Joseph Quarles Schenkman (born September 8, 1947) is an American publisher and
underground
Underground most commonly refers to:
* Subterranea (geography), the regions beneath the surface of the Earth
Underground may also refer to:
Places
* The Underground (Boston), a music club in the Allston neighborhood of Boston
* The Underground ...
cartoonist.
Schenkman was part of underground cartooning's original wave, active in the late 1960s as a regular contributor to ''
Rat Subterranean News'', ''
Gothic Blimp Works
''Gothic Blimp Works'', an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by Peter Leggieri and the '' East Village Other'', was billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper". During its eight-issue run, the publication displayed comics in both color ...
'' and the ''
East Village Other
''The East Village Other'' (often abbreviated as ''EVO'') was an American underground newspaper in New York City, issued biweekly during the 1960s. It was described by '' The New York Times'' as "a New York newspaper so countercultural that it ...
'' in New York City.
Arcade
In San Francisco in the early 1970s, he worked alongside such cartoonists as
S. Clay Wilson,
Spain Rodriguez
Manuel Rodriguez (March 2, 1940 – November 28, 2012), better known as Spain or Spain Rodriguez, was an American underground cartoonist who created the character Trashman. His experiences on the road with the motorcycle club, the Road Vultures M ...
,
Justin Green,
Bill Griffith
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and
Art Spiegelman
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. With the latter three, he collaborated on ''
Arcade: The Comics Revue''. In the 1980s, his cartoons appeared regularly in the ''
National Lampoon'', where he was a contributing editor and collaborated with
P.J. O'Rourke
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on satirical features.
Books
Schenkman is currently head of the
Rochester, Vermont
Rochester is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,099 at the 2020 census. The central village is delineated as the Rochester census-designated place.
Set on the edge of the Green Mountain National Forest, th ...
-based Schenkman Books. Founded by Alfred Schenkman in 1961, Schenkman Books is known for sociology and social welfare titles. He is a musician who plays in the Skanktone Jug Band and Night Crawler.
References
Living people
Underground cartoonists
1947 births
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