Foolbert Sturgeon
| Frank Stack | |
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| Born | 1937 (age 79–80) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Printmaker, Painter |
| Pseudonym(s) | Foolbert Sturgeon |
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Notable works
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| Awards |
Harvey Award, 1995 Haxtur Award, Artist That We Love, 2006 Inkpot Award, 2011 |
| Spouse(s) | Mildred Roberta "Robbie" Powell (m. 1959–1998; her death) |
Frank Huntington Stack (born 1937 in Houston, Texas) is an American underground cartoonist and fine artist. 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, The Adventures of Jesus, in 1962.
Stack's main artistic influences were Gustave Doré, Roy Crane, and V. T. Hamlin. He is widely known as a printmaker, specializing in etchings and lithographs, and his sketchy comics style evokes Stack's background as an etcher. (His technique of creating etchings on-site was featured in American Artist magazine.) His oil paintings and watercolors mostly feature landscape and figure compositions.
Stack graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BFA in 1959. He received his M.A. at the University of Wyoming, and also studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière of Paris.
He was a long-time professor of art at the University of Missouri, where he taught from 1963–2001, and his now a professor emeritus. In addition, he did teaching stints at Appalachian State and Virginia Tech.
While at the University of Texas, Stack joined the staff of The Texas Ranger student humor magazine in 1957, and was editor of the magazine in 1958–1959. As editor, Stack aspired for the Ranger to emulate the humor exemplified by The New Yorker and Punch. He published comic strips by fellow UT student Gilbert Shelton, later known for Wonder Wart-Hog and The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.
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