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 from 1970 to 1976. Schrier's work was also featured in ''Meef Comix'' ( Print Mint) and ''The Balloon Vendor'' (Rip Off Press), and the anti- Nixon comics pamphlets ''Silent Majority Comics'' and ''Uncle Sam Takes LSD'' (both published by Rip Off Press). Schrier's solo appeared in '' Slow Death Funnies'' #1 (with J. Osborne and Gilbert Shelton), published by Last Gasp, ''Skull Comics'' #1 (Rip Off Press), and '' Yellow Dog'' #19, published in 1971 by The Print Mint. Schrier served with the

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Bibliography

Solo titles

* ''Silent Majority Comics'' (Rip Off Press, 1970) — photocopied minicomic * ''Uncle Sam Takes LSD'' (Rip Off Press, 1972) — photocopied minicomic

Overland Vegetable Stagecoach

* ''Mother's Oats Comix'' #1 ( Rip Off Press, 1969) * ''Mother's Oats Comix'' #2 (Rip Off Press, 1970) * ''Mindwarp: An Anthology'' by Sheridan & Schrier ( And/Or Press, 1975) * ''Mother's Oats Comix'' #3 (Rip Off Press, 1976)

Other comix

* '' Slow Death Funnies'' #1 (Last Gasp, 1970) — with Sheridan, Jim Osborne, Gilbert Shelton, and others * ''Skull Comics'' #1 (Rip Off Press 1970) — with Dave Sheridan, Greg Irons, Jack Jackson and Rory Hayes * ''Hydrogen Bomb and Biochemical Warfare Funnies'' (Rip Off Press, 1970) * '' Yellow Dog'' #19 ( Print Mint, 1971) * ''

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'' (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'' #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) Word Play Publications, 1998. * ''Notes from the Underground'' by Jay Kinney (1986)

External links

Schrier entry at the Lambiek Comiclopedia
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