Collection: Robert Williams

Robert Williams (born 1943, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a painter, cartoonist, and publisher whose work emerged from the underground comix scene of the late 1960s and 1970s. A founding contributor to Zap Comix alongside R. Crumb and others, Williams developed a practice that fused hot-rod culture, pulp illustration, biker mythology, surrealism, and fine art painting into a technically virtuosic and culturally disreputable body of work. His 1989 monograph Visual Addiction, published by Last Gasp, appeared before the art world fully absorbed the visual language he helped create. Williams later founded Juxtapoz magazine in 1994, which became the primary platform for what would become known as Lowbrow or Pop Surrealism. Publications from the pre-Juxtapoz period remain the most sought after.