"Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72". By Richard Sandomir, March 22, 2017. The New York Times, Obituaries. Skip Williamson, a rambunctious creator of underground comics that merged... Read full biography
"Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72". By Richard Sandomir, March 22, 2017. The New York Times, Obituaries. 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,... Read full biography
"Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72". By Richard Sandomir, March 22, 2017. The New York Times, Obituaries. 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 Wilmington, Vt. He was 72. The cause was renal failure, his daughter Molly Hiland Parmer said. For the underground cartoonists of the 1960s and ’70s, sex, drugs, profanity and violence... Read full biography
"Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72". By Richard Sandomir, March 22, 2017. The New York Times, Obituaries. 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 Wilmington, Vt. He was 72. The cause was renal failure, his daughter Molly Hiland Parmer said. For the underground cartoonists of the 1960s and ’70s, sex, drugs, profanity and violence were as common as superheroes in mainstream comics, and Mr. Williamson was among the most provocative. His characters were often visual grotesques, like Snappy Sammy Smoot, a dandy with googly eyes, gigantic red (or pink) lips, pomaded black hair... Read full biography
"Skip Williamson, Underground Cartoonist, Dies at 72". By Richard Sandomir, March 22, 2017. The New York Times, Obituaries. 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 Wilmington, Vt. He was 72. The cause was renal failure, his daughter Molly Hiland Parmer said. For the underground cartoonists of the 1960s and ’70s, sex, drugs, profanity and violence were as common as superheroes in mainstream comics, and Mr. Williamson was among the most provocative. His characters were often visual grotesques, like Snappy Sammy Smoot, a dandy with googly eyes, gigantic red (or pink) lips, pomaded black hair and a delicate mustache. Smoot’s naïveté placed him in counterpoint with the era’s changing politics and mores. Mr.... Read full biography
Skip (Mervyn) Williamson - Artist Info
About Skip (Mervyn) Williamson: Books
Books & Publications (6)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
We're Going to Munden's Bar
2010
Ostrander, John; Martha Thomases; Skip Williamson; William Messner-Loeb
104 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Yeah, But How Would She Look Beside the Go-Kart Trophy
1994
Batman, Nancy Jo; Skip Williamson
91 pages (color)
It's Not Polite to Play Dead at the Supper Table
1994
Batman, Nancy Jo; Skip Williamson
95 pages (color)
Skip Williamson's Naked Hostility
1992
Williamson, Skip
0 pages (color)
Halsted Street: Torment and Drama from the Hog Butcher