- 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, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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". - 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, … - 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. - 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", … - 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. - 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). - 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. - Frank Stack
Frank Huntington Stack (aka Foolbert Sturgeon) (b. 1937) is an American underground cartoonist. Working under the name Foolbert Sturgeon to avoid persecution for his work while living in the bible belt, Stack published what is considered by many to be the first underground comic book, "The Adventures of Jesus", in 1962. He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BFA in 1959. - Gilbert Hernandez
Gilbert Hernandez (born February 1, 1957), also known as Gilberto Hernandez (pronounced /heel-bear-toe/) or simply Beto (pronounced /beh-toe/), is along with his brothers Jaime and Mario a co-creator of the black and white independent comic "Love and Rockets", published by Fantagraphics Books. Hernandez was born and grew up in Oxnard, California, and was exposed to comic books early in life, … - Howard Cruse
Howard Cruse (born 1944) is a gay American cartoonist. Cruse was raised in Springville, Alabama in the 1950s, the son of a preacher and a homemaker. His earliest published cartoons were in "The Baptist Student" when he was in high school. His work later appeared in "Fooey" and "Sick". He attended Birmingham-Southern College, where he studied drama, and had a brief career in television. In 1977, Cruse moved to New York City, where he met Eddie Sedarbaum, … - Dave Sheridan
Dave Sheridan was the underground cartoonist who is best-known for his characters Dealer McDope and Tales from the Leather Nun and his collaboration on the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Born in 1943 and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area, he had arrived in San Francisco, California by the early 1970s. There he collaborated with fellow midwesterner Fred Schrier on three issues of "Mother's Oats Funnies", "Meef Comix", … - Jay Kinney
Jay Kinney (born 1950) is an American author, editor, and former underground cartoonist. A member, along with Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch and R. Crumb, of the original "Bijou Funnies" crew, Kinney also edited "Young Lust" in the early 70s with Bill Griffith. He later founded the political comic "Anarchy Comics" which was published through the early 80s. Though a member of the first wave of the American underground comix movement, … - 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. - Roberta Gregory
Roberta Gregory (born 1953, Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American comic book writer and artist best known for her character Bitchy Bitch from her series "Naughty Bits". Gregory's father was Disney comics artist Bob Gregory. Educated at the California State University, Long Beach, she began submitting work to "Wimmen's Comix" and other underground comix, and created the strip "Feminist Funnies". - 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. - Sophie Crumb
Sophia Violet Crumb (b. September 27, 1981) is an American comics artist, a member of the Crumb family. She is the daughter of underground comix artists Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb. Comics she drew as a child appeared in "Weirdo" magazine, and she collaborated with her parents on "Dirty Laundry Comics". She has also produced two issues of a series titled "Belly Button", which is published by Fantagraphics Books. - 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, … - 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. - Bobby London
Bobby London (1950 -) is an underground comix and mainstream comics artist. He created the first "hip" situation comedy in any medium, his underground newspaper strip "Merton", in his native New York in 1969 and the raunchy comic strip "Dirty Duck" in 1971. "Dirty Duck" had been originally published by The Los Angeles Free Press and subsequently in books like "Air Pirates Funnies," and "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers". - Scott Shaw
Scott Shaw (often spelled Scott Shaw!) is a United States cartoonist and animator. Among Scott's comic-book work is Hanna-Barbera's "The Flintstones" (for Marvel Comics and Harvey Comics), "Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew" (for DC Comics), and "Simpsons Comics" (for Bongo Comics). He was also the first artist for the Archie "Sonic the Hedgehog" comic. - Guy Colwell
Guy Colwell (born March 28, 1945 in Oakland, CA) studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After a two year stint working for Mattel, he was arrested for draft resistance and was sentenced to two years in jail. His experiences there were the genesis of his Underground Comix series, "Inner City Romances". During the turbulent 60's scene in San Francisco, Colwell worked as an ilustrator for the underground paper, Good Times. - Shary Flenniken
Shary Flenniken (born 1950) is a U.S. underground cartoonist. After joining the burgeoning underground comics movement in the early 1970s, she became a prominent contributor to "National Lampoon" and edited the magazine for two years. Her best-known creation is "Trots and Bonnie", a light-hearted satire of the adult world through the eyes of a sexually precocious girl and her talking dog. - George Metzger
George Metzger was an underground comics (comix) artist in the early 70s in California. He lived In San Jose, CA for many years, very near the college campus. In the mid to late 60's he also worked at Hambley Studios in Santa Clara near by. There he was a production serigraph printer for fine art print production of such notable artists as Sister Mary Corita, the artist Nun. - Dori Seda
Dori Seda (1951-February 25, 1988) was an artist best known for her underground comix work of the 1980s. Her comics combined exaggerated fantasy and ribald humor with documentation of her life in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Seda was originally a painter and ceramics artist. To pursue her interest in comics, she took a job as a bookkeeper at the San Francisco publisher Last Gasp. - Mark Newgarden
Mark Newgarden is an American underground cartoonist born in Brooklyn in 1959. His work has appeared widely and his influential shape-shifting weekly feature "'Mark Newgarden" which appeared in alternative weekly newspapers like New York Presscreated a cult following for the artist. Newgarden's work has appeared in a diverse array of venues from the pivotal avant-garde comics album Raw to the NY Times op-ed page. - Brian Ralph
Brian Ralph (1973) is an American underground cartoonist. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996, where he first began publishing his mini-comic "Fireball". Brian's illustrations have appeared in a number of publications, including "Wired" and the New York Post. He is a member of the underground art collective known as Fort Thunder. His comic "Cave-In" was very well received, and was nominated for three Harveys and one Eisner award, … - Gene Deitch
Gene Deitch (born August 8, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American Academy-Award winning illustrator, animator and film director, based out of Prague. From 1945 to 1951 Deitch was a frequent contributor to "The Record Changer", a jazz magazine. He has produced animated cartoons for studios such as UPA/Columbia Pictures, Terrytoons Fox ("Tom Terrific "), MGM ("Tom and Jerry") and Paramount Pictures ("Nudnik").He directed, … - Tom Veitch
Tom Veitch is an American writer, best known for his contributions to the Dark Horse line of Star Wars comicbook titles, notably "Dark Empire" and "Tales of the Jedi". For DC Comics Veitch wrote "Animal Man", along with two Elseworlds series featuring Kamandi and an elder Superman. Tom Veitch was a major contributor to the underground comix movement of the late sixties and early seventies. - Steve Stiles
Steve Stiles is a science fiction artist and writer, coming out of the science fiction fanzine tradition. He studied at the High School of Music and Art and the School of Visual Arts and later wrote about this in his essay, "Art School": :Both were located in Manhattan, where I was, and both had excellent reputations. And so, in 1956, at age 13, I took the entrance exams at M&A, which partly consisted of drawing an arrangement of old shoes and flowers, … - Charles Crumb
Charles Crumb was the eldest brother in the Crumb family, a family of notable but troubled artists that included R. Crumb and Maxon Crumb. R. Crumb has written extensively about his miserable childhood, claiming that Charles bullied Robert and Maxon to create endless comic books all through their teen years, something which annoyed Robert at that time but which he now credits with developing his artistic skills. While Maxon and Robert Crumb eventually moved away, … - Gary Hallgren
Gary Hallgren (born October 28, 1945) is an American illustrator and underground cartoonist. Growing up in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, he studied painting and design at Western Washington State College. He joined the underground comix scene sometime around 1970. In 1971 Hallgren and several other artists including Dan O'Neill teamed up to produce two issues of "Air Pirates Funnies". The comics contained parody versions of Mickey Mouse, … - Ed Piskor
Ed Piskor (born July 28, 1982 in Homestead, Pennsylvania) is an alternative comics artist operating out of Pittsburgh, Pa. He is a former student of the Joe Kubert School and is best known for his artistic collaborations with underground comics pioneers Harvey Pekar of American Splendor fame, and Jay Lynch who illustrates Garbage Pail Kids. He has a cult following amongst minicomic fans with his series Deviant Funnies, and Isolation chamber. - John Holmstrom
John Holmstrom is an American underground cartoonist and writer. As the co-founder of Punk Magazine at the age of 21 in late 1975, Holmstrom's work became the visual representation of the Punk era. During the 1980s he worked for several publications, such as Stop! Magazine, Comical Funnies, Twist, High Times and Heavy Metal magazine. John Holmstrom is best known for his cover of the Ramones albums Rocket to Russia and Road to Ruin, … - Jim Franklin
Jim Franklin (born 1943) is an artist best known for his poster art created for the Armadillo World Headquarters, a former Austin, Texas music hall. Franklin was born in Galveston, Texas and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. Returning to Texas, he teamed with musicians and artists to open a psychedelic music hall in Austin, called the Vulcan Gas Company. Franklin lived in the club and was its primary poster artist for bands such as Shiva's Headband, … - Jim Mitchell
Jim Mitchell is an American underground cartoonist. Mitchell was part of the late-1960s/early-1970s Milwaukee underground comix scene and a founder of the Krupp Comics/Kitchen Sink group, which also included Denis Kitchen, Bruce Walthers, Don Glassford and Wendel Pugh. In the early 1970s, he regularly created strips for the underground newspaper "The Bugle", which were subsequently syndicated to other underground and college newspapers via the Krupp Syndicate.
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