The Chronology of Billy Famous

Book excerpt: Bill Schenck is "one of the best-known practitioners of the western pop-art movement--which appeared in the 1960s hard on the heels of American pop's leading lights like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein," according to Southwest Art magazine. "The Chronology of Billy Famous" is the wild and zany companion book to "Schenck in the 21st Century," a comprehensive catalog raisonne and biography by noted art historian Amy Abrams. This illustrated chronology, written by Bill Schenck, includes 38 of his new drawings and an epilogue. "The Chronology" is Schenck's first unauthorized autobiography and successfully mystifies the basic facts of how he got to be where he is today.