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CHECKERED DEMON
checkered demon
Last Gasp 1977-79
Though his work was being published in 1966 and his first portfolio was produced in 1967, the inimitable S. Clay Wilson isn’t generally considered as one of the early founders of underground comics. But Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso and many others credit Wilson with destroying the stubborn censors resident in their own minds. Wilson’s taboo-shattering, one-page “Heads Up” cartoon for Zap Comix #2 was jarring to both comic book readers and underground artists, and helped open the floodgates to comic work by all creators that would attack every remaining taboo on the horizon. (more…)