He's been hustling Austin posters for 30 years, we look at the illustrated life of Billy Perkins.
Engulfing Billy Perkins in living color, Paul McCartney, Bonnie Raitt, Cherie Currie, Dee Dee Ramone, and Joe Strummer swirled a cyclone chorus of his inked and illustrated iconography. South by Southwest reconverging physically this March likewise resurrected Austin's annual poster-palooza, Flatstock.
Hardly hitching his stride, Perkins dished out jokes, laughter, and ecstatic art that afternoon, the brilliant gleam in his sky-blue eyes lighting the perimeters of his stall. Warm, unceasingly genial, innately Texan, he greeted one and all at the Austin Convention Center like only they populated the enormous ballroom. Behind him, Samuel L. Jackson argued gun control, Fleetwood Mac towered toward the moon, and Ronnie James Dio threw horns.
Richard Perkins, who his mother met and fell in love with while still expecting, adopted both Billy and Kevin after his birth. The following year, 1967, Perkins volunteered for the war in Vietnam. Spat on at the airport by demonstrators, his return stateside marked a troubled existence., fresh off the boat – they're telling him, 'All right, here's a map.
"They put the gloves on us, on a thin little mat on the concrete. 'Ding, ding,' motherfucker, and it's ON. There's no break in the action and nothing but punches flying. And I got caught, boom. For a split second, I thought, 'Oh, man, this is embarrassing.' That's the last I remember, so he either knocked me out or when I fell backward, I whacked my head on the concrete.
Perkins credits the aforementioned publishers, illustrators, and storytellers for his stint as a reigning spelling bee, so directly over a whole row of Avengers on the comic stand hangs his 1987 Commercial Art BFA from Texas State University.
A 100-watt white owl with different-colored eyes to promote its protean lifeforce's similar condition – David Bowie at the Backyard in 2004, Ziggy Stardust's last tour – grasps Perkins' style: bright, nature-loving, with a comic whimsy that's never crude, yet pleasingly rounded. His posters pop like animation cells, as if you're waiting for them to start moving.
"He's a favorite of ZZ Top, Cheech & Chong, Metallica, and Cheap Trick to name just a few. His series called '77' clearly channels Guy Juke." Standing in the dappled, late-morning light of the foyer to her Temple home a week after Billy, her kid, endured an afternoonlong grilling, she radiates a ramrod spirit blazing through steely blues eyes. Widowed in March 2021 after 20 years of her fifth marriage, the mother of two – younger son Kevin works in Austin and helps raise her only granddaughter in Cedar Park – underwent heart surgery 10 days later to replace an aortic valve.
Married, divorced, and remarried not long afterward – all to Billy Don Mayes, who Billy and Kevin interacted with briefly as adults – Peggy Perkins sustained tempestuous households through Chic, which operates today by appointment only. She points to the sink where Billy's baby bed sat directly home from the hospital, then at the kitchenette.
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