influenced heavily by william blake, both in theme and in style, aethelred eldridge's simple illustrations combined with the powerful, often puzzling, narrative text embody everything from the sacred to the mundane, from searing political statements to soaring flights of fancy, from the romantic to the grotesque, and on to the just plain strange.

eldridge's works — black and white photocopies in 4x5 slips, daily affixed to bulletin boards, doors, tree branches — and his very presence are fixtures in athens, ohio. »