Fred Schrier
Fred Schrier is an artist, writer, and animator, best known as partner to the underground comic book artist Dave Sheridan. Together, using the name "Overland Vegetable Stagecoach," they worked on Mother's Oats Comix, published by Rip Off Press from 1970 to 1976.
Schrier's work was also featured in Meef Comix and The Balloon Vendor, and the anti-Nixon comics pamphlets Silent Majority Comics and Uncle Sam Takes LSD. Schrier's solo appeared in Slow Death Funnies #1, published by Last Gasp, Skull Comics #1, and Yellow Dog #19, published in 1971 by The Print Mint.
Schrier served with the Peace Corps in Afghanistan in the mid-1970s and the focus of his work changed afterward.
Sheridan died of cancer at the age of 38 in 1982. An obituary by Schrier was published in the ACE periodical Changeling Times, illustrated with their artwork.
Schrier has also been an illustrator of children's books such as Let's Jump!, written by Donna Lugg Pape and published by Houghton Mifflin, "Amazing Science Tricks", and was the animator for the Cleveland Indians stadium scoreboard, winning him a "thanks" credit in the 1994 motion picture Major League II.
Solo titles
- Silent Majority Comics — photocopied minicomic
- Uncle Sam Takes LSD — photocopied minicomic
Overland Vegetable Stagecoach
- Mother's Oats Comix #1
- Mother's Oats Comix #2
- Mindwarp: An Anthology by Sheridan & Schrier
- Mother's Oats Comix #3
Other comix
- Slow Death Funnies #1 — with Sheridan, Jim Osborne, Gilbert Shelton, and others
- Skull Comics #1 — with Dave Sheridan, Greg Irons, Jack Jackson and Rory Hayes
- Hydrogen Bomb and Biochemical Warfare Funnies
- Yellow Dog #19
- The [Rip Off Review of Western Culture]
- The Balloon Vendor — with Sheridan
- Meef Comix #1
- Meef Comix #2
- Rip Off Comix #3
Children's books & stories
- Let's Jump! — part of the Read Alone Books series Wild Animals, Come Out!
- "Amazing Science Tricks"