Sheridan eventually settled in San Anselmo, California. There he became a member of the Artista collective, an artist collective with its own jackets and softball team. During the 1972 Major League Baseball strike, he appointed himself the head of the "Scab League", offering to have his team take the strikers' places for $100 per week and all the beer they could drink.[3] He also befriended and worked closely with comedian Don Novello, drawing the album cover for Novello's Father Guido SarducciLive at St. Douglas Convent comedy album. A characterization of Sarducci appeared in a Dealer McDope adventure, "20,000 Kilos Beneath the Sea" in Mother's Oats #3.[4]
In 1974, Sheridan began collaborating on Gilbert Shelton's The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers strips. These were syndicated by Rip Off Press to alternative and college weeklies nationwide, and later collected into comix and anthologies.[5] His first issue of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers was #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, including a Carlos Castanedaparody. Sheridan's detailed graphic style lent itself well to the fantastic imagery needed to lampoon Castaneda's drug-related Central American-cum-New Agesorcery. He then continued to collaborate on the Freak Brothers comix series[6] through issues 5, 6 and 7; the team was joined by Paul Mavrides in 1978 for issue #6. In all, Sheridan contributed to 45 Freak Brothers tales.
Death
Sheridan was diagnosed with cancer on March 3, 1982, eight months after his July 4, 1981, marriage to Dava Stone. Sheridan died from a brain hemorrhage on March 28, 1982. He had been in a coma for four days at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco. He was buried at sea at a memorial service the following Friday.[citation needed]
His wife Dava gave birth to their daughter Dori on April 4, 1982, a week after Sheridan died.[3]
Biography
A biography — Dave Sheridan: Life with Dealer McDope, the Leather Nun, and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers — which reproduces most of his comix and graphics work, was published by Fantagraphics Books in 2018.
Bibliography
Overland Vegetable Stagecoach (with Fred Schrier)
Mother's Oats Comix #1 – San Francisco Comic Book Company/Rip Off Press 1969
Mother's Oats Comix #2 – San Francisco Comic Book Company/Rip Off Press 1970
The Balloon Vendor – San Francisco Comic Book Company/Rip Off Press 1971
Meef Comix #1 – San Francisco Comic Book Company/Rip Off Press 1972
Meef Comix #2 – San Francisco Comic Book Company/Rip Off Press 1973
Tales of the Leather Nun #1 – Last Gasp Eco Funnies, 1973
Mindwarp: An Anthology by Sheridan & Schrier — And/Or Press, 1974
Mother's Oats Comix #3 – San Francisco Comic Book Company/Rip Off Press 1976
Other
Slow Death Funnies #1 (with Fred Schrier, Jim Osborne and Gilbert Shelton) – Last Gasp 1970
Slow Death Funnies #2 "The Sex Evulsors of Tecnicus" – Last Gasp 1970
The Food Stamp Gourmet by William Brown, Illustrations by Greg Irons, Gilbert Shelton, and Dave Sheridan — Bellerophon Books, 1971.
The Legion of Charlies by Tom Veitch, Greg Irons, and Dave Sheridan (Paperback) Last Gasp, 1971
Light Comitragies – Greg Irons — Print Mint 1971
Skull Comics No.s 2–5 – San Francisco Comic Book Company/Rip Off Press 1971–1972
Yellow Dog #19 (with Fred Schrier) – The Print Mint 1971
Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers issues 4, 5, 6 (with Paul Mavrides), and 7
Jayzey Lynch's Nard n' Pat No. 1 "We Could Get Any Artist ta Draw Us!" (1974)
U-Comix Sammelband Nr. 1 (Introduction to Paperback) UPN-Volksverlag (1974)
U-Comix Sammelband Nr. 2 (Introduction to Paperback) UPN-Volksverlag (1975)
The Seattle Simpleton (vol. 1 No. 3) "The Mellow Cab Man" (Freewheelin' Frank) and "The Story of Phineas and the Organic Mechanic", both by Shelton & Sheridan. Spring 1976.
Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat Books 1–3 – with Gilbert Shelton — Rip Off Press, 1977
Thoroughly Ripped with the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy's Cat! by Shelton and Sheridan — Rip Off Press, 1978
The Best of High Times Comix, vol. 4 (1983) including Dr. McDope in Peru by Siegel & Sheridan, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Shelton & Sheridan, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and the Mysterious Visitor by Shelton & Sheridan, and "Notorious Norbert" by Fleagle & Fosdick (AKA Shelton & Sheridan)
Dealer McDope – Rip Off Press, 1985 (part of Underground Classics No. 2-3)
Time Twisted Tales Rip Off Press, 1986
The Collected Fat Freddy's Cat. Vol. 1 by Gilbert Shelton & Dave Sheridan — Rip Off Press, 1989.
The Freak Brothers Bus Line and Other Tales by Gilbert Shelton, Paul Mavrides and Dave Sheridan — Rip Off Press, 1990
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Library by Gilbert Shelton, Dave Sheridan, and Paul Mavrides Rip Off Press, Incorporated (March 1995) ISBN0-89620-094-9, ISBN978-0-89620-094-4
Dave Sheridan: Life with Dealer McDope, The Leather Nun, and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fantagraphics Underground, Mark Burstein (editor), ISBN978-1683961208
Game
Dealer McDope Dealing Game (Print Mint, 1971)[7][8]