Fred Schrier


Fred Schrier is an artist, writer, and animator, best known as partner to the underground comic book artist Dave Sheridan. Together, using the name "Overland Vegetable Stagecoach," they worked on Mother's Oats Funnies, published by Rip Off Press from 1970–1976.
Schrier's work was also featured in Meef Comix and The Balloon Vendor, and the anti-Nixon comics pamphlets Silent Majority Comics and Uncle Sam Takes LSD. Schrier's solo appeared in Slow Death Funnies #1, published by Last Gasp, Skull Comics #1, and Yellow Dog #19, published in 1971 by The Print Mint.
Schrier served with the Peace Corps in Afghanistan in the mid-1970s and the focus of his work changed afterward.
Sheridan died of cancer at the age of 38 in 1982. An obituary by Schrier was published in the ACE periodical Changeling Times, decorated with their artwork.
Schrier has also been an illustrator of children's books such as Let's Jump!, written by Donna Lugg Pape and published by Houghton Mifflin, "Amazing Science Tricks", and has been the animator for the Cleveland Indians stadium scoreboard,. winning him a "thanks" credit in the 1994 motion picture Major League II.

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