Achievements He is also the founder and editor of the publication Comic Art (2002-2007) and a curator of gallery exhibits of comic book and contemporary art, including the traveling retrospective R. Crumb"s Underground (organized by The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts). Speak: Nine Cartoonists. Art Chantry: Pearls are a Nuisance. And Lucas Samaras: Fabric Reconstruction Paintings, among others