Ace Backwords
Born	( 1956-09-12 ) September 12, 1956 (age 67) New Jersey
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist , Writer, Penciller
Official website

Peter Labriola (born September 12, 1956), better known by the pen name Ace Backwords is an American author and a former underground cartoonist based in Berkeley, California . He sleeps rough on the streets of Berkeley, but is not indigent. ^{[1] [2]}

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Backwords, born Peter Labriola, published Twisted Image , a punk rock tabloid , from 1982 to 1984 featuring interviews with Johnny Rotten , Jello Biafra , Henry Rollins , Charles Bukowski , R.   Crumb , and Charles Schulz . The name was also used for a comic strip he created and distributed to independent publications. From 1989 to 2004, Backwords and B.   N. Duncan  [ fr ] produced the Telegraph Avenue Calendar , which featured selected people in Berkeley that were homeless. ^[3] A collection of his comics, also entitled Twisted Image , was published by Loompanics in 1991. In 1993, he drew original comic strips for John Hoffman's book The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving , also published by Loompanics. In 2001, Loompanics published a non-fiction book by Backwords, a sort of how-to guide for street people titled Surviving on the Streets: How To Go Down Without Going Out.

In 2009, Backwords published his next book, Acid Heroes , about 1960s icons John Lennon , Ram Dass , Alan Watts , Hunter S. Thompson , R.   Crumb, and Jerry Garcia .

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• Official website
• Comics by Ace Backwords
• Homeless artist

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