MOTHER OATS COMICS
mother oats comics
Rip Off Press 1969-1977
After seeing early underground comics in the late ’60s, native Ohioans Fred Schrier and Dave Sheridan became enamored with the revolution and determined to get into the business. In the summer of ’69, they traveled from Cleveland to San Francisco in Sheridan’s Austin-Healey Sprite, a miniscule but charming British sports car. After this trek they discovered a few potatoes rolling around under the seats and thusly named Sheridan’s Sprite “the Overland Vegetable Stagecoach,” an appellation which would also turn into the name of their partnership in comics.