S. CLAY WILSON

S. Clay Wilson is doing better. He’s not yet at home with his partner, Lorraine Chamberlain — he’s still at a rehab center near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco where he’s been after suffering a head injury — but he’s drawing “like a madman,” she said. “He’s still at the rehab center because he can’t go out by himself without getting lost, and he can’t problem solve.” But he’s drawing: “He’s been doing incredible stuff,” she said. “He’s done seven really incredible black-and-white drawings. The Checkered Demon is in all of them.”

Here is visual evidence of  Wilson’s vitality:

 

An historic photograph of “Mount Rushmore”: Paul Mavrides, Spain Rodriguez, R. Crumb, and S. Clay Wilson having a cup of coffee at Starbucks. When’s the last time they were all together? If ever? Print out this picture and save it for your grandchildren. And read Steve Duin's The Oregonian story on Wilson and this gathering.