Larry Welz was born in Fresno in 1948. He got involved with underground comix in the 1960s,
creating Captain Guts in 1969, a comic full of sex and violence. Welz made Cherry Comics in 1984,
a parody series.
Larry Welz moved from the West Coast to Roswell, New Mexico, where he and his
wife self-publish Cherry Comics and created the graphic novel 'The Bird'.