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S. Clay Wilson. Steve Clay Wilson (July 25, 1941 – February 7, 2021) was an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Wilson attracted attention from readers with aggressively violent and sexually explicit panoramas of lowlife denizens, often depicting the wild escapades of pirates and bikers.
- Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame, 1992
- July 25, 1941, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
- American
- February 7, 2021 (aged 79), San Francisco, California, U.S.
Feb 9, 2021 · Clay Wilson/Zap Comix. S. Clay Wilson, the most scabrous and rollicking of the underground cartoonists who first achieved notoriety as contributors to Zap Comix in the late 1960s, died on Sunday ...
Feb 8, 2021 · S. Clay Wilson passed away on February 7th, 2021 from complications related to previously inflicted injuries. His death was initially announced on Facebook and later confirmed by those close to him. S. Clay Wilson might well be knocking back shots in Hell with the Checkered Demon and his cohorts, the monsters and zombies and miscreants who ...
May 22, 2023 · Quick Facts: Full Name – Stephen Wilson Jr. Birthdate – July 11th. Hometown – Seymour, Indiana. Current City – Nashville, Tennessee. Musical Influences – Willie Nelson as a guitar player and singer, Roy Orbison as a singer and songwriter, The National (the band), John Mellencamp, and George Jones. Label – Big Loud Records.
Feb 10, 2021 · A page from the 1967 “S. Clay Wilson Twenty Drawings” portfolio, which helped start the artist’s career in San Francisco. Photo: Courtesy Patrick Rosenkranz. Subversives like Wilson were naturally inspired to violate these standards in their comix (as opposed to comics) and get their 20- or 30-page illustrated softbound stories out there.
- Sam Whiting
Feb 10, 2021 · S. Clay Wilson, an underground cartoonist whose unabashedly violent, sexually exuberant and savagely funny artwork burst out of the pages of Robert Crumb’s Zap Comix series in the late 1960s ...
Feb 14, 2020 · Now compare Wilson's 1966 poster for Muddy Waters with any of Alphonse Mucha's haloed Art Nouveau ladies. The first major modern Mucha exhibit had just occurred at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, and Mucha was all the rage, with other psychedelic poster artists like Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse also drawing from the Art Nouveau master.
