Bick Backman

Chester Brown's Yummy Fur was one of the most daring and singular comics of the late 1980s underground, and Bick Backman is a piece of that strange, unforgettable world — debuting in 1988 from Vortex in the pages of the series that made Brown a cult legend. Sharing those densely weird pages with the likes of Ed the Happy Clown and a cast including Priscilla, Becky, and Kari Backman, Bick inhabits the surreal domestic and social landscape that Brown conjured during the Copper Age's most adventurous alt-comics moment. His appearances are few, but in Yummy Fur, even a small role places a character at the center of some of the most genuinely strange and artistically ambitious comics of his era. For collectors and readers who prize the bold, boundary-pushing work that defined alternative comics in the late '80s, Bick Backman is a name worth knowing.