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Jim Osborne

Jim Osborne (1943 - 2001) was active/lived in Texas, California.  Jim Osborne is known for Underground comics, illustration.

Underground comic artist Jim Osborne moved from San Antonio, Texas to San Francisco in 1967, at the dawn of the underground comix era.  His first work, 'Okay, Mister K' was published in Yellow Dog #5 in 1968, followed by many more stories over the next few years in underground publications like Bijou, All Stars, Illuminations, Insect Fear, Promethean Enterprises, Slow Death, and Felch Cumics.

During his brief comics career from 1968 to the mid-1970s, Jim Osborne's work was inspired by his fascination with crime and the occult and his meticulous attention to gruesome detail. 

Although most of Jim Osborne's work is long out of print, D.O.A. Comics, published by Keith Green in 1976, collected many of his stories from earlier comic books.  The comics anthology, "The Best of Bijou / Apex Treasury of Underground Comics," features some of his stories.

The 58-year-old cartoonist died in a San Francisco boarding house on 24   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1241 characters.]  Artist bio

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