 Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen's live recording, "Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas", features Franklin's armadillo art, as do the Freddie King albums, "Texas Cannonball" and "Woman Across the River".Franklin's surrealistic armadillos and other art often appeared on the cover of Austin's underground newspaper, "The Rag".According to Robert Lemmo, Franklin "catapulted to countercultural fame when his obsessively detailed and surrealistic armadillos began to fill the pages of an underground weekly called "The Rag".