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Slow Death
''Slow Death'' is an underground comix anthology published by Last Gasp (publisher), Last Gasp, the first title published by the San Francisco Bay Area-based press. Conceived as an ecologically themed comics magazine (in conjunction with the first Earth Day), the title's "underlying theme was always about what the human race was doing to damage the native planet."Fox, M. Steven''Slow Death'' Comixjoint. Accessed Sept. 22, 2016. Frequent contributors to ''Slow Death'' included Greg Irons, Jaxon (cartoonist), Jaxon, Dave Sheridan (cartoonist), Dave Sheridan, Richard Corben, Jim Osborne, Tom Veitch, and Dennis Ellefson. Released sporadically from 1970 to 1992, 11 issues were published in all. Publication history The first issue, titled ''Slow Death Funnies'', was produced by San Francisco State University graduate studentNelson, Gayle"The Origins of Last Gasp," Last Gasp website (Jan. 1999). Accessed Dec. 14, 2013. Ron Turner (publisher), Ron Turner as a benefit for a local ecology c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Irons
Greg Irons (September 29, 1947 – November 14, 1984) was an American poster artist, underground cartoonist, animator and tattoo artist. Profile Irons was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He moved to San Francisco, California, in 1967, where he soon found work designing posters for Bill Graham at The Fillmore Auditorium. He worked on the film '' Yellow Submarine'', then returned to work for Graham Productions. He soon branched out into album covers and "comix" work for the Print Mint, Last Gasp ''Eco-Funnies'', and other local underground publishers. Irons' collaborations with writer Tom Veitch in the early 1970s (the creative team was known as "GI/TV") included ''Deviant Slice Funnies'', ''Legion of Charlies''. Other contributions to underground comics included ''Skull Comix'' and ''Slow Death''. A solo comic entitled ''Light Comitragies'' was published in June 1971 by the Print Mint. In the mid-1970s he began book illustration work, mainly for Bellerophon Books. One of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Welz
Lawrence Welz (born November 21, 1948) better known as Larry Welz, is an American cartoonist, who created Cherry Poptart (now known simply as Cherry (comics), Cherry). He was an early contributor to the underground comix movement in the San Francisco area during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Work From 1969–1970, his work was featured regularly in ''Yellow Dog (comics), Yellow Dog'', a comics anthology published by the Print Mint in Berkeley, California. A partial list of additional comic books from the era featuring his work includes ''San Francisco Comic Book'', ''Captain Guts'', ''Funnybook'', ''Bakersfield Kountry Komics'' and ''American Flyer Funnies''. Evolving out of early prototype stories in ''Funnybook'' and ''Bakersfield Kountry Komics'', Welz created Cherry Poptart in the early 1980s. ''Cherry'' quickly became his most successful and well-known comic book series, with 22 issues and a variety of collections, posters, stickers and tattoos. Welz has collaborated wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Governments to include the nine counties that border the aforementioned estuaries: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, and San Francisco. Other definitions may be either smaller or larger, and may include neighboring counties that do not border the bay such as Santa Cruz and San Benito (more often included in the Central Coast regions); or San Joaquin, Merced, and Stanislaus (more often included in the Central Valley). The core cities of the Bay Area are San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. Home to approximately 7.76 million people, Northern California's nine-county Bay Area contains many cities, towns, airports, and associated regional, state, and national parks, connected by a comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground Comix
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books that are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality, and violence. They were most popular in the United States in the late 1960s and 1970s, and in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Barbara "Willy" Mendes, Trina Robbins and numerous other cartoonists created underground titles that were popular with readers within the counterculture scene. Punk had its own comic artists like Gary Panter. Long after their heyday, underground comix gained prominence with films and television shows influenced by the movement and with mainstream comic books, but their legacy is most obvious with alternative comics. History United States The United States underground comics scene emerged in the 1960s, focusing on subjects dear to the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wally Wood
Wallace Allan Wood (June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, widely known for his work on EC Comics's titles such as ''Weird Science (comic), Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy'', and ''Mad (magazine), MAD Magazine'' from its inception in 1952 until 1964, as well as for ''T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents'', and work for Warren Publishing's ''Creepy (magazine), Creepy''. He drew a few early issues of Marvel Comics, Marvel's ''Daredevil (Marvel Comics series), Daredevil'' and established the title character's distinctive red costume. Wood created and owned the long-running characters ''Sally Forth (Wally Wood comic strip), Sally Forth'' and ''Cannon (Wally Wood comic strip), Cannon''. He wrote, drew, and self-published two of the three graphic novels of his Masterpiece, magnum opus, ''The Wizard King (comic), The Wizard King'' trilogy, about Odkin son of Odkin before his death by suicide. Much of his early professional artwork is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Manley
Graham Manley is a British comic artist. Biography Graham Manley has worked for a wide range of British comics, and is credited by Tony O'Donnell as inspiring the creation of ''Near Myths''.Ewing, Garen. Interview with Tony O'Donnell (July 1998). Originally intended for the British comics fanzine ''Vicious'', run by Pete Ashton and Jez HigginsArchived at GarenEwing.co.uk He has drawn episodes of ''Juliet November'' and ''Whatever Happened To...?'' for the ''Judge Dredd Megazine''. He also co-created (with writer Pat Mills) the character Rick Fortune for '' Diceman'' comic. He has also contributed to several volumes of ''The Big Book of'' collection for the DC imprint Paradox Press. Manley has produced full colour SF and fantasy comics in ''The Dandy Annual'' for several years. Manley worked on the opening titles of the feature film 'Electric Man' where his original drawings of the character were animated into an impressive opening sequence. Bibliography *''Near Myths'' * "Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Talbot
Bryan Talbot (born 24 February 1952) is a British comics artist and writer, best known as the creator of ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' and its sequel '' Heart of Empire'', as well as the ''Grandville'' series of books. He collaborated with his wife, Mary M. Talbot to produce '' Dotter of Her Father's Eyes'', which won the 2012 Costa biography award. Early life Bryan Talbot was born in Wigan, Lancashire on 24 February 1952. He attended Wigan Grammar School, the Wigan School of Art, and Harris College in Preston, Lancashire, from which he graduated with a degree in Graphic Design. Career Talbot began his comics work in the underground comix scene of the late 1960s. In 1969 his first work appeared as illustrations in ''Mallorn'', the British Tolkien Society magazine, followed in 1972 by a weekly strip in his college newspaper. He continued in the scene after leaving college, producing Brainstorm Comix, the first three of which formed ''The Chester P. Hackenbush Trilogy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Colwell
Guy Colwell (born March 28, 1945) is an American painter and occasional underground cartoonist. Although not African-American himself, Colwell's comics often portray blacks in strong roles in stories of life on the streets. His " Figurative Social Surrealist" paintings reflect on the human condition, economic inequality, injustice, and alienation from the natural world. Biography Guy Colwell was on born March 28, 1945, in Oakland, California. Colwell studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts). After completing two years there, he dropped out to travel and get some life and work experience. When he had worked an almost two-year stint as a sculptor for Mattel, and was preparing his return to college. He was arrested for draft refusal and sentenced to two years in federal prison at McNeil Island Corrections Center, in Washington state. His experiences there and the period after his release were the genesis of his underground com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Brand
Roger Brand (January 5, 1943 – November 23, 1985) was an People of the United States, American cartoonist who created stories for both mainstream and Underground comix, underground comic books. His work showed a fascination with Horror comics, horror and Erotic comics, eroticism, often combining the two. Biography Early life and education Born in New Mexico, Brand grand grew up in El Sobrante, Contra Costa County, California, El Sobrante, California, where he was friends with cartoonist Joel Beck. Brand and Beck were classmates at De Anza High School, and they remained lifelong friends. Comics Some of Brand's earliest comics work appeared in the early 1960s in the University of California, Berkeley's ''California Pelican (magazine), California Pelican'' humor magazine, alongside drawings by Beck. In 1966, Brand and his wife Michele Brand, Michele moved from Oakland, California, to New York City, specifically to break into the comics business. Brand began as an assistant to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael T
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= *Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephoros I *Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melinda Gebbie
Melinda Gebbie (born 1937) is an American comics artist and writer, known for her participation in the underground comix movement. She is also known for creating the controversial work ''Fresca Zizis'' and her contributions to ''Wimmen's Comix,'' as well as her work with her husband Alan Moore on the three-volume graphic novel ''Lost Girls'' and the '' Tomorrow Stories'' anthology series. Personal life Melinda Gebbie was born in San Francisco. She became interested in comics in 1973, when she met writer/artist Lee Marrs at a publishers' fair. In 1984 Gebbie married Adam Cornford, a poet from California; their marriage was short-lived. Their marriage is believed to have been an inspiration for his poetry collection ''Animations''. She married Alan Moore in 2007. Career Melinda Gebbie contributed her first comic strip to ''Wimmen's Comix'' #3, the inceptive all-women anthology published by Last Gasp. She wrote and drew short stories for ''Wimmen's Comix'' and many other antho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wray (artist)
William York Wray (born March 24, 1956), known professionally as Bill Wray, is an American cartoonist, animator and landscape painter widely known for his contributions to '' Mad'' and ''The Ren & Stimpy Show,''Lambiek Comiclopedia: Bill Wray , lambiek.net; accessed November 3, 2016. as well as his current focus on regional landscape painting—under the names ''Bill Wray'' for his animated work and ''William Wray'' for his paintings. With urban landscapes, cartoon elements, and superheroes as frequent subjects, Wray is noted for a tightly cropped and abstract painting style. The '' Huffington Post'' said he "has a brisk, bold style that gives his city scenes a jolt of painterly drama." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
