Fred Schrier

Fred Schrier is an artist, writer and animator, best known as partner to the underground comic book artist Dave Sheridan. Together, using the name Overland Vegetable Stagecoach, they worked on "Meef Comix", three issues of "Mother's Oats Funnies", "Skull Comics #1" (with Greg Irons, Jack Jackson and Rory Hayes), and "The Balloon Vendor", which were all published by underground comics pioneers San Francisco Comic Book Company and Rip Off Press.

He and Dave Sheridan were also featured in "Slow Death Funnies" (with J. Osborne and Gilbert Shelton), published by Last Gasp, and "Yellow Dog #19", published in 1971 by The Print Mint. Sheridan died of cancer at the age of 38 in 1982.

Schrier has also been an illustrator of children's books such as "Let's Jump!" by Donna Lugg Pape ("Wild Animals, Come Out!" - Read Alone Books), and Boy's Life Magazine ("Amazing Science Tricks" - April 2004), and has been the animator for the Cleveland Indians Stadium scoreboard, winning him a "thanks" credit in the 1994 motion picture Major League II [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110442/combined Internet Movie Database] ] .

References

* "The Underground Comix Family Album" by Malcolm Whyte (with photographs by Clay Geerdes and foreword by Will Eisner) Word Play Publications, 1998.

* "Notes from the Underground" by Jay Kinney (1986)