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The Collected Checkered Demon
Nice softcover book as shown sku 10287
100 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1997
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S. Clay Wilson
79 books8 followersS. Clay Wilson (Steve or Steven) was an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Wilson is known for aggressively violent and sexually explicit panoramas of "lowlife," often depicting the wild escapades of pirates and bikers.
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November 16, 2008
It saddens me to report that S. Clay Wilson is currently in a coma following a terrible beating he took outside of a San Francisco bar. From what I hear it doesn't look good for him. :(
That being said, I'd go far enough to say that The Checkered Demon is as cool and wild a comic strip icon as Popeye or Dick Tracy. He always gets even with the bad guys no matter how dirty he fights! The detailing of Wilson's images is impressive. There's always something to tickle your eyeball in each frame. He always crams in a few images in the background that's about as crowded as a Moroccan marketplace. Plus every story's a hoot.
That being said, I'd go far enough to say that The Checkered Demon is as cool and wild a comic strip icon as Popeye or Dick Tracy. He always gets even with the bad guys no matter how dirty he fights! The detailing of Wilson's images is impressive. There's always something to tickle your eyeball in each frame. He always crams in a few images in the background that's about as crowded as a Moroccan marketplace. Plus every story's a hoot.
January 16, 2013
Well, this is some nasty stuff, really—graphic violence, violent sex, rampant misogyny; I can't believe people complain about Crumb! Not bad—certainly nicely rendered, if often over-busy—but Wilson has a pretty lackadaisical approach to narrative.
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