Hippy Comix, Inc. founder DAN FOGEL fled theatre into the open
crotch of Underground Comix. His comics retailing career led to collaborating
with Cherry creator Larry Welz, for whom he wrote and edited many comics.
He co-created the successful series Cherryâs Jubilee and co-published
Cherry Deluxe and current printings. He has also published dozens
of Underground artists in many titles, including S. Clay Wilson, Spain,
Kieron Dwyer, and Los Bros. Hernandez. His current
project is Fogel's Underground Comic Book Price Guide, due out next
summer. He lives with his wife Kim, daughter Paula Judith, over 20,000
comics, and hundreds of stuffed animals that plot against him. Check
out www.hippycomix.com!
HARRY S. ROBINS (1950-) is an illustrator and internationally
known comic book artist, whose recent collaboration with Spain Rodriguez
and author Bob Callahan is on the Internet at Salon.com's Dark Hotel site.
He is also by turns a writer of plays, poetry and fiction, an actor,
a public performer, a radio broadcaster and a Deacon in the Church of the
SubGenius. His voice characterizations may be heard in the controversial
and ultra-violent computer game, Half-Life, which in 1998 won the award
for Game of the Year. Robins has lived in San Francisco since 1976.
RANDY VOGEL A contributor to Rip Off Comix, he has also
appeared in Barbarian Women #3 (California Comics), UG!3K, as well as numerous
issues of Demi's Strange Bedfellows for Carnal Comics and Hippy Comix.
SPAIN RODRIGUEZ, legendary underground cartoonist, and contributor
to Zap Comix and many other classic titles, also created the first underground
tabloid, Zodiac Mindwarp. His character Trashman, Agent of the Sixth International,
was an icon in underground newspapers of the
'60s and is in print today in Trashman Lives! Big Bitch, another
popular Spain character, appears in She Comics. Spain's work currently
appears in the online graphic novel Dark Hotel, at sfgate.com, the LA Weekley
and Blab. His graphic novel, Nightmare Alley, was recently lauded by Time
Magazine.
Check out www.spainrodriguez.com
George Powell is a veteran journalist with more than 30 years
experience, most of it at the then Hearst-owned Examiner and for the past
four years, the Chronicle. After starting his daily newspaper career in
Springfield, Ill., editing "Saturday" magazine, he has held a variety of
positions, interviewing Robert Redford, Martina Navratilova, the Neville
Brothers and
former Giants manager Leo Durocher to name a few of the many duties
and assignments he has performed. He has been a member of the systems department,
responsible for producing the entire paper, then the production manager
of the Examiner/Chronicle Sunday magazine, as well as (briefly) the old
"Image" magazine. He has reviewed movies, restaurants
and many live performances through the years. He remains steadfastly
middle-class and single, and declines to state his political party preference,
but has no use whatever for the current administration.
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