Grass Green

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Grass Green
BornRichard Edward Green
(1939-05-07)May 7, 1939
Fort Wayne, Indiana
DiedAugust 5, 2002(2002-08-05) (aged 63)
Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist, Penciller
Notable works
Xal-Kor the Human Cat
Super Soul Comix
AwardsAlley Award, 1966

Richard Edward "Grass" Green (May 7, 1939

fanzines. His "outrageous" 1970s and 1980s underground work used searing humor to expose America's racism and bigotry.[4]

Biography

Born in

The Buyer's Guide to Comics Fandom, Rocket's Blast Comicollector
, Komix Illustrated, Super-Hero, and Masquerader.

In 1967, Green broke into the professional comics world, collaborating with

Eros Comics
.

Xal-Kor the Human Cat

Green's Xal-Kor the Human Cat is a classic

photojournalist Colin Chambers.[5]

Xal-Kor (who first appeared in 1964) was often voted the most popular fan creation in the fanzine

Star-Studded Comics. The character returned several times over the years, most recently in May 2002 in a collection from TwoMorrows Publishing. Green was working on a new series of Xal-Kor adventures when he died in August 2002.[3]

Holiday Out

Green collaborated for many years with writer Michael Vance, including for four years on the comic book strip Holiday Out, featuring the characters Plastic Mam and Rok. Holiday Out stories were collected in Holiday Out #1-3, from Renegade Press, as well as books like Comico Primer (Comico), and Mangazine (Antarctic Press); much of it was re-released in June 2002 from Blue Moon Comics.

REGCo

In the 1960s, Green founded the company REGCo, an acronym for his name, Richard Edward Green, which offered comic book artists and newspaper cartoonists ready-to-use layout art boards with borders and panels pre-drafted, delineated with non-repro blue ink. Green promoted this as a major time-saver for fellow artists, recognizing the time and tedium required for repeatedly laying out pages by hand. Although this was a practical idea, his business was only modestly successful, as many comic artists tend(ed) to be very particular about which type of art board they penciled and inked on.[citation needed]

Personal life and death

Green was also a musician, who as a young man appeared on

Ted Mack's The Original Amateur Hour. On the Ted Mack show, Green won the talent contests with his singing, guitar-playing, and comedy performances, and, for a short time, he became a local celebrity, which offered him an opportunity to perform professionally at various clubs around the Fort Wayne area.[3]

Green died of lung cancer in Fort Wayne, Indiana,[1] on August 5, 2002. He was survived by his wife, Janice.[citation needed]

Awards

Green won a 1966 Alley Award for Best Fan Comic Strip for "Xal-Kor."

Notes

  1. ^ a b Social Security Death Index.
  2. Lambiek Comiclopedia
    . Accessed Apr. 16, 2009.
  3. ^ a b c d "Grass Green Succumbs at 63", Comic Book Network Electronic Magazine. Reprinted in Vance, Michael. "Suspended Animation," SFReader.com (Aug. 15, 2002) Archived 2009-04-12 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed Apr. 16, 2009.
  4. ^ Rifas, Leonard. "Racial Imagery, Racism, Individualism, and Underground Comix," ImageTexT (2004). Accessed Apr. 14, 2009.
  5. ^ a b Light, Leslie. "Profiles in Black Cartooning: Richard Eugene “Grass” Green," Comic Book Legal Defense Fund website (February 19, 2016).

References

  • Obituary, The Comics Journal #247 (Oct. 2002)
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