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Parker at a comics convention in April 2016
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Born | Richard Lowell Parker August 31, 1946 Miami, Florida, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Artist, Letterer |
Pseudonym(s) | Hatch, Ricko, Ricko the Sicko, Skully |
Notable works
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Beavis and Butt-Head comic book Deadboy Papercutz Slices |
rickparkercartoons |
Richard Lowell "Rick" Parker (born August 31, 1946) is an American artist, writer, and cartoonist whose humorous artwork has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Life magazine, and various comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Parker is widely known as the artist of MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head comic book, published by Marvel from 1994 to 1996. He wrote and illustrated his own graphic novel, Deadboy, in 2010.
Parker grew up in Savannah, Georgia. He did not own many comic books as a child — instead, his artistic influences include Little Golden Books and the comic strips Mutt and Jeff and Little Orphan Annie. (He also lists Will Elder, Wally Wood, Carl Barks, Harvey Kurtzman, Roy Crane, and Jack Davis as influences.) Parker earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Georgia, and his Master of Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute.
Parker got his start in the comics industry as a letterer for Marvel Comics, starting in the late 1970s. Parker was one of the four original artists of The Pekar Project (SMITH Magazine, 2009–2010), which brought the writing of the American autobiographical comics pioneer Harvey Pekar to the web.