Doofus

Rick Altergott's Doofus is a gleefully lowbrow underground comics character whose self-titled Fantagraphics series debuted in 1994, also appearing in alt-comics anthologies like Hate and Love and Rockets, embodying crude humor in the alternative comics tradition.

Rick Altergott's Doofus burst onto the Fantagraphics underground scene in 1994, a gleefully lowbrow creation perfectly at home in the alt-comics renaissance of the Copper/Modern Age. Sharing pages with the likes of Buddy Bradley and the Love and Rockets crowd, Doofus ran in some of the most celebrated independent titles of the era — Hate, Love and Rockets, and his own self-titled series — putting him squarely in the company of alternative comics royalty. It's a small but wonderfully curated footprint that speaks to the tight-knit, fiercely creative world Fantagraphics was nurturing through the nineties, and any fan of that irreverent, hand-crafted spirit will find Doofus a genuinely charming artifact of the moment.