Joe Schenkman

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Joe Schenkman is an erstwhile American underground cartoonist. Schenkman was part of Underground Cartooning's original wave, active in the late '60s as a regular contributor to Rat Subterranean News, Gothic Blimp Works, the East Village Other (EVO), in New York City. In San Francisco in the early 70s, he worked alongside such cartoonists as S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, and Art Spiegelman. With the latter three, he collaborated on Arcade: The Comics Revue. His work appeared regularly in the National Lampoon in the early 1980's.

Schenkman is currently head of Schenkman Books, a company founded by Alfred Schenkman in the 1950s, known for sociology and social welfare titles, and plays in the Skanktone Jug Band.