Fred Schrier (born 1945 in Ohio) is an artist, writer, and animator, best known as partner to the underground comic book artist Dave Sheridan. Together, using the name "Overland Vegetable Stagecoach," they worked on ''Mother's Oats Funnies'', published by

Rip Off Press Rip Off Press Corporation, Inc. is a comic book mail order retailer and Distribution (business), distributor, better known as the former publisher of adult-themed series like ''The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'' and ''Rip Off Comix'', as well as ...

from 1970 to 1976. Schrier's work was also featured in ''Meef Comix'' (

Print Mint The Print Mint, Inc. was a major publisher and distributor of underground comix based in the San Francisco Bay Area during the genre's late 1960s-early 1970s heyday. Starting as a retailer of psychedelic posters, the Print Mint soon evolved into ...

) and ''The Balloon Vendor'' (Rip Off Press), and the anti-

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comics pamphlets ''Silent Majority Comics'' and ''Uncle Sam Takes LSD'' (both published by Rip Off Press). Schrier's solo appeared in ''

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'' #1 (with J. Osborne and

Gilbert Shelton Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the iconic underground characters ''The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'', '' Fat Freddy's Cat'', and ''Wonder W ...

), published by

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, ''Skull Comics'' #1 (Rip Off Press), and '' Yellow Dog'' #19, published in 1971 by The

. Schrier served with the

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in the mid-1970s and the focus of his work changed afterward.Fox, M. Steven
"Mother's Oats Comix - 1969-1977 / Rip Off Press,"
ComixJoint. Accessed Oct. 12. 2016. Sheridan died of cancer at the age of 38 in 1982. An obituary by Schrier was published in the

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periodical ''Changeling Times'', decorated with their artwork. Schrier has also been an illustrator of children's books such as ''Let's Jump!'', written by Donna Lugg Pape and published by

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, "Amazing Science Tricks" (published in ''

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''), and has been the animator for the

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stadium scoreboard,. winning him a "thanks" credit in the 1994 motion picture ''

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Bibliography

Solo titles

* ''Silent Majority Comics'' (Rip Off Press, 1970) — photocopied

minicomic A minicomic is a creator-published comic book, often photocopied and stapled or with a handmade binding. In the United Kingdom and Europe the term small press comic is equivalent with minicomic, reserved for those publications measuring A6 (105& ...

* ''Uncle Sam Takes LSD'' (Rip Off Press, 1972) — photocopied minicomic

Overland Vegetable Stagecoach

* ''Mother's Oats Comix'' #1 (

, 1969) * ''Mother's Oats Comix'' #2 (Rip Off Press, 1970) * ''Mindwarp: An Anthology'' by Sheridan & Schrier (

And/Or Press And/Or Press was an independent small press publisher based in the San Francisco Bay Area that operated from 1974 to 1983. The company published books on personal development, guides to the countercultural lifestyle, and consciousness expansion. ...

, 1975) * ''Mother's Oats Comix'' #3 (Rip Off Press, 1976)

Other comix

* ''

'' #1 (Last Gasp, 1970) — with Sheridan, Jim Osborne,

, and others * ''Skull Comics'' #1 (Rip Off Press 1970) — with Dave Sheridan,

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, w ...

, Jack Jackson and

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 par ...

* ''Hydrogen Bomb and Biochemical Warfare Funnies'' (Rip Off Press, 1970) * '' Yellow Dog'' #19 (

, 1971) * ''

The Rip Off Review of Western Culture ''The Rip Off Review of Western Culture'' was an underground comics magazine published by Rip Off Press and produced out of San Francisco, California. It published three issues in 1972. The publication was historically significant in that it broug ...

'' (Rip Off Press, 1972) * ''The Balloon Vendor'' (Rip Off Press, 1971) — with Sheridan * ''Meef Comix'' #1 (Print Mint,1972) * ''Meef Comix'' #2 (Print Mint, 1973) * ''

Rip Off Comix ''Rip Off Comix'' was an underground comix anthology published between 1977 and 1991 by Rip Off Press. As time passed, the sensibility of the anthology changed from underground to alternative comics. The anthology was originally a byproduct of th ...

'' #3 (Rip Off Press, Mar. 1978)

Children's books & stories

* (with writer Donna Lugg Pape) ''Let's Jump!'' (

, 1991) — part of the Read Alone Books series ''Wild Animals, Come Out!'' * "Amazing Science Tricks" (''

'', April 2004)

References

Notes

Sources

* ''The Underground Comix Family Album'' by Malcolm Whyte (with photographs by Clay Geerdes and foreword by

Will Eisner William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an American cartoonist, writer, and entrepreneur. He was one of the earliest cartoonists to work in the American comic book industry, and his series ''The Spirit'' (1940–1952) was no ...

) Word Play Publications, 1998. * ''Notes from the Underground'' by

Jay Kinney Jay Kinney (born 1950) is an American author, editor, and former underground cartoonist. Kinney has been noted for "adding new dimensions to the political comic" in the underground comix press of the 1970s and '80s. Kinney was a member, along w ...

(1986)

External links

Schrier entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia
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