Abstract painting isn’t something Juxtapoz was born with, so to speak. We have had to learn and lean in a bit. As a magazine founded on underground comix and outsider art, abstraction was more in a psychedelic sense than a literal conversation. But we have grown into a bit more abstraction in the last 10 years or so, following a trend of artists who have mastered a combination of figuration with abstraction into something completey original. And, of course, there has been a resurgence in recent years of appreciating the Russian and Italian futurists of the early 20th century, and how those artists looked at the modern world and modern warfare of WWI and began to create work that was…