S. Clay Wilson

An underground comics legend rendered as a character in his own right, S. Clay Wilson made his debut in the pages of San Francisco Comic Book #6 in 1981, brought to life by the pen of Melinda Gebbie in the irreverent spirit of Rip Off Press. Emerging from the Bronze Age underground scene, this character has surfaced across four decades of countercultural publishing, rubbing shoulders on the page with icons like Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Fritz the Cat — about as storied a roster of underground royalty as you could hope to find. Appearing in titles like Rip Off Comix and The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Follies, S. Clay Wilson exists at the wonderfully strange intersection of comics history and comics self-awareness, a figure worth seeking out for any collector with a passion for the raw, unfiltered energy that defined underground comix at its most vital.