Dennis Worden
Dennis Worden is an American comic book writer and artist best known as the creator of the comic book Stickboy. Worden's alternative comics caught the public's attention in the early 1980s, via Robert Crumb's Weirdo comics anthology, for which he was a frequent contributor throughout the magazine's run. During that same period, Worden was a regular contributor to the comics anthology Rip Off Comix.
Dennis Worden
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Nationality
- American
- Occupation
- cartoonist · comics artist
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Dennis Worden is an American comic book writer and artist best known as the creator of the comic book Stickboy. Worden's alternative comics caught the public's attention in the early 1980s, via Robert Crumb's Weirdo comics anthology, for which he was a frequent contributor throughout the magazine's run. During that same period, Worden was a regular contributor to the comics anthology Rip Off Comix.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Dennis Worden. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q16887110 · wikipedia · Dennis Worden
In this article
Biography
Biography
Worden has the distinction of being the only male cartoonist to ever contribute to the all-female underground comix anthology Tits & Clits Comix. He created the comic book Stickboy, detailing the existential adventures of a stick figure. There were eight issues, published, successively by Fantagraphics (issues #1–3, 1988–1990), Revolutionary Comics (issues #4–5, 1990–1992), Starhead Comix (issues #6–7, 1993–1995), and Carnal Comics (issue #8, 2005). Other comic books by Worden include Slur (self-published, 1982), Bongo Dick (self-published, 1986), Suburban Teens On Acid (self-published, 1986), Pedestrian Vulgarity (Fantagraphics, 1990), and Acidboy (Starhead Comix, 1996). He also did the character The Floating Skull, who appears in Heavy Metal Monsters (Revolutionary Comics, 1992), one story of which the Floating Skull appears on the David Letterman show. In 1993, Worden shot a Stickboy music video with two songs by the English punk bank Rancid Hell Spawn. Worden appears in 2005 documentary film Unauthorized and Proud Of It — a.k.a. The Story of Rock 'N' Roll Comics — alongside Alice Cooper, Mojo Nixon, Gene Simmons, painter Robert Williams, publishers Denis Kitchen and Gary Groth, cartoonists Mary Fleener, Cynthia Plaster Caster, and others. The film, featuring a soundtrack by Elvis Costello (among others), was released on DVD in 2012.
Key facts
Key facts
• Birthplace — Los Angeles, California, United States • Nationality — American • Cartoonist — y • Publish — y • Notable Works — Stickboy
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Dennis Worden was born at Los Angeles.
Birthplace
Los Angeles.
Birth place
Holdings and surviving copies
Where the work is held
Holdings and surviving copies
Where material relating to Dennis Worden is held.
Documents and archives
Primary material
Documents and archives
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q16887110: Dennis Worden
General reference · Wikidata
reference work
- “Dennis Worden”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Stickboy. Comicvine.
- 2.Blarg, Janelle. Punk Comic History, Pt. 3: Dennis Worden. maximumrocknroll.com. January 14, 2011.
- 3."Meat Market Year 2050," Tits & Clits #7 (Last Gasp, Nov. 1987).
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
authority record
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 16 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Comics and comic art
9,920 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Dennis DetwillerArtist
- Dennis O'NeilArtist
- Dennis the MenaceSeries
- Dennis the Menace and GnasherSeries
- Dennō Shōjo MinkSeries
- Densha OtokoSeries
- Denys CowanArtist
- DeogratiasSeries
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Dennis Worden?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.