Career
Mavrides came to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975, and was soon working with SF-based comics creator Jay Kinney on a weekly panel cartoon for the Rip Off Press, titled "Cover-Up Lowdown." This strip satirized political coverups of the day as well as those of recent history such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Mavrides was the co-creator and illustrator of the underground comic book The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers with Gilbert Shelton. He is a founding member of the Church of the SubGenius, having been a member of the organization since its earliest days. He is a co-author of Revelation X : The 'Bob'Apocryphon: Hidden Teachings and Deuterocanonical Texts of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. Mavrides was also credited as art director for Grass, a 1999 documentary on marijuana.
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