Beginning around 2003, a political comic strip also began running in the paper, "Obermeyer’s Cut," by Neal Obermeyer. Other well-known comic artists who've served as staffers include Jim Cornelius, who illustrated Matthew Alice's long-running "Straight From the Hip" column from the earliest issues until being replaced by Rick Geary in the later 1970s, as well as famed surf artist and California landscape painter Jeff Yeomans (whose wall murals on San Diego buildings included the Unicorn Trading Company on India Street), political cartoonist J.D. Crowe (previously with the "San Diego Union Tribune" until drawing for the "Reader" from 1992 to 2000), underground cartoonist Spain Rodriguez (co-founder of "Zap Comix"), and Revolutionary Comics Managing Editor Jay Allen Sanford.