Charles Bukowski was an American author who wrote semi-biographical novels about is life as an alcoholic postman (and alcoholic writer later on). He is known for his unpolished, gritty, realistic writing style, as opposed to the enhanced, poetic prose of traditional writers of his time.

 

This stencil consists of a pattern of diamonds and triangles of various sizes and sharpness, which together form the face of the laughing Bukowski and create depth in a single layered stencil.