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Gilbert Shelton (born 1940, Houston, Texas) is an American cartoonist and underground comics artist. He is the creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, and Wonder Wart-Hog.
He graduated from Lamar High School in Houston. He attended Washington and Lee University, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin where he received his bachelor's degree in the social sciences in 1961. His early cartoons were published in the University of Texas' humor magazine The Texas Ranger.
Directly after graduating, Shelton moved to New York City and got a job editing automotive magazines where he would sneak his drawings into print. The idea for the character of Wonder Wart-Hog, a porcine parody of Superman, came to him in 1961. The following year, Shelton moved back to Texas to enroll in graduate school and get a student deferment from the draft. The first two Wonder Wart-Hog stories appeared in Bacchanal, a short-lived college humor magazine, in the spring of 1962. He then became editor of The Texas Ranger and published more Wonder Wart-Hog stories.
Gilbert created his most famous strip, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, in 1968 and Fat Freddy's Cat in 1969. He was last known to be living in Paris.
Resources
- "Gilbert Shelton Interviewed by Frank Stack". The Comics Journal (http://www.tcj.com/2_archives/i_shelton.html). Retrieved Sep. 23, 2004.
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