Press coverage of Motorblade Postering of Austin, TX — founded by Fritz Blaw in the early 1990s, now operated by Ricardo & Susan Acevedo of RAworx Creative.
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Austin Chronicle • July 3, 2020 • by W. A. Brenner
Reports on Ricardo Acevedo assuming ownership of Motorblade Postering after founder Fritz Blaw relocated to Philadelphia following nearly 30 years running Austin’s premier flyer-distribution service.
“Fritz discovered that I’m weird enough to assume his mantle.” — Ricardo Acevedo, on the vetting process
The piece details Acevedo’s background as a graphic designer and former punk-rock band-poster artist in California, and his plan to keep covering Austin’s Eastside, Westside, and surrounding areas through a network of legal posting locations — even as the COVID-19 pandemic was reshaping live events.
Austin Chronicle • April 14, 2020 • by W. A. Brenner
Fritz Blaw — longtime Motorblade operator and Texas Roller Derby mascot — announced he was leaving Austin after 43 years to live with his sister’s family in Philadelphia. His final Austin day was set for July 31, 2020.
“In the spirit of Easter I am reborn. I have decided to shake this Austin coil and head to Philadelphia.” — Fritz Blaw
Asked what he’d miss most: “Eavesdropping, interrupting, and being questioned by different people at over 200 groovalicious locations every month.” What he’d miss least: the feeling that his skin was becoming “air-fried from the heat, sun, and humidity.”
Austin Chronicle • August 29, 2012 • by W. A. Brenner
A profile of Frazier Peters “Fritz” Blaw after roughly two decades of working Austin’s community bulletin boards, distributing flyers across some 200 posting locations around the city.
“I’ve made it so that people in Austin expect up-to-date bulletin boards.” — Fritz Blaw
The article also covers Blaw’s side gigs — bus driving and prepping the skating track for Texas Roller Derby bouts — and how the postering business stayed steady through the city’s economic shifts. Original pricing in the early 1990s: ten dollars a week for a hundred flyers.
