Ben Adams
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Ben Adams was born in Minnesota in 1965. As for many American comic book artists, Adams started by reading super hero comics. He later switched his attention to the underground comix movement. At this point, Adams became acquainted with Marty Pahls, a good friend of both comix legend Robert Crumb and American Splendor's Harvey Pekar.

While he was studying maths and physics at Saint Olaf College, Adams took classes in literature and philosophy where he met Ward Sutton (Sutton is active on the comix scene in Minneapolis and Seattle and has also drawn a cartoon for the Village Voice).

After starting the Applied Mathematics Program at the University of Washington in Seattle, Adams was distracted by life in Seattle and jumped into political activism and fundraising. However, he was slowly going back to his first love: comics.

Some of Adams' stories have received significant praise within the comics industry. He is mostly known for the Prisonopolis mini-series he wrote and published under the Mediawarp Comics imprint in 1997, for Joe Zabel's 1998 Murder by Crowquill anthology, or for his frequent postings in years past on Rick Veitch's online comic book convention site comicon.com. Prisonopolis was a satirical science fiction epic about rising prison populations, race, gender, dysfunctional families, and an out-of-control media. After publishing four issues of Prisonopolis, Joe Zabel (who is best known as a frequent artist on Harvey Pekar's acclaimed American Splendor) offered to publish a story by Adams and artist John Polacek in the print anthology Murder by Crowquill. Adams' recent projects include a webcomic story called Misfist's Journey he was written and illustrated.