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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 · Chicago Sun-Times. By Richard Sandomir. March 22, 2017. Skip Williamson, a rambunctious creator of underground comics that merged his radical politics with his love of scatological humor, died...
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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...
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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 · Published Mar 24, 2017. The co-founder of the influential "Bijou Funnies," and creator of Snappy Sammy Smoot, has died at age 72. 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 ...
Mar 17, 2017 · Skip Williamson, 1944-2017. Mervyn “Skip” Williamson became a fly in the ointment at an early age; a thorn in the side of polite society throughout his whole life. 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 ...
Mar 20, 2017 · Of all the underground artists, few seem as simultaneously linked to their moment yet transcendently funny as “Flippy” Skip Williamson. With his flat-blacks and obsessive crosshatching, his broadly self-reflective caricatures, Williamson's combination of Kurtzman-inspired cartoonery, hallucinogenic political analysis, and midwestem ...
