WILSON, S. CLAY — Portfolio Comix

Berkeley, CA: The Print Mint, 1970. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Comic. Illustrated by S. Clay Wilson. B&W Illustrations; The First and Second printings are undistinguishable (from the Underground Comix Joint). The comic is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is some light spotting of foxing, mostly to the bottom spine ends and the top front corner. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is some beginning generalized toning throughout. "Steve Clay Wilson (July 25, 1941 – February 7, 2021) was an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Wilson attracted attention from readers with aggressively violent and sexually explicit panoramas of lowlife individuals, often depicting the wild escapades of pirates and bikers. He was an early contributor to Zap Comix. A striking feature of Wilson's work is the contrast between the literate way in which his characters speak and think and the depraved violence in which they engage. As James Danky and Denis Kitchen wrote in their book, Underground Classics, "He astonished and sometimes frightened his fellow cartoonists, though they saw it as pushing if not eviscerating the boundaries of taste. More than anyone, Wilson defined the boundaries of the medium." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .