Calvin "Cal" Schenkel (born January 27, 1947, Willow Grove,
Pennsylvania) is an American illustrator, graphic designer, animator
and comics artist, specializing in album cover design.He was the main
graphic arts collaborator for rock musician Frank Zappa and was
responsible for the design of many Zappa album covers. Schenkel's work
is iconic and distinctive in style, a forerunner of punk art and the
new wave era.Schenkel grew up in Oreland, Pennsylvania. He attended
the Philadelphia College of Art but left after one semester and set
out to build a career. As an unemployed artist in New York City in
1967 Schenkel was introduced to Zappa by his then girlfriend, singer
Sandy Hurvitz (later known as Essra Mohawk).Schenkel's artwork,
influenced at first by the comic strip Krazy Kat and by Mad magazine,
had by 1967 developed its own "primitive" "ragged" surrealist style. Cal Schenkel Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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