Gilbert Shelton
(1940 -)
American Cartoonist
Creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, and Wonder Wart-Hog
Gilbert Shelton's talents surfaced early with his silly superhero spoof 'Wonder Warthog' which was published in a campus magazine in 1959 (Ranger).
Directly after graduating, Shelton moved to New York City and got a job editing automotive magazines where he would sneak his drawings into print.
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
In 1961, Shelton moved back to Texas to enroll in graduate school and get a student deferment from the draft. Two Wonder Wart-Hog stories appeared in Bacchanal, a short-lived college humor magazine, in the spring of 1962. He then became editor of The Texas Ranger and published more Wonder Wart-Hog stories.
Gilbert created his most famous strip in 1968:
'The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers' – with Phineas, Freewheelin' Franklin and Fat Freddy. He was later joined on this comic by Dave Sheridan, and after Sheridan's death Paul Mavrides worked on it as well.
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