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He studied the work of such book illustrators as Fritz Eichenberg and Lynd Ward. After graduating from high school in 1957, he attended a two-year junior college, worked in forestry for two years and then returned to college.
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George Metzger
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He was an underground comics artist during the mid-1960s and early 1970s in California, eventually relocating to Canada, where he worked in animation. Born in rural Illinois, Metzger moved with his family to northern California when he was six years old. As a youth, he collected comic strips and read such authors as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert East. Howard and Herbert Asbury.
His later work was influenced by his interest in Maxfield Parrish, Hannes Bok, European Commission Comics and various science fiction illustrators.
In the early 1960s, he contributed to fanzines and an underground newspaper, followed by a period in the National Guard. Later, he lived in Santa Cruz, California and moved to San Jose, California, where he resided for many years near the San Jose State University campus.
In the mid-to-late 1960s, he worked at Santa Clara"s Hambley Studios, where he was a production serigraph printer for fine art print production of such artists as Corita Kent. His best known creation is, a science-fantasy series notable for its sophisticated art and elaborate imaginative framework.
Published by the Print Mint, it ran from 1969 until 1973.
lieutenant has no connection with the character in the comic strip Monty. His story "Routine" was published in Graphic Story Magazine #16. The cover of Metzger"s comic book Truckin" (Print Mint, 1972) includes a self-portrait in the truck"s mirror.
In 1978, Kitchen Sink Press published Metzger"s Mu, the Land that Never Was.
Metzger later worked for several animation studios in Vancouver, including Marv Newland"s International Rocketship Limited.
