“Robert Williams: Slang Aesthetics” is a survey of the artist’s recent work ... “I come out to California with these wild notions about comics and girlie mags and hot rods and find ...

Robert Williams has been painting ... In an era when everyday amusements like comic books, tattoos, and monster movies were hardly considered art, Williams used “Old Master” techniques to ...

Williams began in underground comics (most notably Zap), where he worked with other visual pioneers like Robert Crumb ... his comic-book past lends itself to art that includes elements from ...

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth on Robert Williams "He basically taught me to have the courage to draw and paint whatever I wanted, more than any teacher in art school ... hot rods, comic books, cartoons ...

Toward the end of our third interview, Robert Williams ... comics scene with R. Crumb, and from his oil paintings, which he reluctantly admits have become somewhat respected in mainstream art ...