His drawings were so outrageous that, on first encountering them, his fellow cartoonist R. Crumb recalled feeling that “suddenly my own work seemed insipid.”
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A NYT obituary of S. Clay Wilson
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Hucklecatt
Hawaii 1h agoSitting in the upstairs rooms of Peter Rich’s “Velo Sport” shop in Berkeley doing windowpane and reading Captain P was a memory I will not soon forget (my girlfriend worked there). The artwork jumped off the pages in the most vivid way.
Amazing that any newspaper is giving this press I would have thought it was too low brow for print. Thanks for the amble down memory lane.