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He also produced the solo comics MARCHINGMARVIN and THE PROFIT (1966).
Beckmade his first national mark as acontributor "Public Gallery" in HarveyKurtzman'sHELP!
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. Soon he dropped out of high school and never graduated. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1998).
From: Snarf (1973)
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Death
Beck died on September 21, 1999, from complications from alcoholism in Point Richmond, California.
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. 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.
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.
Visiting UC Berkeley, he started submitting cartoons to the campus humor magazine, The Pelican, slipping them under the door to editors who believed he was a college student. magazine in the'60s. Block' (1912) and the infamous Tijuana Bibles from the 1930s and 1940s). During that time he published three underground comic books, Lenny of Laredo, Marching Marvin, and The Profit.
Biography
Early life
Born in Ross, California, Beck grew up in El Sobrante, California, as an ill and bedridden child, who battled a combination of tuberculosis and spinal meningitis. His comic book Lenny of Laredo, one of the earliest underground comic books of the 1960s, was the first underground comic book published on the West Coast.
Until his death in 1999, Joel Beck lived in obscurity in Point Richmond, California doing occasional advertising commissions and being looked after by friends.
Beck wrote a personal homage to Robert Crumb in Monte Beauchamp's book 'The Life and Times of R. Crumb. 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.]
Joel Beck
The Profit
Joel Beck was one of the earliest artists of American underground comix.
In the early 1960s, he drew studio cards for Box Cards. Together with Frank Stack ('New Adventures of Jezus', 1962) and Jaxon ('God Nose', 1964), Beck can even be considered the earliest genuine underground comix artist in history (not counting prototypical examples like Ernest Riebe's 'Mr. Two other books, Marching Marvin and The Profit, followed.
In Richmond, California, while attending De Anza High School, he began a lifelong friendship with the cartoonist Roger Brand.
In a detailed 1987 self-portrait, Beck depicted himself in an ecstatic state, high on the act of creation, as he labored at his drawing table late into the night, surrounded by his books, artwork, comics, Pepsi and dog.[3]
Fine art
An accomplished fine artist, Beck created many paintings in acrylics, oils and watercolors—artwork now sought by international collectors.