FEELGOOD FUNNIES
FEELGOOD FUNNIES
Rip-Off Press (1969-1971)
Feelgood Funnies is a unique creation from Frank Stack (aka Foolbert Sturgeon), featuring the strangest head shrink you will ever meet. The 12 years between the two issues was about 12 times too long to wait. I wish Stack had done much more with these characters. Full series review coming soon
Frank Huntington Stack (born October 31, 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 1964.
Stack’s main artistic influences were Gustave Doré, Roy Crane, and V. T. Hamlin.[5] 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.)[citation needed] His oil paintings and watercolors mostly feature landscape and figure compositions. He lives in Columbia, Missouri where he was a longtime professor at the University of Missouri.
