Radical America Komiks

Gilbert Shelton attended university in Austin, TX, where he became editor of the student magazine, The Texas Ranger. This was to prove Shelton’s last “real job.” For in 1967, after contributing to various underground comix with his earliest character, Wonder Wart-Hog, and designing posters for rock concerts, Shelton created the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. In 1969 he and some friends from Texas moved to San Francisco to set up Rip Off Press from which Freak Brothers strips were soon syndicated, borrowed (or stolen!) by a host of American underground newspapers and magazines. Shelton currently lives in Paris, France, with his wife and three cats.

Paul Buhle was the editor of Radical America in the late 1960s. He has edited comics biographies of figures including Emma Goldman, Che Guevara, Rosa Luxemburg, and Isadora Duncan.

Jay Kinney was an active participant in the underground comics movement from 1968 through the ‘70s and into the ‘80s. He cofounded the romance comic satire Young Lust, founded and edited Anarchy Comics, and contributed to numerous other comics.