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Mervyn " Skip " Williamson (August 19, 1944 – March 16, 2017) was an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Williamson's art was published in the National Lampoon, High Times, the Realist, the Industrial Worker, the Chicago Seed, Encyclopædia Britannica and others. [1]
Mar 22, 2017 · Skip Williamson, a rambunctious creator of underground comics that merged his radical politics with his love of scatological humor, died on March 16 in a hospital in Albany, near his home in...
Mar 17, 2017 · He left this mortal coil unbowed and unrepentant on Thursday from complications of organ failure and the frailty of all flesh. He was a cartoonist who became a painter and a writer, and a firebrand during the countercultural revolution of the 1960 and '70s. He never grew up, he often said.
Skip Williamson was one of the pioneers of the 1960s U.S. underground comix movement. He is best-known for his satirical comic strip 'Snappy Sammy Smoot' (1968-1996). Williamson was co-founder of the influential underground comix magazine Bijou Funnies.
Mar 24, 2017 · Influential underground comics artist Skip Williamson passed away March 16 at a hospital in Albany, New York. He was 72. According to The New York Times , his daughter Molly Hiland Parmer attributed Williamson's cause of death to renal failure.
Mar 20, 2017 · With his flat-blacks and obsessive crosshatching, his broadly self-reflective caricatures, Williamson's combination of Kurtzman-inspired cartoonery, hallucinogenic political analysis, and midwestem moralizing made him the ideal reporter of Life in the Hog Butcher circa '68–'74.
Apr 21, 2017 · Mervyn “Skip” Williamson brought radical sensibilities, an eye for satire and a boisterous spirit to his work as an underground comics artist during the genre’s heyday in the politically...
