We're going deeper underground this week on comiXology with the release of Frank Stack's Foolbert Funnies: Histories and Other Fictions.
"Cult" cartoonist Frank Stack is best known as the artist behind Harvey Pekar's award-winning graphic novel My Cancer Year (his art was featured in the movie American Splendor!), and as the creator of one of the first underground comic books The Adventures of Jesus. Foolbert Funnies collects his comics—inspired by Stack's pop culture-filled childhood and travails as a fine arts professor—that ran in National Lampoon and other publications. In this book, you will find adventuress Dirty Diana; nostalgic time traveler Frank Crankcase; commonsensical Dr. Feelgood; politician Paddy Booshwah; "Southern Fried Homicide"; and a host of Amazons, artists, and pulp heroes all depicted in Stack's scratchy, hatchy "crowquill" style. Foolbert Funnies is a tribute to a Texan who's been quietly creating observational iconoclastic art for more than 40 years and now you can have it all on your own personal reading device for only $18.99 through comiXology.
"Frank Stack is one of those artists whose work I gobble up eagerly whenever I find it. For me he's one of the best cartoonists of this or any other period." — Robert Crumb