Joel beck författare
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In 1965, his first full-length comic book, Lenny of Laredo, was published. In January 1966, The Pelican reprinted much of his previous work and labeled him "Man of the Decade".[2] His cartoons also appeared in the Berkeley Barb, and he penned a number of handbills and posters for the Jabberwock coffeehouse on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.[1] In addition, he was a founding member and regular contributor to the underground anthology Yellow Dog, published from 1968 to 1973.
Visiting UC Berkeley, he started submitting cartoons to the campus humor magazine, The Pelican, slipping them under the door to editors who believed he was a college student. The comic strip that gave him this historical importance is 'Lenny of Laredo' (1965), a satirical riches-to-rags story about a foul-mouthed comedian obviously modeled after cult humorist Lenny Bruce.
Among his graphic influences are Robert Crumb, Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Albert Hurter, Walt Kelly, Harvey Kurtzman and Ronald Searle.
In the early 1960s Joel Beck had a nine-to-five job working for Roth Greeting Cards.
Other comics of Joel Beck are 'Marching Marvin' (1966) and 'The Profit' (1966).
In a detailed 1987 self-portrait, Beck depicted himself in an ecstatic state, high on the act of creation, as he labored at his drawing table late into the night, surrounded by his books, artwork, comics, Pepsi and dog.[3]
Fine art
An accomplished fine artist, Beck created many paintings in acrylics, oils and watercolors—artwork now sought by international collectors.
During that time he published three underground comic books, Lenny of Laredo, Marching Marvin, and The Profit. Block' (1912) and the infamous Tijuana Bibles from the 1930s and 1940s).
He also produced the solo comics MARCHINGMARVIN and THE PROFIT (1966).
Beckmade his first national mark as acontributor "Public Gallery" in HarveyKurtzman'sHELP! It was a satire loosely based on the career of embattled comedian Lenny Bruce. Together with Frank Stack ('New Adventures of Jezus', 1962) and Jaxon ('God Nose', 1964), Beck can even be considered the earliest genuine underground comix artist in history (not counting prototypical examples like Ernest Riebe's 'Mr.
He lived for several months in Manhattan in 1962 before returning to the West Coast. Until his death in 1999, Joel Beck lived in obscurity in Point Richmond, California doing occasional advertising commissions and being looked after by friends.
Beck wrote a personal homage to Robert Crumb in Monte Beauchamp's book 'The Life and Times of R.
Crumb. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1998).
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magazine in the'60s. Later in his abbreviated life heproduced mainly commissioned drawings and paintingsfor a small circle of friends and connoisseurs.
[Obituary taken in part from fromthe 2000 Harvey Awards ceremony.]
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Joel Beck
The Profit
Joel Beck was one of the earliest artists of American underground comix.
In Richmond, California, while attending De Anza High School, he began a lifelong friendship with the cartoonist Roger Brand. Soon he dropped out of high school and never graduated. KitchenSink also collected his earliest work underthe title Joel Beck's Comics and Stories.
Though Beck was prolificearly in his career, his output droppedprecipitously in the last two decades of his life,due in large part to illness and chronichomelessness.
Biography
Early life
Born in Ross, California, Beck grew up in El Sobrante, California, as an ill and bedridden child, who battled a combination of tuberculosis and spinal meningitis.
Underground comix
In the early 1960s, Beck moved into a converted closet in a housing unit near the campus of U.C. Berkeley, known as Haste House, and he continued to do cartoons for The Pelican.
Kinney made a graphic contribution to 'ProJunior’ (Kitchen Sink Press, 1971), a one-shot comic book paying homage to Don Dohler's character ProJunior. Beck's work appeard in several underground comix magazines (Snarf, Comix Book and others) until the late 1970s, when his work disappeared from the scene.
Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Use American EnglishTemplate:Use mdy datesTemplate:Infobox comics creatorJoel Beck (May 7, 1943 – September 14, 1999) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist and cartoonist.
Kitchen Sink Press reprinted those stories in 1977 under the title 'Joel Beck's Comics & Stories'.