Greg Budgett


Greg Budgett is a Cleveland, Ohio-based comic book artist known particularly for his work illustrating the comics of Harvey Pekar. Most of Budgett's work on Pekar's American Splendor and other comics has been in partnership with Gary Dumm, who has inked most of Budgett's stories.
Budgett attended Ohio University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Pekar and Budgett began working together in 1974; before American Splendor, Budgett illustrated a couple of short Pekar stories in the underground comix anthologies Bizarre Sex and Flaming Baloney X.
From 1976 until 1988, Budgett illustrated stories in Pekar's autobiographical comics series, American Splendor. Budgett was one of Pekar's most frequent early collaborators; most of his stories were inked by Dumm. Budgett drew a number of American Splendor covers as well, including issues #2, 3, 7, 8, 11, and 13.
During the 1980s, Budgett and Dumm worked on stories in Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories, an underground/alternative comics series published by Clifford Neal, as well as a number of other alternative and independent comic book series. In the early 1990s, Budgett and Dumm co-wrote and drew stories for Eternity Comics' Plan 9 from Outer Space: Thirty Years Later and their own erotic series Shooty Beagle and Woofers & Hooters.
By the early 1990s, Budgett had "de-emphasized cartooning" and didn't work in the industry again until 2004, when he illustrated another Pekar story in the 2004 collection American Splendor: Our Movie Year. He was a regular contributor to Vertigo's two American Splendor limited series in 2006–2008.

''[American Splendor]''

all stories by Harvey PekarAmerican Splendor #1 :
  • * "101 Ways to Pick Up Girls"
  • * "How I Spent My Summer Vacation: 1972"
  • * "The Rank"
  • * "Love Story"
  • * "A Mexican Tale"
  • * "You fuckers can leave if you wanna..."American Splendor #2 :
  • * Front and back covers
  • * "Guerilla Theatre: July ’74 — on the Corne"
  • * "On the Corner… A Sequel, June, 1976"
  • * "Vignettes #1 & #2"American Splendor #3 :
  • * Front cover
  • * "Awaking to the Terror of the New Day"
  • * "Awaking to the Terror of the Same Old Day"
  • * "Short Weekend: A Story About the Cosmic and the Ordinary"
  • * "Traditional Male Chauvinism"
  • * "Vignettes 3 thru 6"American Splendor #5 :
  • * "Coventry Night, Summer, 1976"
  • * "Scenes from Star Books"
  • * "Emil"
  • * "Mrs. Roosevelt and the Young Queen of Greece" American Splendor #6 :
  • * "Cyclical Theory "
  • * "Read This"
  • * "Ripoff Chick"American Splendor #7 :
  • * Front cover
  • * "The Day Before the Be-In"American Splendor #8 :
  • * Front cover
  • * "In the Parking Lot"American Splendor #11 :
  • * Back cover
  • * "Old Guys"
  • "Ethnic Bakery — Sunday Morning," American Splendor #12
  • Back cover, American Splendor #13
  • "Passport to Pimlico," American Splendor #14
  • "Fish Story," American Splendor: Our Movie Year
  • "Northwest Airlines Goes Socialist," American Splendor vol. 1, #1
  • "Regionalism," American Splendor vol. 1, #3
  • "Grocery Shopping," American Splendor vol. 1, #4
  • "Town Meeting," American Splendor vol. 2, #2
  • "Chapter Three: The Car,", American Splendor vol. 2, #4

Stories elsewhere

  • "The Kinsman Cowboys: How'd Ya Get Inta This Bizness Ennyway?," story by Harvey Pekar, inks by Gary Dumm, in Bizarre Sex #4
  • "A Mexican Tale," story by Harvey Pekar, inks by Munan, Flaming Baloney X
  • "The Puzzle," co-written, penciled and inked with Gary Dumm, Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories #5/6
  • "Cheese for Cakes Sake", co-written, penciled and inked with Gary Dumm, Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories #7/8
  • "Shooty Beagle Goes to the Mall," co-written, penciled and inked with Gary Dumm, Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories #7/8
  • "The Compleat Videots", co-written, penciled and inked with Gary Dumm, Dr. Wirtham's Comix & Stories #9/10
  • "The Twilight Avenger Gallery," Twilight Avenger #3 Plan 9 from Outer Space: Thirty Years Later #1–3 Shooty Beagle #1-3, with Joe Zabel and Gary Dumm
  • ''Woofers & Hooters''