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He went on to contribute strips to suchalternative California institutions as THEBERKELEY BARB and satirical posters (notably asexy "Odalesque" with a reclining Daisy Duck)and comix such as YELLOW DOG for ThePrint Mint.
Joel Beck was an early and regular contributor tothe Kitchen Sink Press undergroundanthologies SNARF, BIZARRE SEX and DOPECOMIX and the Kitchen/Marvelexperiment COMIX BOOK, as well as the 1978one-shot BANZAI! co-created with KimDeitch and the late Roger Brand.
Block' (1912) and the infamous Tijuana Bibles from the 1930s and 1940s).
Death
Beck died on September 21, 1999, from complications from alcoholism in Point Richmond, California. 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.
Comments From Contemporaries (St. He also produced the solo comics MARCHINGMARVIN and THE PROFIT (1966).
Beckmade his first national mark as acontributor "Public Gallery" in HarveyKurtzman'sHELP! The San Francisco Chronicle commented:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Martin's Griffin, New York, 1998).
From: Snarf (1973)
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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.
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. 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.
Two other books, Marching Marvin and The Profit, followed. 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, he drew studio cards for Box Cards. 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. In Richmond, California, while attending De Anza High School, he began a lifelong friendship with the cartoonist Roger Brand.
magazine in the'60s. Soon he dropped out of high school and never graduated. 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.