 While at UT she performed with a folk trio called the Waller Creek Boys and frequently socialized with the staff of the campus humor magazine "The Texas Ranger".According to Freak Brothers cartoonist Gilbert Shelton, who befriended her, she used to sell "The Texas Ranger", which contained some of Shelton's early comic books, on the campus.Joplin cultivated a rebellious manner and styled herself partly after her female blues heroines and partly after the Beat poets.