ABOUT SKIP WILLIAMSON:

"Artist Skip Williamson, (is) one of the beloved granddaddies of the nihilistic underground comics movement... Trippier than a sheet of windowpane acid, and often more political than compatriots like R. Crumb, Williamson also invented the "Playboy Funnies" section of America's favorite lad mag."
- Diablo Cody (Academy Award winning author of the film "Juno".)

In 1968, along with Robert Crumb and Jay Lynch, Williamson founded "Bijou Funnies", one of the first and longest running titles of the influential Underground Comix movement.

In 1972 Williamson illustrated Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book".

In 1974 Skip Williamson was the founding art director of Hustler magazine.

In 1975 Williamson joined the staff of Playboy magazine where he was an art director for a decade. An illustrator and cartoonist for the magazine he founded and maintained the "Playboy Funnies" comic strip section of Playboy.

In 1991 Skip Williamson was the first artist inducted into The
Underground Comix Hall of Fame.

He currently paints large candy-colored canvasses depicting political abominations and social equivocation. His work has shown in galleries around the world including the CoproNason Gallery (LA), the Huntington Hartford Museum (NYC), the Corcoran (Washington D.C.), the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Tate Museum of Modern Art (London)...and many others.

He's completing work on "My Bitter Agenda", a combination autobio and anthology of art.

myspace.com/skipwilliamson

ABOUT CHRISTINA GUSEK:

Chris Gusek, an artist originally from western Massachusetts. Her work is disquieting, willfully scatological and morbidly uncivilized. She's obsessive/compulsive, a fan of Heavy Metal and her art is like Yellow Submarine meets Charles Manson if Charles Manson were female.

Chris and Skip Williamson have teamed up for art exhibitions in the past. Christina has an intuitive hilarious perversity that dovetails nicely into Williamson's deranged cartoons. Her art is like sitting on a uterus-shaped Whoopie Cushion studded with razorblades. And her message is "You'd better get busy because you never know when the hammer's coming down".

Her work has shown in galleries across America, including...

"Deceased" (2004) at Eyedrum, an art and music gallery in Atlanta.

"The Red-Hot Art-O-Rama del Arte" show (with Skip Williamson) at the Inner Sanctum (2005) in Atlanta.

"Coulrophobia--Fear of Clowns" group exhibition at the Art of Framing Gallery in San Diego (2006).

myspace.com/theytoldme