Monster 2012
Digital color print (unique)
2012
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Rick Parker:
Richard Lowell Parker, born 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.
Parker grew up in Savannah, Georgia. Parker earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Georgia, and his Master of Fine Arts at the Pratt Institute.
In 1966 Parker was drafted into the United States Army, an experience that informs his forthcoming illustrated autobiography, Drafted.
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)
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 Gallery, 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. He has been awarded a C.A.P.S. Grant, 1978, a Village Voice Photo Contest, 1985, Comics Buyer's Guide Award, Favorite Letterer, 1989/90, 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)