Greg Irons

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Greg Irons (left) with Don Eaker at the 1981 Reno National Convention.

Greg Irons (born September 29, 1947 as Gregory Rodman Irons in Philadelphia , † November 14, 1984 in Bangkok ) was an American comic artist , illustrator and tattooist .

Life

Gregory Rodman Irons grew up in Philadelphia. Inspired by early MAD paperbacks , he began drawing cartoons. In 1967 he moved to San Francisco and designed some posters for the Fillmore Auditorium. For Bill Graham Productions he designed posters a. a. for the bands Moby Grape , Jefferson Airplane , CSNY and Santana . Then he moved to London , where he worked on the Beatles animated film Yellow Submarine . In 1969 he went back to San Francisco and continued to publish posters, record covers and comic book drawings.

By the mid-1970s, Irons designed several book illustrations, including for Troubadour Press, Sunset and Bellerophon books. In 1972 guitarist Peter Kaukonen returned from a Jefferson Starship tour; he got a tattoo from Thom Devita while on tour in New York City. In conversation, Greg Irons learned the price Kaukonen had paid and decided to earn his living as a tattoo artist in the future. He ordered his first tattoo equipment from Spaulding and Rogers around 1975. Irons realized that he could not learn the art of tattooing as an autodidact and began an apprenticeship in 1980 with Dean Dennis, a student of Lyle Tuttle , in San Francisco. Irons worked for a year at Deans, then in Seattle with CJ Danzl and Pete Stephens; from the end of 1982 back in San Francisco with Henry Goldfield.

Greg Irons was hit by a city bus in Bangkok on November 14, 1984 and was fatally injured.

comics

Original publications

From the late sixties onwards, Irons regularly published comics in various underground comix magazines such as Yellow Dog (1969–1971), Skull Comics (1970–1972), Slow Death (1970–1979) and Dr. Wirtham's Comix and Stories (1978-1983). The following booklets and albums were also published:

  • 1971 The Legion of Charlies . Last Gasp Eco Funnies, Berkeley. (With Tom Veitch )
  • 1971 Light . The Print Mint, Berkeley. (With Tom Veitch )
  • 1972 Deviant Slice Funnies . The Print Mint, Berkeley. (With Tom Veitch )
  • 1973 Deviant Slice Funnies . The Print Mint, Berkeley. (With Tom Veitch )
  • 1981 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner . Schanes and Schanes, San Diego. (Portfolio)
  • 1987 The Early Work of Greg Irons . Rip Off Press, San Francisco. (Underground Classics # 4)
  • 1989 Greg Irons Early Work Vol 2 . Rip Off Press, San Francisco. (Underground Classics # 9)
  • 2006 You Call this Art ?! . Fantagraphics Books, Seattle.

German publications

  • 1974 U-Comix special volume # 9 - Greg Irons . UPN-Volksverlag, Kucha.

The following stories also appeared in Germany:

  • 1973 The big tail . In: Horror Comics , Verlag Klaus Bär, Berlin.
  • 1974 Ecotopia 2001 . In: U-Comix special volume # 7 - Anthology Future , UPN / Volksverlag, Kucha.
  • 1975 Hard Times Comics . In: Melzers Comic Reader , Melzer Verlag, Cologne.
  • 1982 A Gothic Tale . In: Menschenblut # 3, Blutshop, Petersberg.
  • 1983 monkey lust . In: U-Comix # 36, Volksverlag, Linden.
  • 1984 Darnold's dilemma . In: U-Comix # 49, Volksverlag, Linden.
  • 1984 Gregor, the red-assed baboon . In: U-Comix # 50, Volksverlag, Linden.
  • 1984 Krebs-GmbH . In: U-Comix # 51, Volksverlag, Linden.
  • 1985 Glory and Honor of Whaling . In: U-Comix # 55, Volksverlag, Linden.
  • 1985 Cold Turkey . In: U-Comix # 60, Alpha Comic Verlag, Nuremberg.

literature

  • Patrick Rosenkranz: You Call This Art? A Greg Irons retrospective. Fantagraphics Books 2006, ISBN 1-560-9775-4X .
  • Patrick Rosenkranz: Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution, 1963-1975. Fantagraphics Books 2002, ISBN 1-56097-464-8 .
  • DE Hardy : tattoo-time 3, MUSIC & SEA TATTOOS. Hardy Marks Publications, Hawaii 1988, ISBN 0-945367-04-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Greg Irons. In: allmusic. Retrieved July 31, 2016 .
  2. ↑ tattooarchive.com
  3. ↑ Patrick Rosenkranz: Greg Irons Retrospective. Fantagraphics 2006, ISBN 1-56097-754-X .
personal data
SURNAME Irons, Greg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Irons, Gregory Rodman (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cartoonist and tattoo artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1984
Place of death Bangkok , Thailand