# R.I.P. Skip Williamson

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-skip-williamson/782409>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 17, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-skip-williamson/782409 "2017-03-17T14:53:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-skip-williamson/782409/1 "2017-03-17T14:53:35Z")

</div>

[Skip Williamson](http://www.tcj.com/skip-williamson-1944-2017/), the underground comix pioneer and longtime contributor to PLAYBOY, died of multiple organ failure while in a medically-induced coma. He was 72.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-skip-williamson/782409/2 "2017-03-17T15:39:35Z")

</div>

Oh, shit. He was a favorite of mine.

Not the crappy stuff he did for PLAYBOY, the earlier work with Snappy Sammy Smoot and Ragtime Billy. Some genius stuff, back in those days.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-skip-williamson/782409/3 "2017-03-17T16:15:56Z")

</div>

Wow, just 11 days after his comix partner [Jay Lynch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lynch).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-skip-williamson/782409/4 "2017-03-17T16:38:52Z")

</div>

Whoa! JAY LYNCH died?

…I never really liked Jay Lynch’s work. But he was a driving force behind Chaicago’s BIJOU FUNNIES in the 1960s, the major underground comix publication in between NYC and Frisco.

And how the hell did he end up in Candor, New York?

Gotta go now and send a “good health” spell over the astral plane to R. Crumb, Justin Green, Trina Robbins, Bill Griffith, Frank Stack, Dan O’Neill, and all the other old hippies…

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-skip-williamson/782409/5 "2017-03-17T23:09:17Z")

</div>

Damn. The next few years are going to be difficult for those of us who loved the old Undergrounds.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Floppy\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@Floppy\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floppy_Joe)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-skip-williamson/782409/6 "2017-03-21T20:23:20Z")

</div>

I will miss Skip. He sent me a lot of signed stuff of his a few years back.