Rick wrote and illustrated two early graphic novels for Epic editor Archie Goodwin: Abraxas & The Earthman and Heartburst, before launching a six-issue series, The One, for Epic Comics in 1984.
He contributed regularly to Marvels Epic Magazine, and published his first collaboration with Alan Moore there in its final issue. Rick’s work appeared in Heavy Metal, which lead to his collaboration with Steve Bissette and Allen Asherman on the graphic novel adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s 1941. Together they formed Flying Dutchmasters Studios and began getting published in New York. He also met and began lifelong collaborations with fellow artists Steve Bissette, John Totleben, Tom Yeates and Tim Truman.
While still at school he began his professional career in mainstream comics, contributing over a dozen short stories to DC’s Our Army At War. In 1976 Rick enrolled in the Joe Kubert School and was part of the school’s first graduating class in 1978. Crashing at Greg Iron’s barn on the California Coast, he began drawing a sample sequence about two axe murderers in a rainstorm, which grew, with a script by his brother Tom Veitch, into a complete comic book, published as Two-Fisted Zombies by Last Gasp in 1973.
At the age of nineteen, Rick Veitch drove a Pontiac Tempest from Vermont to San Francisco with only $45 and a burning desire to break into underground comics.
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