. Did you pick it up from him?

I found it at a small auction house.  I may have been the only bidder. 

Wow! That's huge! Hope you got a good place picked out to display it. 

Over the couch, natch!

Great time capsule!  People forget how brutal the summers were when the heavy pollution of that time period trapped the heat that not even coastal winds couldn't move.  It's like the edges of the painting won't let the heat escape.  I like how the guy just suggestively lets his popsicle hang out there.