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Artist Bio: Joel Beck

JOEL BECK (1944-1999).

When Joel Beck publishedthe Lenny Bruce-inspired comic LENNY OFLAREDO in 1965, he entered intohistory as thecreator of the second underground comic everpublished: Jack Jackson had preceded himwith GOD NOSE, but Beck beat RobertCrumb's seminal ZAP by a good twoyears.

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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. During that time he published three underground comic books, Lenny of Laredo, Marching Marvin, and The Profit.

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.]


Joel Beck


The Profit

Joel Beck was one of the earliest artists of American underground comix.

Soon he dropped out of high school and never graduated. 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.

Death

Beck died on September 21, 1999, from complications from alcoholism in Point Richmond, California. All are collector's items today.[1]

In 1965, humor magazine editors voted to choose the nation's top college cartoonist and gave the honor to Beck. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1998).


From: Snarf (1973)

Artwork © 1999 Joel Beck

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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.

In the early 1960s, he drew studio cards for Box Cards. He also produced the solo comics MARCHINGMARVIN and THE PROFIT (1966).

Beckmade his first national mark as acontributor "Public Gallery" in HarveyKurtzman'sHELP! Two other books, Marching Marvin and The Profit, followed. His comic book Lenny of Laredo, one of the earliest underground comic books of the 1960s, was the first underground comic book published on the West Coast.

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.

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Books by Joel Beck

Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy Poetry and History
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Joel Beck's Comics and Stories
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Rohrbach-lès-Bitche (Canton de)
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Sarreguemines et ses environs
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Bitche (Pays de) 1900-1939 (French Edition)
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Rohrbach-lès-Bitche et son canton (Chroniques lorraines)
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Joel Beck's Comics and Stories
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Om Home Made Comix No 10 English Edition
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Banzai
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The profit
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Lenny of Laredo
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SURVIVAL & AVALANCHE COURSE NOTES THE HISTORY OF THE SIERRA HIGH ROUTE
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Spouts: The Whale Who Saved Christmas
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Yellow Dog Vol.

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Yellow Dog Vol. I, Issue #8
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Flying Rutabaga Comic Arts Journal, Spring 1979
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Yellow Dog Vol.

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Yellow Dog Vol. II, Issues 11 & 12
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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.

Comments From Contemporaries (St. It was a satire loosely based on the career of embattled comedian Lenny Bruce.