UG Comix Pioneer Hak Vogrin Profiled

The Newark Star Ledger checks in with Hak Vogrin on the occasion of his participation in a New York group show and finds a very engaged 84-year-old artist and activist living a fruitful if not ever quite contented life in one of those nice parts of New Jersey that rarely gets mentioned in stand-up comedy.

Vogrin was a contributor to Yellow Dog and The Realist (as an illustrator), and looks to have done at least one solo comic with Print Mint called The Captain. I'm not great with underground comix history, but I find Vogrin's age interesting. He's about 20 years older than Robert Crumb, and I wasn't aware of a lot of participation from older artists in that first wave of UG publishing. It also sort of looks like his cartoon art was more reminiscent of Herb Gardner cocktail napkin type art than other cartoonists of that period.

It looks like you can get a movie or two about Vogrin here. You can read a biography here and view some of his more recent work here.
 
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