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About Me

I'm a renegade artist despised by the Art Community and regarded as a carbuncle on Propriety's nutsack by Society-at-Large. But what the heck, it's a living. During my lifetime I've plumbed the art underground and swum the carnal fleshpool of publishing. In the late 60s I made comix with Robert Crumb and illustrated my friend Abbie Hoffman's "Steal this Book". I was the founding art director of Hustler and art directed at Playboy during the preposterous disco decade ('75 to '85). Currently I produce large cartoon canvasses depicting social abomination, sexual equivocation and political treachery. And 3D art that's constructed from toys glued into depraved configurations , gold paint, red glitter, hanging chains and beads -- like obscure relics of an alien religion. I'm bringin' the bling! Metaphysically speaking.I love drawing women. I'm producing a book of my drawings of women. During my adult life I've been surrounded by females, and I prefer their company to that of males (who always leave the toilet seat up). I've had three wives and four daughters. My best friends are women. I have a strong female side. It's called Multiple Personality Disorder. When a woman has my attention I like to peel back the layers -- like an onion -- trying vainly to find out what's going on in there until tears stream down my face. I'm a hopeless romantic in an hopelessly unromantic world.I'm an anarchist, a proponent of Chaos Theory and a great cook (Maybe they won't shoot the cook). I'm a cartoonist and a writer. I'm a pagan who doesn't follow the the Party Line, a loose canon in the genepool. I've got milage on the odometer and the dogged sagacity that occassionally comes with age.I'm writing a book about my life and art titled "My Bitter Agenda", and my blog on MySpace is an arena where I can post preliminary chapters and get a little feedback. Since I'm continually adding pages to the blog, in order to view everything I written click on "Older" in the Blog Archive.There's also an additional blog at skipwilliamson.blogspace.com that has a couple of longer items than here on MySpace.And, if you can't get enough of all things Flippy Skippy, check out skipwilliamson.com

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Integrity, talent, intelligence, luminosity, facility, guile and tomfoolery all rolled up in a incendiary package!!!Subcatagories: Mutants, Sideshow Geeks, Miscreants, Anarchists, Antichrists, Outlaws, Deranged Hookers, Diddlers, Devolutionaries, Restless Souls, Rapacious Hearts, Awkward Technogeeks, Polymorphus Perverts, Disreputable Libertines, Trailerpark Trash, Passionate Artisans, Enthusiatic Interns, Vulgar Poets, Malevolent Demigods, Angry Houswives, Truculent Necromancers and Artwhores

My Blog

Check out this event: The Irreverent Art of Skip Williamson

Hosted By: Vinson GalleryWhen: Friday Aug 29, 2008 at 6:00 PMWhere Vinson Gallery119 East Court SquareDecatur, GA 30030United StatesDescription:Vinson Gallery Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:44:00 GMT

My Art

The idea than Man evolved from monkey-like lower primates doesn't sit well with me. I think it's more likely he evolved from some other more caustic and parasitic specie. A malevolent specter, early...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:35:00 GMT

DISPROPORTIONATE PRAISE

During the mid-1980s my old friend John Sinclair (former Chairman of the White Panther Party, manager and primary creative force behind the MC5 and blues scholar) was managing an Ann Arbor based urban...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:24:00 GMT

THE RIGHTEOUS ONE

I met 'Righteous' Bob Rudnick in 1970. He was a free-form disc-jockey on WGLD, broadcasting on the FM band "from the heart of honky heaven" (he would intone nightly). His show was Kokaine Karma and...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:53:00 GMT

THE ICE PLANT

When I was in high school and in college I worked at the Canton Ice and Fuel Company, the Ice Plant. It was hard physical labor and of all the jobs I've had in my life it was one of my favorites. My b...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:43:00 GMT

BUSHWHACKED

During late summer in 1978 I was in a bar with Anneliese. We'd known each other since we were kids but it was only recently that we'd started having sex. She was a German girl, naturally light blond...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:51:00 GMT

WITH CHRISTINA

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads." -- Erica JongI was doing some work at an Atlanta art gallery where Christina Gusek, an artist...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:05:00 GMT

ABBIE HOFFMAN

"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, genera...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:39:00 GMT

INTERVIEW 1969

INTERVIEW FROM LITTLE LADIES, A FANZINE PUBLISHED BY JANE LYNCH, DISTRIBUTED TO "THE WIVES AND SWEETHEARTS OF AMERICA'S TOP CARTOONISTS" (1969)We are privileged this month to have a very special inter...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:05:00 GMT

POSSUM HOLLER OPRY

It was 1965, I'd completed my sophomore year at Culver-Stockton college when a summer job opportunity came my way.Possum Holler Opry was a country and western jamboree television show that was broadca...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:42:00 GMT