Gilbert Shelton

The Illustrator ( cartoonist ) Gilbert Shelton ( born May 31, 1940 in Houston, Texas) is next to Robert Crumb is the most important representative of American underground comics ( " Comix "). His most famous series is The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Since the mid- 1980s, he lived in France.

Gilbert Shelton studied at the Washington and Lee University, Texas A & M University and the University of Texas at Austin, where he made ​​1961 his Bachelor in Social Sciences. His first cartoons appeared in the magazine Texas The Texas Ranger.

Right after that, he worked for a short time as editor of a car magazine in New York City. In 1961 he began working on his comic series Wonder Warthog ( Wonder Wart- Hog ), a Supermanparodie to work. The following year he moved back to Texas and attended a graduate school. The first episodes of the wonder wart hog appeared in the spring of 1962 at the Bacchanal, a short-lived college magazine. After that, he was editor of The Texas Ranger and published more stories about the wonder warthog.

He then moved to the art school, where he met Janis Joplin. For his military service, he was declared unfit because he admitted to consume psychedelic drugs. In 1964-65 he lived in Cleveland. After that, he was Art Director at The Vulcan Gas Company in Austin and designed numerous posters. In the summer of 1968 he moved to San Francisco.

His most famous comic book series, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, he draws since 1968, followed in 1969 Fat Freddys Cat ( Fat Freddy 's Cat ). Although it was not supported by any major publisher, reached the two series long runs in many countries. First publications in Europe published in his magazine Urban Gwerder Hotcha.

Since the mid- 1980s, he lived in Paris and Burgundy. Since the late 1990s, he published only rarely. Appeared in 2005, a new wonder warthog Comic ( Zap Comix # 15, 2005). His last work Not Quite Dead, appeared among others in Rip Off Comix # 25, he had together with French cartoonist PIC. Currently, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are filmed with stop motion technique.

Gilbert Shelton is friends with the German cartoonist Gerhard Seyfried, with whom he also collaborated frequently, among other things, they drew Phineas ' Big Show, along with Paul Mavrides.