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Frank Huntington Stack was born on October 31, 1937, and earned a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1959, followed by an M.A. at the University of Wyoming and further studies in Chicago and Paris. After serving in the U.S. Army, he began a career in art and academia. While a student he edited The Texas Ranger humor magazine and, under the pen name Foolbert Sturgeon, produced “The Adventures of Jesus,” which is regarded as one of the first underground comics, debuting in 1964. Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s he published a series of comic titles with Rip Off Press and contributed to anthologies and The Comics Journal, influencing the underground comix movement. Stack was also celebrated for his printmaking, especially etchings and lithographs, and his oil paintings and watercolors of landscapes and figures. He taught art at the University of Missouri from 1963 until his retirement in 2001, later becoming professor emeritus, and also taught at Appalachian State and Virginia Tech. His later collaborations included work on Harvey Pekar’s “American Splendor” and illustrating the graphic nonfiction “Our Cancer Year.” Frank Stack died on April 12, 2026, at the age of 88, leaving a legacy as a pioneering cartoonist and respected educator in American art.