Gilbert Shelton

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Cartoonist Gilbert Shelton at a panel discussion at the Munich Comic Festival 2013.

The illustrator (comic artist) Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940 in Houston , Texas ) is next to Robert Crumb the most important representative of the American underground comics ("Comix"). His best known series is The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers . He has lived in France since the mid-1980s.

Gilbert Shelton studied at Washington and Lee University , Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin , where he received his bachelor's degree in social sciences in 1961 . His first cartoons appeared in the Texas Ranger magazine .

Immediately afterwards, he worked for a short time as the editor of an automobile magazine in New York City . In 1961, he started on his comic series Wonder Wart-Hog ( Wonder Wart-Hog ), a Superman parody to work. The following year he moved back to Texas and attended graduate school . The first episodes of the Wunderwarzenschwein appeared in the spring of 1962 in Bacchanal , a short-lived college magazine . He then became an editor at The Texas Ranger and published other stories about the miracle warthog.

Then he switched to art school , where he met Janis Joplin . He was declared unfit for military service because he admitted to using psychedelic drugs. 1964–65 he lived in Cleveland . He then became 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 series, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers , he draws since 1968 , in 1969 was followed by Fat Freddy's Cat ( Fat Freddy's Cat ). Although it was not supported by any major publisher, the two series achieved high circulation in many countries. Urban Gwerder published first publications in Europe in his magazine Hotcha .

He has lived in Paris and Burgundy since the mid-1980s . He has only rarely published since the late 1990s. In 2005 a new miracle pig comic was published (Zap Comix # 15, 2005). His last work, Not Quite Dead , was published a. a. in Rip Off Comix # 25, he did PIC together with the French cartoonist.

Gilbert Shelton is friends with the German comic artist Gerhard Seyfried , with whom he also worked several times . Among other things, they drew Phineas' Big Show , together with Paul Mavrides and Shelton illustrated a page in Seyfried's "Flucht aus Berlin".

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SURNAME Shelton, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas