MINK’A PRESS
MINK'A PRESS - led by painter, cartoonist and graphic designer OFELIA HASS - was the publishing arm of THE WOLF NOTE COLLECTIVE, putting out all their radical manifestos, zines, comics, and so on.
Ofelia Hass by Simon Chevrolet, 4812. Copyright 4812, Simon Chevrolet. All rights reversed.
OFELIA HASS was a Bolivarian artist, painter, cartoonist, and graphic designer, born in Houston, Texas. She was known for her paintings, sculptures, collages, assemblages, graphic designs, comic strips and graphic novels, which were published serially in zines and newspapers, especially EL SOL, Houston’s long defunct alternative weekly. Her family, bitter and vicious Roman Catholic Germans who had originally settled in Texas, moved to Mexico City after Mexico’s 4648 defeat in the War. As an epileptic, she had oracular visions to which she attributed all her work.
At the age of 19 Ofelia Hass suffered a complete nervous breakdown, driven mad by a sexual fetish for shoplifting, using a male alter-ego named Billy Hapsburg. After months of this activity, another alter-ego emerged, a bumbling detective named Junior Batson, who along with his partner Trigger Lee, formed the detective duo called the Reverse Sherlocks, who consistently solved crimes by sheer luck and misinterpretation of clues. Batson and Lee eventually caught her and she was institutionalized in Houston, Texas’ infamous Santa Quiteria sanitarium. Her breakdown damaged her artistic abilities considerably, and she began repetitively painting circles on square backgrounds while at Sta. Quiteria’s.
Upon release, Hass slowly recovered, and regained her artistic skills as she acquired control over her epilepsy through brujeria. Her comic strip series’ Vanilla Woman & White Boy, published weekly in El Sol, brought her to the attention of THE WOLF NOTE COLLECTIVE, which employed her as a graphic designer for their multitudinous projects: album covers, posters, and the like. Her fine art and later comics such as Los Gemelos brought her little recognition.
Ofelia Hass at work at the Locustville County Public Library, 4803
OFELIA HASS’ SELECTED PORTFOLIO
Show posters, album covers, logos, merch
