| Frank Stack | ||
| Birth Date: October 31, 1937 |
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| Hailing from Houston, Texas, Frank Huntington Stack is a painter, printmaker and cartoonist. With degrees from the University of Texas, the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Wyoming, Stack was a professor of art at the University of Missouri-Columbia until 2001. Stack is best known for his landscape and figure compositions.
He also had a distinguished career as an underground cartoonist. Since Stack didn’t want to jeopardize his chance at tenure and financial security, particularly since he taught in the Bible belt and his cartoons were often sacrilegious, among other political offenses he went under the pseudonym Foolbert Sturgeon. His early commix work included The Adventures of Jesus (1962), Amazon Comics (1972), Feelgood Funnies (1972), The New Adventures of Jesus (1969), and Jesus Meets the Armed Services (1972) to name just a few. Stack’s Adventures of Jesus in 1962 has been regarded to be the very first underground comic, though it was a 14-page Xerox copy - circulated only among a small group of friends and never offered for sale. Nonetheless, Stack’s status as one of the pioneer underground cartoonist is unquestioned.
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