Dave Sheridan was the underground cartoonist who is perhaps best-known for his character Dealer McDope. He was born and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area and by the early 1970s had arrived in San Francisco, California. There he collaborated with fellow midwesterner Fred Schrier on three issues of Mother's Oats Funnies and a one-shot title called The Balloon Vendor. These were all published by Rip Off Press, the pioneering underground comix publishers founded in San Francisco in 1969. City nickname: The Forest City Location in the state of Ohio Founded 1796 Incorporated 1836 County Cuyahoga County Mayor Jane Campbell ( Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 213. ...

In 1974 Dave began collaborating with Gilbert Shelton on Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers strips. These were offered through the Rip Off Comics Syndicate to alternate and college weeklies nationwide, and later collected into comix. His first issue of the Freak Brothers was Number 4, with a many-page story arc entitled "The Seventh Voyage of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers." Escaping the landlady and her demands for rent, the Hirsute Trio go to Mexico where they encounter far worse perils. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers is a series of underground comics originally created in 1968 by the U.S. artist Gilbert Shelton. ...

Dave continued to collaborate on the Freak Brothers comix series through issues 5, 6 and 7. The team was joined by Paul Mavrides in 1978 for issue 6. In 1981, a few months after his marriage, Dave fell ill. Early in 1982 he was diagnosed with cancer, and he died of a brain hemhorrage in March of 1982 - just a week before the birth of his daughter Dorothy. 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January-February January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British...