Joe Schenkman

Joe Schenkman

Joe Schenkman is an erstwhile American underground cartoonist. Schenkman was part of underground cartooning's original wave, active in the late '60s as a regular contributor to Rat Subterranean News, Gothic Blimp Works, the East Village Other (EVO), in New York City. In San Francisco in the early 70s, he worked alongside such cartoonists as S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, Justin Green, Bill Griffith, and Art Spiegelman. With the latter three, he collaborated on Arcade: The Comics Revue. In the 1980s, his cartoons appeared regularly in the National Lampoon, where he was a contributing editor and collaborated with P.J. O'Rourke on satirical features.

Schenkman is currently head of Schenkman Books, a company founded by Alfred Schenkman in the 1950s, known for sociology and social welfare titles, and plays in the Skanktone Jug Band.

External links

* [http://www.schenkmanbooks.com/ The Schenkman Books web site]


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