Birth of Insanity

by Johnny Olson on May 16, 2024 :: 2 comments

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Jerome Berglund
August 25, 2024 at 10:45 am

Extraordinary! :o Such a unique and intriguing style, with the otherwordliness of Dali or Magritte, yet the pathos and feeling of Barker and R. Crumb… ️‍️‍️‍

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  Johnny Olson
  August 25, 2024 at 10:47 am
  
  Wow! Such fine praise about my painting. I love and admire all the artist’s your referred to. Thanks for the kind words, Jerome!
  
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A bit about Johnny: Johnny Olson was born on a brisk November day in 1970 in Chicagoland. He found his feet & cut his teeth in the blue-collared working class neighborhoods of his hometown. In 1988 he was reborn in MCRD San Diego, where he found himself the new title of United States Marine. After surviving the Gulf War, he hung up his BDUs & turned in his rifle to instead grab his pen & brush where he rediscovered his passion for writing & painting. In 1998 he found himself in Dallas, where what was supposed to be a brief stint in the South turned into a couple/few decades… & counting.

In 1999, Johnny, with a couple of other mad cohorts, started Mad Swirl. This 'zine project has now evolved into a being all its' own. After wearing too many hats, he now only wears a few at Mad Swirl: Chief Editor, Creative Director & Host at Mad Swirl's monthly Open Mic night & Mad Swirl's Quarterly podcast, "Inside the Eye."

Johnny’s work first appeared in print in 1996 in the now defunct Lip Magazine. Since then, his words & images have found their way onto a few online and printed zines thru the years. To name a few: Mad Swirl: Issues I-VI, The Best of Mad Swirl : 2017-2025, Haggard & Halloo, 10k Poets, PAO Productions: The Open Mic Project & Voices: The Beat Goes On!

Check out Johnny's Gallery page right here

Check out Johnny's Poetry page right here