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In January 1966, The Pelican reprinted much of his previous work and labeled him "Man of the Decade".[2] His cartoons also appeared in the Berkeley Barb, and he penned a number of handbills and posters for the Jabberwock coffeehouse on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.[1] In addition, he was a founding member and regular contributor to the underground anthology Yellow Dog, published from 1968 to 1973.

KitchenSink also collected his earliest work underthe title Joel Beck's Comics and Stories.

Though Beck was prolificearly in his career, his output droppedprecipitously in the last two decades of his life,due in large part to illness and chronichomelessness. Two other books, Marching Marvin and The Profit, followed.

Tributes

Kevin Fagan wrote Beck's obituary for the San Francisco Chronicle: Template:Blockquote

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Block' (1912) and the infamous Tijuana Bibles from the 1930s and 1940s). Kitchen Sink Press reprinted those stories in 1977 under the title 'Joel Beck's Comics & Stories'.

Death

Beck died on September 21, 1999, from complications from alcoholism in Point Richmond, California. In the early 1960s Joel Beck had a nine-to-five job working for Roth Greeting Cards.

Other comics of Joel Beck are 'Marching Marvin' (1966) and 'The Profit' (1966). He also produced the solo comics MARCHINGMARVIN and THE PROFIT (1966).

Beckmade his first national mark as acontributor "Public Gallery" in HarveyKurtzman'sHELP!

Comments From Contemporaries (St. All are collector's items today.[1]

In 1965, humor magazine editors voted to choose the nation's top college cartoonist and gave the honor to Beck.

Underground comix

In the early 1960s, Beck moved into a converted closet in a housing unit near the campus of U.C.

Berkeley, known as Haste House, and he continued to do cartoons for The Pelican. He lived for several months in Manhattan in 1962 before returning to the West Coast. Later in his abbreviated life heproduced mainly commissioned drawings and paintingsfor a small circle of friends and connoisseurs.

[Obituary taken in part from fromthe 2000 Harvey Awards ceremony.]


Books by Joel Beck

Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy Poetry and History
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Joel Beck's Comics and Stories
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Rohrbach-lès-Bitche (Canton de)
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Sarreguemines et ses environs
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Bitche (Pays de) 1900-1939 (French Edition)
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Rohrbach-lès-Bitche et son canton (Chroniques lorraines)
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Joel Beck's Comics and Stories
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Om Home Made Comix No 10 English Edition
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Banzai
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The profit
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Lenny of Laredo
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SURVIVAL & AVALANCHE COURSE NOTES THE HISTORY OF THE SIERRA HIGH ROUTE
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Spouts: The Whale Who Saved Christmas
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Yellow Dog Vol.

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Yellow Dog Vol. I, Issue #8
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Flying Rutabaga Comic Arts Journal, Spring 1979
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Yellow Dog Vol.

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Yellow Dog Vol. II, Issues 11 & 12
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Joel Beck


The Profit

Joel Beck was one of the earliest artists of American underground comix.

Soon he dropped out of high school and never graduated. It was a satire loosely based on the career of embattled comedian Lenny Bruce. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1998).


From: Snarf (1973)

Artwork © 1999 Joel Beck

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Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Use American EnglishTemplate:Use mdy datesTemplate:Infobox comics creatorJoel Beck (May 7, 1943 – September 14, 1999) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist and cartoonist.

joel beck författare

magazine in the'60s. In Richmond, California, while attending De Anza High School, he began a lifelong friendship with the cartoonist Roger Brand. Mr. Beck's protagonist, a child named Lenny, achieves fame and fortune by uttering "obscenities" such as "pee-pee thing", only to find his career in the dumps when the public becomes satiated with his naughtiness.

Kinney made a graphic contribution to 'ProJunior’ (Kitchen Sink Press, 1971), a one-shot comic book paying homage to Don Dohler's character ProJunior. Beck's work appeard in several underground comix magazines (Snarf, Comix Book and others) until the late 1970s, when his work disappeared from the scene.