Although mainly into making movies, George Kuchar has also done some notable underground comix work. Born in Manhattan, Kuchar was trained as a commercial artist and upon graduation drew weather maps for a local news show. He teamed up with his twin brother Mike and created several 8mm movies, that were showed in the underground scene alongside films by Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger and Stan Brakhage. After leaving his commercial art job, George Kuchar went into teaching in the film department of the San Francisco Art Institute. He became involved in underground comix through his neighbor, Art Spiegelman. He drew for the comics revue Arcade in the 1970s, for which he created among others his comics biography of HP Lovecraft.
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