Frank H. Stack

House Next Door, 1977
Etching, 19" x 16"

Frank H. Stack was born in Houston, Texas in 1937. Stack received a B.F.A. from the University of Texas in Austin and an M.F.A. from University of Wyoming. While in college, Stack was the editor of the Texas Ranger student humor magazine. While working in the bible belt for many years, Stack used an alias, Foolbert Sturgeon, to avoid persecution for his cartoons. He wrote an underground comicbook, “The Adventures of Jesus” after graduating from University of Texas, and held a professorship at the University of Missouri for forty years before retiring in 2003.

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