Frank Stack

Frank Stack
Born 1937 (age 74–75)
Houston, Texas
United States
Pen name Foolbert Sturgeon
Occupation Comic book writer
Nationality American
Genres Underground comics

Frank Huntington Stack (aka Foolbert Sturgeon) (b. 1937 in Houston, Texas, United States)[1] is an American underground cartoonist. 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 comic book, The Adventures of Jesus, in 1962.

He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BFA in 1959.[2]. 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. In addition to publishing several articles in The Comics Journal, he has contributed comics to Zero Zero, Blab!, Snarf and Rip Off Comix anthologies. In 1972 Frank Stack contributed to The Rip Off Review of Western Culture with "Jesus Goes To The Faculty Party".

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Notes

  1. ^ Frank Stack / Foolbert Sturgeon Biography and Information: Comic Book Art - Underground Comix
  2. ^ Frank Stack - Artist, Art - Frank Huntington Stack

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