Mervyn "Skip" Williamson was an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement.
14 Facts About Skip Williamson
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Skip Williamson was born in San Antonio, Texas, but later moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, and then to Canton, Missouri.
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Skip Williamson moved to Chicago in 1967 and almost immediately teamed up with Jay Lynch to publish the underground newspaper The Chicago Mirror.
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Skip Williamson took a broader look, skewering both left-wing trendiness and right-wing over-reaction at a time of much-publicized left-wing trendiness.
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Skip Williamson designed the cover of the first printing of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book.
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Skip Williamson produced the comic book Conspiracy Capers, which featured the art of Jay Lynch, Art Spiegelman, Jay Kinney, Dan Clyne, Paul David Simon, and others.
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In 1974 Skip Williamson was the founding art director of Hustler, and in 1976 he joined the staff of Playboy.
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Skip Williamson designed album covers for blues artists like Albert Collins, Koko Taylor, Little Charlie and the Nightcats and Mudcat.
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In later years Skip Williamson concentrated on producing large-scale canvases depicting political social abomination and political treachery.
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Skip Williamson died at Albany Medical Center at 12:30 pm on March 16,2017.
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Skip Williamson's work was shown throughout Europe in the Comix 2000 traveling exhibition sponsored by the French publisher L'Association.
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Skip Williamson's art has been auctioned at Sotheby's, Christie's, and Heritage auction houses.
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In 2000 Skip Williamson exhibited his paintings in a solo show at Atlanta's Eyedrum gallery.
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Skip Williamson knows how to put together a picture, balancing color and skewed perspective as effectively as any realist painter would.