TJ 287 - Rick Parker Interview - Marvel G.I. Joe Letterer on G.I. Joe; plus Beavis & Butthead, Drafted and more
Mark and Tim are talking with artist, letter and comics legend Rick Parker.
https://youtu.be/iNXo6uqNy3w
Richard Lowell Parker was born in 1946 and 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, various comic books published by Marvel Comics as well as Fine Art. In 1966 Parker was drafted into the United States Army, but got his start in the comics industry as a letterer for Marvel Comics in the late 1970s
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, his graphic novel memoir Drafted is out now and he is working on the sequel “The Artiste”.
But of all his accomplishments, possibly the high point must surely be as the creator who worked on most issues of the Marvel GI Joe comics run outsid eof writer Larry Hama, as the letterer # 11-38 (alternating with Joe Rosen) and then issues, 71-141.
“Rick Parker, I’m Afraid” https://sambrosnan.com/rickparker
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rick.parker.artist
Writing https://autobiographyofaformerzygote.com
Article on Rick's art https://artiholics.com/if-i-had-a-million-dollars-artist-rick-parkers-lifes-work-is-for-sale-to-the-right-collector/
