Skip Williamson's Blog
Skip Williamson
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- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Birthday
- August 19
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- Bio
- Cartoonist, writer, artist, unrepentant insurgent, publication designer, pornographer and an aggravating carbuncle on the ass of Culture.
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Green is good. Matches
your eyes. The pearls are
lustrous.
Like you.”
6:06PM - “Suede,
Thanks
for the correction about Lisa
Wu Hartwell's husband. I
will
rectify…”
November 01, 2009 11:37AM - “Nice memory. Nice
shoes.”
October 29, 2009 08:37PM - “Sex is magic, intimacy
is transcendent, love is where
it's
at. Even if it's
just…”
October 23, 2009 02:47AM - “It could just be that
that which you love and and
are proud
of is exactly what
yo…”
October 21, 2009 03:01PM
Skip Williamson's Links
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/…
Goin' up to Cripple Creek to have a little fun."
--traditional folk song
By 1965 things were starting to churn. In March LBJ sent the first ground troops into Vietnam. Martin Luther King turned up the heat in Selma, Alabama,/…
Shel and I would talk a lot. His mind was brim full of all kinds of shit. Stuff that was always spilling out in songs and poems and cartoons and conversations. His thoughts were constantly overflowing his physical casing. His ideas were organic, had souls and needed to get out and… Read full post »
and seldom even ordinarily respectable."
-H. L. Mencken
As anyone with a sense of history knows, the link between Organized
Crime and Organized Politics in Chicago was so solid it was often
difficult to discern one from the other, especially during/… Read full post »
--George Orwell
The underground comics (or “comix”) movement presented
itself in the late 1960s, a time of abundant volatility, and
single-handedly propelled comic art into the spangling/… Read full post »
"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 »
I was the first art director for Hustler magazine.
The chain of events that led me to that job opportunity started in
1973 when I took the position as art director of Gallery
magazine. Ron Fenton, the founding publisher of Gallery,
was not himself connected but enjoyed the company of yeggs that… Read full post »
The first issue of Playboy hit the newsstands in
November 1953. Over 50,000 copies of that issue were sold. At the
beginning of 1956 the circulation was up to 500,000. By 1959 it hit
1,000,000 and by 1972 the circulation of Playboy magazine was at
7,012,000.
Playboy was the synergy in… Read full post »
4am
I waited outside Arthur Paul’s office for about half-an-hour –- a short wait I was to find out. Art directors hustled layouts under his nose hoping for his initials but knowing, in their heart-of-hearts, that he would make major changes.
Art Paul was the consummate Art Director and he kne
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This is a piece I did some years ago.
Because of the murder of Dr. George Tiller it seems appropriate to
post it now.
I like black and white art. It's impulsive, spontaneous and
low-tech. And frequently more colorful than something rendered in
color. Like film noir, it's old-school.
Most of the time it's pen nib to bristol board or into a
sketchbook. It's eye/brain/hand prestidigitation without benefit of
gigabyte… Read full post »
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/… Read full post »
the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals,
and county commissioners."
--Edward Abbey
Since Runnymede those in a position auger have be… Read full post »
--Charles Bukowski
Before I was employed by Playboy magazine I was hired as a designer (In 1970) by Playboy's Book Division where I laid out books, mainly paper-back collections of cartoons from the magazine.
During that time Robert Crumb made one/…
A few years ago I was talking to Kelly. She was in the final
throes of a romantic relationship. I told her "Your boyfriend has
one of the most wickedly interesting profiles I've ever seen".
"Maybe you should draw him," she said.
"I'd rather do a drawing or a painting of… Read full post »
I met 'Righteous' Bob Rudnick in 1970. He was a free-form disc-jockey on WGLD, broadcasting on the FM band "from the heart of honky heaven" (he would intone nightly). His show was Kokaine Karma and was an unconstrained gumbo of Charlie Mingus and John Coltrane tracks, Captain Beefheart, the MC5 and… Read full post »
In 1973 when I was the art director of Gallery magazine I was getting into a slight flirtation with the receptionist there. She'd come into my office and we'd mess around a bit but we couldn't properly pound it out because my office door wouldn't close. So we made a fuckdate.… Read full post »
I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.
-- Nicolas Cage
In 1969 I was working as a junior book designer for Playboy's book division. My boss was Don Myrus, who'd/…
Four Paintings
These are four recently completed paintings. And they're fairly good examples of the diversity of my source material. I'm not the kind of guy likely to paint a stoic still-life. Or an abstract color-idea explosion. And God knows I loathe conceptual art...Y'know, like a box of ribbons… Read full post »
The Landmark Diner & Nexus
and exposing them to the critic." -- Ambrose Bierce
In 2004 a group of students in the digital video department of the
Atlanta College of Art were producing a documentary about my/… Read full post »
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 »
--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/…
Illustrations
July 16th on my Facebook page I published a link to four
recently completed paintings here on Open Salon.
I received a comment from gallery director in Brooklyn. He said my
paintings were "illustrations..." A bit snarky, I thought. And
rude. Not to mention a tad assholier-than-thou.
And why use "illust… Read full post »
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