Pirates in the Heartland - The Mythology Of S. Clay Wilson

Informationen zum Autor S. Clay Wilson, one of the founding members of the Zap comics collective. (Zap is a seminal underground comic book anthology, with contributors like R. Crumb.) He lives in San Francisco. Klappentext This is a biography of a legendary underground cartoonist (contemporary and collaborator with Robert Crumb), most famous for his Checkered Demon character.The is the definitive account of the boldest and most audacious of the legendary underground cartoonists: the taboo busting, eyeball blistering S. Clay Wilson. This first volume contains all of his underground comic stories from Zap Comix, Snatch, Gothic Blimp Works, Bogeyman, Felch, Insect Fear, Pork, Tales of Sex and Death, and Arcade magazine as well as the many adventures of the Checkered Demon, Star-Eyed Stella, and Captain Pissgums, and even his earliest collaborations with William Burroughs. Also: selections from his teenaged and college years, both in comics and painting form. First person accounts from his peers, as well as Wilson’s own words, offer a revealing portrait of the artist who hid his shyness behind brash behavior and bluster. This first of a three-volume biography and retrospective gets to the heart and soul of an artist who lived his dreams and his nightmares.

Product details

• Authors: S. Clay Wilson, S. Clay Wilson, Wilson S. Clay
• Assisted by: Patrick Rosenkranz (Editor), Patrick Rosencranz (Editor), Patrick Rosenkranz (Editor), Rosenkranz Patrick (Editor)
• Publisher: Fantagraphics
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2014
• EAN: 9781606997475
• ISBN: 978-1-60699-747-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, Graphic Novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions