ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Raymond Pettibon

Okay kiddo, imagine that you like to draw pictures on paper. Well, there's a man named Raymond Pettibon who likes to draw pictures too! But Raymond is very special because his pictures aren't always happy and cute. Sometimes they can be a little scary or even make you feel a bit weird.

Raymond started making these kinds of pictures when he was a grown-up, but he still used simple-looking drawings like kids might use. He would often draw pictures of famous people, like the singer Elvis or the boxer Muhammad Ali, but he would change them to look funny or strange.

Sometimes, Raymond would even add words to his pictures, kind of like a secret message that you could read while you looked at the picture. His pictures and words made people think and feel lots of different things, which is why they are really famous and people still look at them today.

So, in short, Raymond Pettibon is an artist who draws funny and sometimes creepy pictures with hidden messages to make people think and feel things.