Rick Parker

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Richard Lowell "Rick" Parker (born August 31, 1946) is an American artist, writer, and cartoonist whose humorous artwork has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Life magazine, and various comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Parker is widely known as the artist of MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head comic book, published by Marvel from 1994 to 1996. He wrote and illustrated his own graphic novel, Deadboy, in 2010.

Early life

Parker grew up in Savannah, Georgia. He did not own many comic books as a child — instead, his artistic influences include Little Golden Books and the comic strips Mutt and Jeff and Little Orphan Annie. (He also lists Will Elder, Wally Wood, Carl Barks, Harvey Kurtzman, Roy Crane, and Jack Davis as influences.) Parker earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Georgia, and his Master of Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute.

Career

Comics

Parker got his start in the comics industry as a letterer for Marvel Comics, starting in the late 1970s. Parker was one of the four original artists of The Pekar Project (SMITH Magazine, 2009–2010), which brought the writing of the American autobiographical comics pioneer Harvey Pekar to the web.

He also drew the introductory pages of Tales from the Crypt for Papercutz from 2007 to 2009. Parker has illustrated a series of graphic novel parodies (written by Stefan Petrucha) for Papercutz Slices (Papercutz) — titles include Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid (2009), Harry Potty and The Deathly Boring (2010), Breaking Down (2011) (a parody of the Twilight series), Percy Jerkson and The Ovolactovegetarians (2011), and The Hunger Pains (2012).

Fine art

Parker's fine art consists of paintings, drawings, collage, assemblages, sculpture, lithographs, photographs, performance, and conceptual art. He was the founder of the Barking Dog Museum in New York City (1975–1987). His artwork has been shown at the Hundred Acres Gallery in New York, the NYU Art Gallery, The Georgia Museum of Art, the Pratt Institute Art Galley, Franklin Furnace Book Archives, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, and the DUMBO Arts Center.

Parker's comic art and fine art is in private collections and several institutions.

Awards

C.A.P.S. Grant, 1978

Village Voice Photo Contest, 1985

Comics Buyer's Guide Award, Favorite Letterer, 1989/90

Bibliography

As Illustrator: Everything I Really Need To Know I Learned from Television (Applause Theatre Books, 1992) — written by Barry Dutter

As author: Deadboy (self-published, 2011)

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Rick Parker is widely known as the artist of "MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head Comic Book" and also drew the Introductory Pages of "Tales From The Crypt" and the graphic novel parodies, "Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid","Harry Potty and The Deathly Boring", "Breaking Down" (a Twilight Parody,), "Percy Jerkson and The Ovolactovegetarians", and "The Hunger Pains" for Papercutz. Rick also illustrates stories by legendary Cleveland autobiographical comics writer Harvey Pekar for The Pekar Project and SMITH MAGAZINE. Rick recently illustrated "Night of The Black Chrysanthemum" for SMITH's Next Door Neighbor Series by Michele Carlo.

Rick's full-color web comic "Deadboy" can be seen online at http://www.rick-parker-comics.blogspot.com To see more of this artist's artwork please Google Image Search "Rick Parker Art."