When I read that, I almost immediately thought of Carel Moiseiwitsch. Real Stuff tends to draw its artists from numerous people who have worked with Fantagraphics, which includes some of the more out-there underground artists of the sort who got exposure through R. Crumb’s Weirdo in the eighties. (Harvey Pekar also drew from this pool for many of his American Splendor chapters.) Some of the artists are definitely an acquired taste, and others, like Moiseiwitsch, are more or less unacquirable, but they’re at least a switch from traditional bland superhero-style cartoonists. (Ironically, the much-loathed Rob Liefeld exaggerates his figures to such a grotesque degree that he could have been one such underground cartoonist if he hadn’t been hired by Marvel.)
