George Kuchar and his twin brother, Mike, were born in Manhattan in 1942. George was trained as a commercial artist in a vocational high school and upon graduation drew weather maps for a local news show. All during this dark period he and his brother were making 8mm movies which were showcased in the then-burgeoning underground scene alongside films by Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger and Stan Brakhage. When laid off from the commercial art job he never returned to what he calls “that nightmare world.” Kuchar was offered a teaching job in the film department of the San Francisco Art Institute, where he has taught since the early 1970s. It was in San Francisco that he became involved with underground comics via his neighbor, Art Spiegelman, and Bill Griffith. They both wound up in his movies and George wound up in their publications. His comics biography of HPL was first printed in Arcade #3 in 1975, where it garnered a flood of complaints from offended Lovecraft loyalists.