Chuck Sperry is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on February 5, 1962 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. While at MU, Sperry was inspired by the dean at the art the school Frank Stack, whose work prefigured the underground comics in the 1960s. In the mid 50s Stack as well as cartoonist Gilbert Shelton had been the editors of The Texas Ranger humor magazine at the University of Texas at Austin. In the following years, while serving working in the Army Reserve, Stack created comics that were satirical during his free time, later collecting the best strips together into The Adventures of Jesus, widely regarded as America’s very first underground comic.
In this time, Sperry attended art classes at the Living Arts Center in Dayton as well as the Dayton Art Institute. In the year 1980, Sperry enrolled at the University of Missouri in Columbia and was an art major with a double major and journalism. In the four years he was during his time at MU, Sperry was an editorial cartoonist for the school’s publication, The Man Eater. In addition, he created illustrations for The Columbia Daily Tribune. Columbia Daily Tribune.
In 1985, Sperry moved to the East Village in New York City, where he co-edited World War 3 Illustrated with Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper. World War 3 Illustrated included work by Eric Drooker, James Romberger, Anton Van Dalen, David Wojnarowicz, Sue Coe, Art Spiegelman, and Michael Roman.
In 1989, Sperry moved to San Francisco, where he eventually art directed and co-edited Weekly Weird News & Filth with publisher Robert Collison; the newspaper had a circulation of 10,000 issues around the San Francisco Bay Area, and ran from 1991–1996. Sperry commissioned magazine covers and art from Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson, Paul Mavrides, Hal Robbins, Rigo23, Mats Stromberg, Gary Grimshaw, and many others.
In the is the year that Sperry, Grimshaw, together with his wife Laura made their first two-year “Temporary Insanity” art shows at Off the Wall, a gallery located on Haight Street in San Francisco it was the first show at a gallery of rock-poster art in San Francisco of rock-poster art since the Joint Show at the Moore Gallery in 1967. Artists who were in the show include Victor Moscoso, Frank Kozik, Coop, Gary Grimshaw, John Seabury, Psychic Sparkplug, Mark Arminski, Lindsey Kuhn, Emek, Mats Stromberg as well as Dennis Loren.
