Julian Schnabel

A satirical creature of the Bronze Age art world, Julian Schnabel leapt off the pages of National Lampoon Magazine in 1983, conjured by writer Kevin Curran and artist Frank Springer with what can only be imagined as gleeful irreverence. Appearing across titles like Articulate and Art in Shambles, this character clearly inhabited a comics universe with one eye trained on the pretensions of the contemporary art scene. With just four catalog appearances stretched across fifteen years under the Quiet Revolution banner, Julian Schnabel is a rare, niche find — the kind of oddity that makes flipping through back-issue bins genuinely rewarding for collectors who love comics that push into unexpected cultural territory.