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Gilbert Shelton

Gilbert Shelton (Born 1940) is active/lives in Texas, California / France.  Gilbert Shelton is known for Underground comix illustration, cartoon.

Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940, Houston, Texas) is an American cartoonist and underground comix artist.  He is the creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, Wonder Wart-Hog, Philbert Desanex, Not Quite Dead, and the cover art to The Grateful Dead's 1978 album Shakedown Street.

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 graduation, 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   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3471 characters.]  Artist bio

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