Robert Williams and His Surrealist Pin Up Girls
By Stacy Lande

Here is my chance to talk about my favorite artist of all time, Robert Williams. I was first exposed to his work back in art school, when I managed to get my hands on the infamous Zap Comics! I was knocked out when I first saw the erotic comic stuff of Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, and of course, Robert himself.

In the mid 1980’s, I was again to be stunned when I saw his paintings at the Zero One Gallery in Los Angeles. He would have to be one of my major influences, so how lucky was I to have to have such a famous artist write the forward to my art book, The Red Box.

Mr. Williams has a long history of involvement in the American hot rod culture, and he was involved early on with Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, and Ratfink.

He started Juxtapoz Magazine in 1994, and is credited with starting the lowbrow art movement… a movement that began with hot rod art and “kustom kulture”, but has grown to include so much more.

To say that Williams’ art is pin up art is only part of the equation… it is cinematic, film noir, and heroic on the scale of 19th French salon painting. Here is a lowbrow artist with a great fine art pedigree. His work is included in many high profile art collections, and there is a waiting list to collect any of his pieces!

His psychedelic art includes devil girls, supervixens, femme fatales, punk rock girls, and everything phantasmagoric. Then he throws in the hot rod art, and it’s quite a grand scale surrealist painting!

His most famous art work is probably his 1990’s Appetite for Destruction album cover for the band Guns and Roses.

About the author: Stacy Lande is a Los Angeles based artist, and her pin up art is most often placed in the lowbrow catagory. Her book, THE RED BOX, from Last Gasp press, features introductions from Robert Williams and Frank Kozik. Stacy has had a lifelong obsession with pin up girls, and her erotic paintings explore the more allegorical side of pinups.

Her subjects are femme fatales and devil girls, and her fascination with the succubus has prompted her work to be described as “predatory pinups”. Stacy’s paintings have been featured in magazine articles, notably Juxtapoz, Detour, and Hot Rod Deluxe; films, notably Gone in 60 Seconds starring Angelina Jolie and Nicholas cage; and art books, such as Weirdo Deluxe, from Chronicle Books, and Vicious, Delcious, and Ambitious, from Schiffer Books.

Article Source:Robert Williams Zap Comix Article

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Robert Crumb is one of America’s most iconic artists. If you have not discovered his work, here are some books of his to check out…

Robert Crumb’s Sex Obsessions



“Somehow the Devil got me!” Robert Crumb’s personal selection of his most secret fantasies. They have little to do with the standard procreative urge, Mr. Crumb admits. He has also said he finds nothing more boring than someone else’s sexual obsessions, and yet through his long career the world’s most famous underground cartoonist has felt compelled to include his own sex fantasies in his art. He explains it as a compulsive catharsis, while fans call Crumb’s erotic fantasies the Master at his best.

Now Robert Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a 258 page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are hand-colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books.

In total, the book features 14 complete stories, including “My Troubles With Women,” “If I Were a King,” “A Bitchin’ Bod,” and “How To Have Fun With a Strong Girl,” as well as 60 single page drawings. The artist admits it’s a little scary to see his most fevered obsessions collected end to end like this, but fans will find “Robert Crumb’s Sex Obsessions,” a fascinating peek inside an often tortured, always brilliantly talented mind.


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R. CRUMB’S AMERICA



Collecting his political drawings and another series of thematic anthologies from the Grand Master of modern comix. From the right-on 60s and 70s to the bitterness and disillusion of the 80s and ending with the futility of fighting the all powerful system, Crumb covers a variety of political attitudes while retaining his anti-Establishment opinions.


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Robert Crumb – The Pocket Essential Guide



Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. This is the first book-length critical study of Robert Crumb, covering all of his cross-cultural endeavors in comics, music, and film.

Every significant Crumb comic and story is examined, from the early Yum Yum Book to 2002’s From Cradle to Grave. Also included is an exclusive interview with Robert Crumb himself.


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