Ted Richards (artist)

Ted Richards
Born	Theodore Richards 1946 (age 70–71) Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S.
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Cartoonist
Notable works	E.Z. Wolf, Mellow Cat, Dopin' Dan.
http://www.tedrichards.net

Ted Richards (born 1946) is an American web designer and cartoonist, best known for his underground comix.

Born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Richards developed his fascination for creating cartoons when he five years old. His father was in the Green Berets, and assignments kept the family living in different locations.

After serving in the United States Air Force, Richards moved in 1969 to San Francisco when he was 23, (the same year Rip Off Press was launched). He became friends with Gilbert Shelton and contributed to some issues of Shelton's The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Over a decade, he worked full-time as a cartoonist on the titles Dopin' Dan, E.Z. Wolf, and Mellow Cat. Richards recalled, "For me, the whole explosion, and the opportunities that this presented, is hard to describe. You could do about anything. It was an incredible, eclectic vision of art, design, storytelling, writing, color."

Beginning in 1971, RIchards was a member of the Air Pirates collective, one of the key contributors to Air Pirates Funnies, an underground comix title that led to a lawsuit by Walt Disney Productions. The nucleus of the Air Pirates collective began to form in 1969–1970 when Bobby London met Richards at the office of the Berkeley Tribe, an underground newspaper where both were staff cartoonists. As a member of the collective, Richards lived together with founder Dan O'Neill, London, Gary Hallgren, and Shary Flenniken in a warehouse on Harrison Street in San Francisco. Richards' Dopin' Dan comics, produced during this period and published by Last Gasp in 1972–1973, imitated the art style (and military theme) of Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey.

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