“Kozik was a punk rock Warhol,” said the artist Shepard Fairey. “He was all about subverting culture. Even his most famous character, Labbit, it might look cute, but it’s about subverting culture. To hear he’s now been unsung, I think, is something he’d have fun being bitter about.”As Mr. Kozik told it in interviews, his penchant for defiance could be traced to his youth. It was there, in the city’s punk scene, that Mr. Kozik found his calling.

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