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Rick Parker (b.1946) is an American artist, writer, cartoonist and educator whose humorous artwork and quirky drawings have been seen in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, Life Magazine and a variety of magazines and newspapers as well as in millions of Marvel Comic books worldwide. Rick Parker is widely known as the artist of MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head Comic Book, published by Marvel Comics 1994-1996. Rick Parker drew the Introductory Pages of Tales From The Crypt, a.k.a., The Ghouluntaic Sequences (2007-2009) featuring the Crypt Keeper, The Vault Keeper and The Old Witch for Papercutz Publishing, NYC. Rick Parker was one of the four original artists of The Pekar Project (2009-2010) which brought the writing of the American autobiographical comics pioneer, Harvey Pekar, to the web. Rick Parker wrote and illustrated his own graphic novel, "Deadboy" in 2010. Rick Parker was the illustrator of a series of graphic novel parodies (written by Stefan Petrucha) for Papercutz Slices (Papercutz Publishing) called, "Diary of a Stinky Dead Kid (2009)", "Harry Potty and The Deathly Boring (2010)", "Breaking Down (2011)" (a parody of the Twilight Series), "Percy Jerkson and The Ovolactovegetarians (2011)" and "The Hunger Pains (2012)". Rick Parker is the illustrator of "Everything I Really Need To Know I Learned from Television" (1992) written by Barry Dutter and published by Applause Theatre Books, NYC. Rick Parker, a.k.a., Richard Parker's fine art consists of paintings, drawings, collage, assembledges, sculpture, lithographs, photographs, performance and conceptual art. He was the founder of The Barking Dog Museum in NYC (1975-1987). His artwork has been shown at The Hundred Acres Gallery in NYC, NYU University Art Gallery, The Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, Georgia), Pratt Institute Art Galley and Franklin Furnace Book Archives(NYC), The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art and DUMBO Arts Center (NYC). Richard Parker's comic art and fine art is mainly in private collections.