Rick Parker

Rick Parker is coming to Garden State Comic Fest June 27-28th at the Codey Arena in West Orange NJ! Rick is an award winning artist/writer whose memoir graphic novel, DRAFTED, was released from Abrams ComicArts in 2024. It is about his military service during the Vietnam War, the first in a series about his life and work. Rick’s comics career started at Marvel in 1976 where he hand-lettered 30,000+ pages; created/wrote/drew The Bossmen cartoon strip in Marvel Age; wrote/drew the Bullpen Bullseye cartoon; and drew all 28 issues of MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head comic book. Rick has illustrated graphic novels for Papercutz, web comics for Harvey Pekar, and the graphic novel proposal, The Road to Hell. by Dwayne McDuffie and Matt Wayne. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1972 with a BFA in Drawing and Painting, and from Pratt Institute with an MFA in Printmaking in 1975. Rick is married to writer, Lisa Trusiani, and they live and work in Falmouth, Maine.