- Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943), often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an American artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. He currently lives in France. Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, … - Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir, "Maus." - Harvey Pekar
Harvey Lawrence Pekar (born October 8 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American underground comic book writer and noted jazz critic. His friendship with Robert Crumb led to the creation of the autobiographical comic book series "American Splendor", later adapted as a movie of the same name. Crumb and Pekar became friends through their mutual love of jazz records, and Crumb became the first artist to illustrate "American Splendor". - Harvey Kurtzman
Harvey Kurtzman (October_3, 1924, Brooklyn, New York - February_21, 1993) was a U.S. cartoonist and magazine editor. In 1952, he was the founding editor of the comic book "Mad." Kurtzman was equally well known for the long-running "Little Annie Fanny" stories in "Playboy" (1962-88), parodying the very attitudes that "Playboy" promoted. Because "Mad" had a considerable impact on popular culture, … - Gary Panter
Gary Panter (born December 1, 1950 in Durant, Oklahoma) is an illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter is a luminary of the post-underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of "Arcade: The Comics Revue" and the initiation of "RAW". Many consider him the second generation in American underground comix Panter has published his work in various magazines and newspapers, including "Raw", … - Denis Kitchen
Denis Kitchen (born 27 August 1946) is an American underground cartoonist, publisher, author, agent, and founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. - Kim Deitch
Kim Deitch (born 1944) is an American comics artist. He was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, regularly contributing comical, psychedelia-tinged comic strips (featuring the flower child "Sunshine Girl" and "The India Rubber Man") to New York City's premier underground newspaper, "The East Village Other", beginning in 1967. He became editor of EVO's all-comics spin-off, "Gothic Blimp Works", in 1969. - Daniel Clowes
Daniel Gillespie Clowes (born April 14, 1961 in Chicago) is an American author, screenwriter and cartoonist of alternative comic books, including "Eightball" and "Lloyd Llewellyn". He is also known for the movies "Ghost World" and "Art School Confidential", which he adapted from "Eightball". - Robert Williams
Robert Williams is a well-known controversial painter and founder of "Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine". Williams began as part of the trail-blazing Zap Collective, along with other underground cartoonist visionaries like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. His mix of California car culture, cinematic apocalypticism, and film noir helped to create a new genre of psychedelic imagery along with artists like "Big Daddy" Ed Roth. - Peter Bagge
Peter Bagge (pronounced /bag/, as in 'Plastic Bag') (born December 11, 1957) is a US comics artist and creator of Buddy Bradley, "Hate", "Neat Stuff", "Martini Baton", and "Sweatshop". His stories often use black humor and exaggerated cartooning to dramatize the reduced expectations of middle-class American youth. In recent years Bagge has concentrated more on political and social commentary. - Gilbert Shelton
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940, Houston, Texas) is an American cartoonist and underground comix artist. He is the creator of "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers", "Fat Freddy's Cat", "Wonder Wart-Hog", "Not Quite Dead" and the cover art to The Grateful Dead's 1978 album "Shakedown Street". He graduated from Lamar High School in Houston. - S. Clay Wilson
S. Clay Wilson (July 25,1941-) is an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Wilson is known for aggressively violent and sexually explicit panoramas of "lowlife," often depicting the wild escapades of pirates and bikers. He was an early contributor to Zap Comix, and Wilson's artistic audacity has been cited by R. Crumb as a liberating source of inspiration for Crumb's own work. - Bill Griffith
Bill Griffith (born William Henry Jackson Griffith in Brooklyn, NY 1944) is a popular cartoonist in the United States. He is best known for his comic strip "Zippy the Pinhead". Griffith grew up in Levittown, Long Island, where one of his neighbors was science fiction illustrator Ed Emshwiller, whom he credits with pointing him towards the world of art.. Griffith began his comics career in New York City in 1969. - Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware (born December 28, 1967) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, best-known for a series of comics called the "Acme Novelty Library", and a graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth." Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in Oak Park, Illinois as of 2006. Ware's art is eclectic in its influences, and largely reflects his love of early-20th century American aesthetics in both cartooning and graphic design, … - Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins (born 1938) is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Her first comics were printed in the East Village Other. She later joined the staff of a feminist underground newspaper "It Ain't Me, Babe", with whom she produced the first all-woman comic book titled "It Ain't Me Babe". - Matthew Abram Groening
Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Matt Groening did not take a particular interest in school, which is what originaly turned him towards drawing. In the mid-1980' s, Matt Groening moved to Los... ... Matt Groening created The Simpsons. Matt Groening created Futurama. The Simpsons is one of the greatest shows ever. Furturama is one of the greatest shows ever. Because of this Simpsons fact Matt Groening is one of the all-time greats. Because of... - Spain Rodriguez
Manuel "Spain" Rodriguez (born 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an underground cartoonist best known for his character "Trashman". His experiences on the road with the biker gang the Road Vultures provided inspiration for his work as did his left-wing politics. Rodriguez studied at the Silvermine Guild Art School, and first drew for the "East Village Other" in New York City. He is also one of the founders of the United Cartoon Workers of America. - Jim Woodring
Jim Woodring (born October 11, 1952) is a comic book author and artist. He was born in Los Angeles and lives in Seattle. As a child he suffered from hallucinations of floating, gibbering faces over his bed (among other visions), and his work still has a very surreal and often nightmarish quality. - Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb (born Aline Goldsmith, August 1948, Long Beach, New York) is an underground comix artist, who married into the Crumb family, best known for her autobiographical stories. In these stories she refers to herself as The Bunch, a nickname she was apparently given as a child. She was born to a middle class Jewish family in the Five Towns area of Long Island. - Justin Green
Justin Considine Green (born 1945) is an American cartoonist who pioneered autobiographical comics. He is best known for his 1972 comic book "Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary". Green was a key figure in the 1970s generation of underground comics artists who appeared in Art Spiegelman's and Bill Griffith's anthologies "Arcade" and "Young Lust". - Chester Brown
Chester Brown (born May 16, 1960) is a Canadian independent cartoonist. His underground work was initially self-published, then released by the independent publishing company Vortex. Most of his output is now published by Drawn and Quarterly. - Charles Burns
Charles Burns (born September 27, 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is an award-winning U.S. cartoonist and illustrator. He is renowned for his meticulous, high-contrast and creepy artwork and stories. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife, painter Susan Moore, and their two young daughters. His father was an oceanographer for the government. They moved around a lot, including Boulder, Colorado, Maryland and Missouri before settling in Seattle when Burns was in grade five. - James Kochalka
James Kochalka is an American cartoonist and rock musician who was born May 26th, 1967 and grew up in Springfield, Vermont. He currently lives in Burlington, Vermont. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and holds an MFA in painting. His first published comics work was around 1994. - Jay Lynch
Jay Lynch, born January 7, 1945 in Orange, New Jersey, is an American cartoonist who played a key role in the underground comix movement with his "Bijou Funnies" and other titles. "Phoebe and the Pigeon People", a comic strip by Lynch and Gary Whitney, ran for almost two decades in the alternative weekly "Chicago Reader", but his most famous characters by far are the human-cat duo Nard N' Pat. - Rick Griffin
Richard Alden Griffin (June 18, 1944 - August 18, 1991) was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. He was also a contributor to the underground comix movement whose work appeared regularly in Zap Comix. Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, having designed some of their best known posters and record jackets. He was also known for his work within the surfing subculture, … - Wally Wood
Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and "Mad". Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature. - Dan O'Neill
Dan O'Neill (born April 21, 1942) is an American underground cartoonist, creator of the syndicated comic strip "Odd Bodkins" and founder of the underground comics collective the Air Pirates. - Phoebe Gloeckner
Phoebe Louise Adams Gloeckner is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and novelist. - Johnny Ryan
Johnny Ryan (1970 -) is an American alternative comics creator. He is best known for "Angry Youth Comics", a comic book published by Fantagraphics, and for "Blecky Yuckerella", a comic strip which originated in the "Portland Mercury" and now appears in "Vice Magazine" and on Ryan's website. Ryan is married to Jenny Nixon, better known as zinester "Queen Itchie". - Dame Darcy
Darcy Megan Stanger, (born 1971 in Caldwell, Idaho), known professionally as Dame Darcy, is an American graphic artist, cartoonist, and musician. Her comic book, "Meatcake", has been published by Fantagraphics since 1993. Dame Darcy attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Her visual aesthetic has been equally influenced by underground cartoonists and illustrators in the Victorian tradition like Sir John Tenniel and Edward Gorey. - Rick Altergott
Rick Altergott is a professional illustrator, cartoonist, and comic artist residing in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife Ariel Bordeaux, also a cartoonist. Their collaborative comic book, Raisin Pie, is published by Fantagraphics. Altergott is best known for Doofus, a long-running series notorious for its scatological humor. In September 2006 he released a serious Biblical mini-comic based on the life of Saint Matthias. - Vaughn Bodé
Vaughn Bodé, was an influential artist involved in and inspirational to underground comics, graphic design, and graffiti. He is perhaps best-known for his comic strip character Cheech Wizard, an anthropomorphic hat with almost no scruples; and artwork depicting voluptuous women. His works are noted for their psychedelic look and feel. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. - Greg Irons
Greg Irons (September 29, 1947 - November 14, 1984) was a poster artist, underground cartoonist, animator and tattoo artist. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he moved to San Francisco, California in 1967 where he soon found work doing posters for Bill Graham at the Fillmore Auditorium. - Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet (born December 31, 1965 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian underground cartoonist, best known for her autobiographical works such as "Dirty Plotte" and "My New York Diary". She began cartooning in 1987, with her work owing an obvious visual debt to Robert Crumb. Her efforts quickly began to attract critical attention, and she won the 1991 Harvey Award for "Best New Talent". Shortly thereafter, she moved to New York. - Victor Moscoso
Victor Moscoso (born 1936) is an American illustrator and comic book artist, especially noted for his work in the late 1960s as a designer of psychedelic art and concert posters (many for The Fillmore) and as a contributor to underground comix (he is among the artists who regularly appear in Zap Comix). - Rand Holmes
Rand Holmes (February 22, 1942 - March 15, 2002) was a Canadian artist and illustrator probably best known for his work in underground comix. Born in Truro, Nova Scotia, Holmes taught himself to draw as a teenager by copying such artists as Wally Wood and Will Eisner. He moved to Vancouver in 1969 and found work as an illustrater at "The Georgia Straight", a weekly alternative newspaper. - Paul Hornschemeier
Paul Hornschemeier is a North American cartoonist originally from Ohio whose works include the comic books Sequential and Forlorn Funnies, and the graphic novels Mother Come Home (published by Dark Horse Comics), Let Us Be Perfectly Clear and The Three Paradoxes (published by Fantagraphics Books), and The Collected Sequential (published by AdHouse Books). - Rory Hayes
Rory Hayes (August 8, 1949 - August 29, 1983) was an American underground cartoonist in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His comics were drawn in an expressionistic, primitivist style and usually dealt with grim subject matter such as paranoia, violent crime, and drug abuse. He was published in many of the most prominent comics in the underground scene, including "Arcade" and "Bijou Funnies". Hayes died of a drug overdose in 1983. - Mike Diana
Mike Diana is an underground cartoonist and the first artist ever to be convicted of obscenity in the United States. In the early 1990s, Mike Diana began producing the adult comic book "Boiled Angel". This amateur comic contained graphic depictions of a variety of taboo and gory subjects and was distributed to only a few retailers. In 1991 while investigating a Florida murder case, a police officer discovered an issue of "Boiled Angel" and, … - Paul Mavrides
Paul Mavrides (born 1962?) is an American artist, best known for his critique-laden comics, cartoons, paintings, graphics, performances and writings that encompass a disturbing yet humorous catalog of the social ills and shortcomings of human civilization. Mavrides was the co-creator and illustrator of the underground comic book "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" with Gilbert Shelton. Mavrides came to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975, …
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