He works as a filing clerk, and his experiences have long been the subject of a comic strip, illustrated by among others Robert Crumb.

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Born in 1963, the artist explores society through drawings of a fictional town called Nobson Newton, which depict a dysfunctional and dystopian landscape that has been compared to the legendary William Hogarth and US cartoonist Robert Crumb.

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How fascinating it is to chart the thematic development and coming-of-age of an artist, weaned on MAD Magazine, who began his career as part of the San Francisco comic-book counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, which included talented draftsmen like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton.

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