John Peck, underground cartoonist known as The Mad Peck, dies at 82

The cartoonist John Peck, a.k.a. The Mad Peck, as rendered in 2022 by his fellow cartoonist Drew Friedman. (Credit: Drew Friedman, from "Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix," Fantagraphics, 2022)

John Peck, a cultural omnivore known as The Mad Peck whose dryly humorous style as an underground cartoonist, artist, critic, disc jockey and record collector was accompanied by an ornate eccentricity, died on March 15 in Providence, Rhode Island. He was 82.

The cause of his death, in a hospital, was a ruptured aneurysm in his aorta, said his sisters, Marie Peck and Lois Barber.

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