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Recent Acquisition: The New Adventures of Jesus

This bright and irreverent early underground comic is by author and artist Foolbert Sturgeon (aka Frank Stack). 

Sturgeon, Foolbert. The new adventures of Jesus. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Rip Off Press, August 1971.

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Frank Stack: “Before the Bath” original art (1994)

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Self portrait by Frank Stack (aka Foolbert Sturgeon), 1986.

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R.I.P. underground comics pioneer Frank Stack, 1937-2026 - The Comics Journal

Underground comics pioneer Frank Stack, dead at 88. As Foolbert Sturgeoun he created what was perhaps the very first underground comic book.

"Sometimes drawing cartoons is the only thing you can do. You can hope it might even have some civilizing effect on somebody, especially if you're not too cruel about it. It's better than taking a revenge that's really going to hurt somebody. Better to draw cartoons and let your anger out than insult people or go out and do self-destructive stuff like driving your car against a tree." -- Frank Stack, 1996

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"The New Adventures of Jesus" painted strip by Frank Stack, 1991.

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Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department:

Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions by Frank Stack

224-page black & white 7.75" x 10" softcover • $24.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-808-3

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"Cult" cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar's award-winning graphic novel, My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the American Splendor film), and as the creator of the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects comics—inspired by Stack's pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. (For decades, Stack's work was published under the pseudonym "Foolbert Sturgeon" to protect his career.) In Foolbert Funnies, you will find adventuress Dirty Diana; nostalgic time traveler Frank Crankcase; commonsensical Dr. Feelgood; politician Paddy Booshwah; "Southern Fried Homicide"; and a host of Amazons, artists, and pulp heroes, all depicted in Stack's scratchy, hatchy "crowquill" style. This "best of the rest" is a tribute to a Texan who's been quietly creating observational, iconoclastic art for more than forty years.

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Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions by Frank Stack

224-page black & white 7.75" x 10" softcover • $24.99 ISBN: 978-1-60699-808-3

Ships in: December 2014 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now

"Cult" cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar's award-winning graphic novel, My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the American Splendor film), and as the creator of the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects comics—inspired by Stack's pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. (For decades, Stack's work was published under the pseudonym "Foolbert Sturgeon" to protect his career.) In Foolbert Funnies, you will find adventuress Dirty Diana; nostalgic time traveler Frank Crankcase; commonsensical Dr. Feelgood; politician Paddy Booshwah; "Southern Fried Homicide"; and a host of Amazons, artists, and pulp heroes, all depicted in Stack's scratchy, hatchy "crowquill" style. This "best of the rest" is a tribute to a Texan who's been quietly creating observational, iconoclastic art for more than forty years.

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"Sometimes drawing cartoons is the only thing you can do."

So begins the foreword, written by Bob Levin, of Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions. This 19-page, 2.6 MB downloadable excerpt for our collection of Frank Stack's underground comix contains the full foreword, the full seven-page introduction by Frank Stack himself, and the first six pages of comics.

Foolbert Funnies is expected to land in bookstores by the end of 2014, which is rapidly approaching, so make sure you've got your pre-order in!