Frank Huntington Stack (aka Foolbert Sturgeon) (b. 1937 in Houston, Texas, United States) is an American underground

Underground comix

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence...

 cartoonist

Cartoonist

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. Working under the name Foolbert Sturgeon to avoid persecution for his work while living in the bible belt

Bible Belt

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, Stack published what is considered by many to be the first underground comic book, The Adventures of Jesus, in 1962.

He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a BFA in 1959.. He was editor of the Texas Ranger student humor magazine from 1958 to 1959. He was also a Professor of Art at the University of Missouri

University of Missouri

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, and did stints teaching at Appalachian State and Virginia Tech. In addition to publishing several articles in The Comics Journal

The Comics Journal

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, he has contributed comics to Zero Zero

Zero Zero (comic)

Zero Zero is an alternative comics anthology that was published by Fantagraphics Books from 1995 to 2000. It was notable among comics anthologies for the number of serialized works that appeared in its pages, including Richard Sala's "The Chuckling Whatsit", Dave Cooper's "Crumple", Mack White's...

, Blab!, Snarf and Rip Off Comix anthologies. In 1972 Frank Stack contributed to The Rip Off Review of Western Culture

The Rip Off Review of Western Culture

Rip Off Review Of Western Culture was an underground comic magazine based in San Francisco, California. There were three issues in 1972. The publication was historically significant in that it brought together the work of many noteworthy underground artists and writers.-History:The Rip Off Review...

 with "Jesus Goes To The Faculty Party".

Books

• The Adventures of Jesus (1962)
• The New Adventures of Jesus (1969)
• Jesus Meets the Armed Services (1970)
• Jesus Comics #3 featuring Jesus Joins the Academic Community (1972)
• Feelgood Funnies (1972)
• Dorman's Doggie (1990)
• Naked Glory - the Erotic Art of Frank Stack
• Our Cancer Year
  Our Cancer Year
  Our Cancer Year is a graphic novel written by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner and illustrated by Frank Stack.-Overview:Published in 1994 by the New York Press publisher Four Walls Eight Windows, Our Cancer Year relates the story of Harvey's struggle to overcome cancer, as well as serving as a social...
  
  written by Harvey Pekar
  Harvey Pekar
  Harvey Lawrence Pekar was an American underground comic book writer, music critic and media personality, best known for his autobiographical American Splendor comic series. In 2003, the series inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.Pekar described American Splendor as "an...
  
  (1994)
• The New Adventures of Jesus - The Second Coming (2007) Compilation and commentary

External links

• Denis Kitchen
• Frank Stack Collection at the University of Missouri Libraries
• UT Texas Ranger Magazine archive