Art of Clay Wilson

série: Underground (US)
dessinateur / scénariste: Wilson Clay
éditeur: Ten Speed EO 2006
genre: Porno
classement: biblio1
date: 2006
format: cartonné, avec jaquette
état: TBE/N
valeur: 20 €
critère: **
remarques: a full color book of 150 pages about
filthy, dirty, crudy, nasty and lubricious
drawings but superbly drawn
(although sometimes too overabundant)
by Clay Wilson


Introduction
among the cartoonists in this new generation,
Wilson was an art school graduate who
considered himself an art outlaw,
he saw his key function as using his
considerable graphic talents to puncture
the "booshwah" balloon in view of stripping
"the mass delusion" from the eyes
of the American middle class

all over sad and violent America, evil is
on its way back and Clay Wilson is here
to depict its emergence,
Wilson is the great inheritor of medieval
visions of blackdoom, this guy has walked
with Hieronymus Bosch long enough to know
where it's always been at, but Wilson has
his own visions with Bosch at all times
and that vision is Bosch + black humor

drawings from 1961 to 2006,
mostly with full color,
here are the main titles or characters:

- Babbs Crabb and her friend meet
Bernice, the male peg
( peg being here a short pin or bolt)
- the Rotting Zombie Madonna
- the Checkered Demon
- Dexter Heftyload, the virile pirate
- Captain Pissgums and his pervert pirates
- the Amazonian piratesses
- Bikers eating Puffins
- El Dia de Los Muertos
- the Brides of Christ

>> a book especially interesting for the
illustrations which are particular
to the style of Clay Wilson

enclosures
- front cover of the book
- various illustrations
- cover of underground magazine Zap no. 3
- illustration from Captain Pissgum
and his pervert pirates


Information
Steve Clay Wilson (born July 1941), better known
as S. Clay Wilson, is 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,
he was an early contributor to Zap Comix

Wilson's artistic audacity has been cited
by Robert Crumb as a liberating source of
inspiration for Crumb's own work,
recalling when he first saw Wilson's work
(in about 1968),

Robert Crumb said "the content was something
like I'd never seen before anywhere:
the level of mayhem, violence, dismemberment,
naked women, loose body parts, huge,
obscene sex organs, a nightmare vision
of hell-on-earth never so graphically
illustrated before in the history of art

a striking feature of Wilson's work is the
contrast between the alterate way in which
his characters speak and think and the
depraved violence in which they engage,
as James Danky and Denis Kitchen wrote
in their book "Underground Classics":
Wilson astonished and sometimes frightened
his fellow cartoonists, though they saw it
as pushing if not eviscerating
the boundaries of taste, more than anyone,
Wilson defined the boundaries of the medium

the artist and characters sometimes
take violence with a playful attitude,
for example getting tired of fighting
and agreeing to have sex instead
of continuing a battle

Wilson's later work became more ghoulish,
featuring zombie pirates and visualizations
of the Virgin of Guadalupe as a rotting
vampire mother

n many respects, however, his work has remained
consistent since his emergence in the 1960s,
in contrast to the many countercultural figures
who have moderated their more extreme
tendencies and successfully assimilated
into the mainstream of commercial culture,

Wilson's work has remained troubling
to mainstream sensibilities and defiantly
ill-mannered


Wilson's main characters:
- the Checkered Demon (in one of the most
exaggerated strips, Checker prefers the blood
of a snake as it takes its own victim
Star-Eyed Stella
- Captain Pissgums and his Pervert Pirates
- Ruby the Dyke
- Hog Riding Fools (motorcycle gang)
- Club Choad Charley, a member of
the Hog Riding Fools
- Lester Gass the Midnight Misogynist
couvertures:
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