David Geiser (June 28, 1947 – October 14, 2020) was an Americanpainter and creator of severalunderground comix.
David Geiser was an abstract expressionist painter, born inRochester, New York in 1947. He studied at the University of Vermont and theArt Students League. In 1969, he postponed starting inYale University, moving instead to San Francisco and began drawingunderground comix, while befriending other underground comic creators such asS. Clay Wilson andSan Francisco Comic Book Company founder Grey Arlington and immersed himself in illustrations.[1] Geiser created several underground comic titles in the early 1970s, including Saloon, Demented Pervert, Clowns, Uncle Sham, DTs, Pain, Sloppy Seconds, and Edge City. The number of issues produced ranged from 1,000 to about 10,000.
Geiser left San Francisco in 1976 and spent two years in Paris, where he studied at theEcole des Beaux-Arts. He returned to the United States in 1979, settling inSoHo, New York in the early 1980s. At that point, Geiser began concentrating on oil painting and moving intoabstract expressionism. His canvases are tactile and deep, often being composed of many layers of shellac, pitch, tar, rope and scrap wood.
Geiser was married to actressMercedes Ruehl. In 2001 they moved to East Hampton where they lived with their son, Jake. A son from a previous marriage, Cameron Geiser, lives inMontara, California.[2] They put their Hampton house on the market in 2017; the same year Ruehl was quoted as saying that they were no longer together, but remained close.[3][better source needed][4]
David Geiser died unexpectedly of heart disease in his sleep at home on October 14, 2020, at the age of 73.
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