Frank Stack

For other people named Frank Stack, see Frank Stack (disambiguation).
Frank Stack
Born 1937 (age 78–79)
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Nationality American
Area(s) Cartoonist, Artist
Pseudonym(s) Foolbert Sturgeon
Notable works
Awards Haxtur Award, Artist That We Love, 2006
Inkpot Award, 2011

Frank Huntington Stack (a.k.a. Foolbert Sturgeon) (born 1937 in Houston, Texas)[1] is an American underground cartoonist and fine artist. 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 comix, The Adventures of Jesus, in 1962.[2][3]

Education

Stack graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BFA in 1959.[4] He was editor of the Texas Ranger student humor magazine from 1958 to 1959. He was also a professor of art at the University of Missouri, and did stints teaching at Appalachian State and Virginia Tech. His technique of creating etchings on-site was featured in American Artist magazine.

Career

Starting in 1962, Stack (using the pen-name Foolbert Sturgeon) published The Adventures of Jesus strips in early counterculture publications like The Austin Iconoclastic and The Charlatan, as well as The Texas Ranger. In 1964, then Texas Ranger editor Gilbert Shelton collected about a dozen of the strips, designed a cover, and made 50 photocopies of the collection, giving them to associates around the University of Texas at Austin campus.

Stack's most prolific period as a cartoonist was in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During this period, Rip Off Press (co-founded by Shelton) published three issues of his Jesus Comics, as well as such solo titles as Feelgood Funnies and Amazon Comics. In 1972 Stack contributed to The Rip Off Review of Western Culture with "Jesus Goes To The Faculty Party." In addition to publishing several articles in The Comics Journal, Stack contributed comics to such as anthologies as Zero Zero, Blab!, Snarf, Rip Off Comix, and Weirdo.

From 1986 onward, Stack was a regular contributor to Harvey Pekar's American Splendor. Stack illustrated the acclaimed nonfiction graphic novel Our Cancer Year, written by Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner, which won the 1995 Harvey Award for best original graphic novel.[5]

Exhibitions

Books

Notes

  1. ↑ Frank Stack / Foolbert Sturgeon Biography and Information: Comic Book Art - Underground Comix
  2. ↑ Stack, Frank; Shelton, Gilbert (25 December 2006). "Introduction". The New Adventures of Jesus. Fantagraphics Books. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-56097-780-3.
  3. ↑ Skinn, Dez (20 May 2004). "Heroes of the Revolution". Comix: The Underground Revolution. Thunder's Mouth Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-56025-572-7.
  4. ↑ Frank Stack - Artist, Art - Frank Huntington Stack
  5. ↑ Harveyawards.org
  6. ↑ "Exhibition - Frank Stack at 75". Missouri Life.

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