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He went on to contribute strips to suchalternative California institutions as THEBERKELEY BARB and satirical posters (notably asexy "Odalesque" with a reclining Daisy Duck)and comix such as YELLOW DOG for ThePrint Mint.

Joel Beck was an early and regular contributor tothe Kitchen Sink Press undergroundanthologies SNARF, BIZARRE SEX and DOPECOMIX and the Kitchen/Marvelexperiment COMIX BOOK, as well as the 1978one-shot BANZAI! co-created with KimDeitch and the late Roger Brand.

Block' (1912) and the infamous Tijuana Bibles from the 1930s and 1940s). 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. magazine in the'60s. Mr. Beck's protagonist, a child named Lenny, achieves fame and fortune by uttering "obscenities" such as "pee-pee thing", only to find his career in the dumps when the public becomes satiated with his naughtiness.

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. He also produced the solo comics MARCHINGMARVIN and THE PROFIT (1966).

Beckmade his first national mark as acontributor "Public Gallery" in HarveyKurtzman'sHELP!

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. Soon he dropped out of high school and never graduated. In the early 1960s, he drew studio cards for Box Cards. 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.

During that time he published three underground comic books, Lenny of Laredo, Marching Marvin, and The Profit. Martin's Griffin, New York, 1998).

From: Snarf (1973)

Artist Bio: Joel Beck
JOEL BECK (1944-1999).

When Joel Beck publishedthe Lenny Bruce-inspired comic LENNY OFLAREDO in 1965, he entered intohistory as thecreator of the second underground comic everpublished: Jack Jackson had preceded himwith GOD NOSE, but Beck beat RobertCrumb's seminal ZAP by a good twoyears.

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.
Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Use American EnglishTemplate:Use mdy datesTemplate:Infobox comics creatorJoel Beck (May 7, 1943 – September 14, 1999) was a San Francisco Bay Area artist and cartoonist. He lived for several months in Manhattan in 1962 before returning to the West Coast.
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. The San Francisco Chronicle commented:
In 1965, his first full-length comic book, Lenny of Laredo, was published.
Tributes
Kevin Fagan wrote Beck's obituary for the San Francisco Chronicle: Template:Blockquote
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Books by Joel Beck
Reclaiming the Canon: Essays on Philosophy Poetry and History
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Joel Beck's Comics and Stories
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Rohrbach-lès-Bitche (Canton de)
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Sarreguemines et ses environs
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Bitche (Pays de) 1900-1939 (French Edition)
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Rohrbach-lès-Bitche et son canton (Chroniques lorraines)
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Joel Beck's Comics and Stories
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Om Home Made Comix No 10 English Edition
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Banzai
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The profit
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Lenny of Laredo
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SURVIVAL & AVALANCHE COURSE NOTES THE HISTORY OF THE SIERRA HIGH ROUTE
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Spouts: The Whale Who Saved Christmas
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Yellow Dog Vol.

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Yellow Dog Vol. I, Issue #8
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Flying Rutabaga Comic Arts Journal, Spring 1979
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Yellow Dog Vol.

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Yellow Dog Vol. II, Issues 11 & 12
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Joel Beck

The Profit
Joel Beck was one of the earliest artists of American underground comix.

Comments From Contemporaries (St. In Richmond, California, while attending De Anza High School, he began a lifelong friendship with the cartoonist Roger Brand. The comic strip that gave him this historical importance is 'Lenny of Laredo' (1965), a satirical riches-to-rags story about a foul-mouthed comedian obviously modeled after cult humorist Lenny Bruce.
Among his graphic influences are Robert Crumb, Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta, Albert Hurter, Walt Kelly, Harvey Kurtzman and Ronald Searle.