Jeg har tidligere i Seriejournalens Forum skrevet om S Clay Wilsons hjerneskade og afasi, men kan nu oplyse, at den legendariske gamle Zap Comix tegner har det lidt bedre nu. Han griner og tegner igen, men behøver hjælp resten af livet. Derfor har hans partner, Lorraine Chamberlain, startet en “S Clay Wilson Special Needs Trust” på http://www.sclaywilsontrust.com/S._Clay_Wilson_SNT/sclaywilsontrust.com.html hvor folk kan klikke ind og donere med betalingskort via PayPal. Man kan også sende en check.
Og så kan vi glæde os over denne flotte kaffebordsbog udgivet af Ten Speed Press i 2006:
The Art of S. Clay Wilson (Hardcover)
THE ART OF S. CLAY WILSON is the long-awaited career retrospective of the most extreme of the Zap cartoonists of the late 1960s. A self-described “graphic agoraphobe,” Wilson draws manically dense scenes of lurid mayhem that rank among the seminal works of underground, counterculture American art. It’s all here, from the classic chronicles of the Checkered Demon to salacious stories about the pirates, prostitutes, and poets that inhabit Wilson’s divinely depraved world.
From the Publisher
* The definitive collection of the art of legendary Zap comic artist S. Clay Wilson. * Features 200 full-color images, including new work and previously unpublished prints commissioned for private collections. * Introduction by R. Crumb touts Wilson’s role as one of the originators of underground comix. “Wilson was the strongest, most original artist of my generation that I had yet met. . . . There was something very familiar about the drawings, yet something entirely new, never before seen! It looked like folk art, like old-time tattoos, like some high school hotrodder’s notebook drawings. They were rough, crazy, coarse, deeply American.”
About the Author
S. CLAY WILSON’s personal epiphany occurred in the heartland over a half century ago when he discovered E.C. Comics. He has been drawing ever since. After years of needless college education in art department dogma, some military service, travel hither and yon, and years of shows and comics, he believes that if you’re not good enough to be a cartoonist, maybe you can be an artist. He lives and draws in San Francisco.
De gamle Zap Comix har været genoptrykt flere gange, hvad man ikke kan sige om så mange af de andre undergrundstegneserier fra dengang. På http://www.undergroundcollectibles.com/index.cfm/fa/categories.main/parentcat/10301 kan du gå amok, hvis du ellers kan finde ud af PayPal:
The first issue of Zap Comix was printed by Charles Plymell in 1968. It was the product of R. Crumb who, along with friends, sold that first issue on the streets of the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco. Robert Crumb was the lone artist for the first two issues of Zap Comix.
Soon after, other artists, namely S. Clay Wilson, Rick Griffin, and Victor Moscoso (the latter two were already well known as rock concert poster artists) met Crumb and were invited to draw some strips for a future issue of Zap Comix. Later, Gilbert Shelton (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers) would join them and later still, Spain Rodriguez and Robert Williams.
Although there were a few earlier books (the term underground comix hadn’t even been invented yet), Crumb’s Zap Comix is generally considered the one that started the whole underground comix movement. The series has been published continuously ever since that first issue in 1968. The last one, # 15 (sixteenth in the series), was first published in 2005.
Her er Zap Comix #1 fra 1968, med forside af Robert Crumb, den tidlige #0 blev først udgivet senere, omkring tidspunktet hvor #3 blev udgivet:
Og her er det første nummer af Zap Comix med S. Clay Wilson:
