In 2007, they moved to the town of Carrizozo, New Mexico. He and his wife Deborah can be found every year at their table at San Diego’s Comic Con International. Rick has received the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic Convention (1980) and the Book and Magazine Illustration Award from the National Cartoonists Society (1994). The new series A Treasury of 20th Century Murder began in 2008 with “The Lindbergh Child.” His other historically-based graphic novels include Cravan, written with Mike Richardson, and J. His graphic novels include three adaptations for the Classics Illustrated, and the nine-volume series A Treasury of Victorian Murder for NBM Publishing. He was the artist for the new series of GUMBY Comics, written by Bob Burden, for which they received the 2007 Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Publication for a Younger Audience.

His children’s comic “Society of Horrors” ran in Disney Adventures magazine. He has written and illustrated three children’s books based on The Mask for Dark Horse and two Spider-Man children's books for Marvel. His illustration work has also been seen in MAD, Spy, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Old Farmer’s Almanac, and American Libraries. His early comic work has been collected in Housebound with Rick Geary from Fantagraphics Books.ĭuring a four-year stay in New York, his illustrations appeared regularly in The New York Times Book Review. His comic stories have also been published in Heavy Metal, Dark Horse Comics and the DC Comics/Paradox Press Big Books. He began work in comics in 1977 and was for thirteen years a contributor to the Funny Pages of National Lampoon. He worked as staff artist for two weekly papers in Wichita before moving to San Diego in 1975. He graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, where his first cartoons were published in the University Daily Kansan. RICK GEARY was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Wichita,

The Borden Tragedy by Rick Geary