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Skip Williamson

Skip Williamson
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Birthday
August 19
Title
Proprietor
Company
Self
Bio
Cartoonist, writer, artist, unrepentant insurgent, publication designer, pornographer and an aggravating carbuncle on the ass of Culture.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010 11:09PM

In the Schoolyard

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats."
-- H. L. Mencken



I'm a recluse.

Not obsessively. But I'm not very social. I don't like to go out. I'd much/… Read full post »

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JANUARY 26, 2010 4:49PM

D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

"... a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely
energy condensed to a slow vibration.
That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.
There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream
and we're the imagination of ourselves..."
-- Bill/
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JANUARY 24, 2010 7:53PM

Arma Virumque

My recent post, Jesus Armed and Dangerous, has generated both comments and theological dissertation.

Always on the lookout for new ways to milk the gullible philosophical commenter, I located more fodder for this fight. I found another locked and loaded Jesus drawing.

I'm posting "Arma Virumque", an… Read full post »

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JANUARY 19, 2010 11:51PM

Full Metal Jesus

Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights used by the United States military. One of the citations refers to Second Corinthians 4:6, which reads "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge… Read full post »

JANUARY 8, 2010 11:49PM

Carnage

"Art is meant to disturb.
--Georges Braque


In 1980 Grass Green was interviewing me for the Comics Journal. He stopped by my office at Playboy magazine for the Q and A. I rambled on into his tape recorder for an hour or two. Weary of pontificating, I/…

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DECEMBER 11, 2009 5:09PM

Aw Heck!

In 1971 I had made a habit of visiting the Earl of Old Town once a week. The Earl was a folk music venue. The proprietor -- and bartender -- was the slightly deranged yet lovable Earl J.J. Pionke.

Chicago was a bit of a hotbed of folk acts… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 3, 2009 11:20PM

Post-Modern Foodie Fun

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DECEMBER 3, 2009 12:47AM

Stop the War Machine!

Fuck Obama. Fuck Bush/Cheney. Fuck the Clintons. And don't forget congress and the banksters while you're at it. All of the evil hand-puppets who steal our money and murder our children.

 

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DECEMBER 2, 2009 12:12AM

Ruby

"I'm a Ulysses without a Penelope
on an endless journey between
disappointment and neglect
and back again." --Marc Furstenberg




Since my divorce I had been tossed back into the mill and ground into fodder to feed my own biological appetite. There were burning women with fiery artistic notions, and icy/… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 28, 2009 2:08PM

The Air Conditioning Man

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009 4:12PM

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009 12:11AM

Halsted Street

 

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OCTOBER 23, 2009 3:03PM

The Real Hen-Housewives of Atlanta

"This is absurd. This is absurd".
--Sigmund Freud (last words)

My daughter, Rita, made breakfast for the Real Housewives of Atlanta this week.

Rita is a chef. She works for Opera, an opulent Atlanta nightspot that caters to beautiful people willing to tolerate -- and pay high dollar for -- the/… Read full post »

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OCTOBER 8, 2009 12:53AM

The Unauthorized Cartoon Biography of Hugh Hefner

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009 11:50PM

Deep in the Heart

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire...
--T.S. Eliot


When I was a kid preeminent writers, poets and notable celebrities were entertained in my home. Beguiling and legendary characters like John Ciardi,/…

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 11:11PM

Fear N0 Art

There are those on Open Salon who jealously guard the written word.  Not surprising considering that this territory was settled, fenced off and farmed by writers.

Cartoons can be a powerful medium.  Boss Tweed said about Thomas Nast "Stop them damn pictures. I don't care what the papers writ… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009 10:22PM

Funny Side Up

In 2002 I was flying into Portland, Oregon, for a show.

For me the Great Northwest was an alternate universe populated by pale indigenous forest children. Their knit caps pulled low even though it was May. Clothed in surplus army khaki, faded denim, worn plaid flannel, hooded sweatshirts and hemp,… Read full post »

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 4:33PM

Poetry (In Two Parts)

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AUGUST 31, 2009 7:20PM

Flood Stage

There was an excitement in Canton, Missouri, when the Mississippi reached flood stage.

The river would rampage nearly every year. Sometimes it simply crept across Highway 61 north and south of town and then began to recede. But other times it was more angry and bent on destruction.… Read full post »

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AUGUST 27, 2009 3:19PM

Esthetic Delirium

My friend, Suzy the Floozie, would bring me bags of toys. 50 gallon Hefty bags filled with Happy Meal toys, tiny spacemen and alien creatures, Disney tchotchke, gaudy trinkets and horrific gee-gaws, gllttery beads and king- cake babies, little army men and cowboys and Indians and batgirls, small jac… Read full post »

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AUGUST 24, 2009 2:20AM

Blondie

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you've got it made."
--Groucho Marx



Because I was the young, hip guy in the Playboy art department, I'd get the young hip assignments. For instance, I'd work monthly with editor, Kate Nolan, producing whatever the/…

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AUGUST 19, 2009 10:59PM

Francy

"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."
--Germaine Greer


The night I met Francy I went home with her. We didn't leave the bed for a week. She had been dating a science fiction writer, but he'd been atomized. The hot avaricious/…

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AUGUST 14, 2009 4:50PM

Playbore

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
-- Edward Abbey


Playboy has always been a target of parody. In fact Playboy liked to consider itself a advocate of the art of parody and satire. But the truth was that Playboy magazine was fairly thin-skinned when it/… Read full post »

AUGUST 12, 2009 7:50PM

Slice of Life



The vicissitudes of domesticity.

Originally published in the National Lampoon, vol. 1, no. 64, 1975.

 

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AUGUST 5, 2009 5:08PM

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of pas/
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