RICK GEARY was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Wichita,
Kansas. He graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where his first
cartoons were published in the University Daily Kansan.
He worked as staff artist for two weekly papers in Wichita before moving to San
Diego in 1975.
He began work in comics in 1977 and was for thirteen years a contributor to the
Funny Pages of National Lampoon. His comic stories have also been published in
Heavy Metal, Dark Horse Comics and the DC Comics/Paradox Press Big Books. His
early comic work has been collected in Housebound with Rick Geary from
Fantagraphics Books.
During a four-year stay in New York, his illustrations appeared regularly in The
New York Times Book Review. His illustration work has also been seen in MAD,
Spy, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Old Farmer’s Almanac, and
American Libraries.
He has written and illustrated three children’s books based on The Mask for Dark
Horse and two Spider-Man children's books for Marvel. His children’s comic
“Society of Horrors” ran in Disney Adventures magazine. He was the artist for
the new series of GUMBY Comics, written by Bob Burden, for which they received
the 2007 Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Publication for a Younger
Audience.
His graphic novels include three adaptations for the Classics Illustrated, and
the nine-volume series A Treasury of Victorian Murder for NBM Publishing. The
new series A Treasury of 20th Century Murder began in 2008 with “The Lindbergh
Child.” His other historically-based graphic novels include Cravan, written
with Mike Richardson, and J. Edgar Hoover: A Graphic Biography.
Rick has received the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic Convention (1980)
and the Book and Magazine Illustration Award from the National Cartoonists
Society (1994).
He and his wife Deborah can be found every year at their table at San Diego’s
Comic Con International. In 2007, they moved to the town of Carrizozo, New
Mexico.
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