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Spontaneous Combustion (Skip Williamson autobiography)

4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 · rating details · 3 ratings · 1 review
Spontaneous Combustion is Skip Williamson's memoir about Art and Life. About his motivations and the voices in his head that command him do what he does.

His is a childhood so consumed by the specter of comic books that he's driven to pre-pubescent larceny and discovers the awesome power of comic art. And later into the roil of the turbulent late 60s Chicago where he, Robe
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Kindle Edition , 166 pages
Published (first published August 21st 2011)
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Robert Boyd
This is a self-published Kindle book, and it could have used a good copy-editor. But between the whiff of vanity publication and the amateurish editing, it's actually great! Skip Williamson is a funny writer--he writes as if he's telling you a longish shaggy-dog story in a bar, and his use of language (as anyone who has read his comics knows) is interestingly florid. I wish it had been organized a little better, and hadn't been so episodic--there are spaces between the anecdotes he shares that I ...more
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