In 1969, he postponed starting in Yale University, moving instead to San Francisco and began drawing underground comix, while befriending other underground comic creators such as S. Clay Wilson and San Francisco Comic Book Company founder Grey Arlington and immersed himself in illustrations.
[1] Geiser created several underground comic titles in the early 1970s, including Saloon, Demented Pervert, Clowns, Uncle Sham, DTs, Pain, Sloppy Seconds, and Edge City.
Geiser left San Francisco in 1976 and spent two years in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
His canvases are tactile and deep, often being composed of many layers of shellac, pitch, tar, rope and scrap wood.
[3][better source needed][4] David Geiser died unexpectedly of heart disease in his sleep at home on October 14, 2020, at the age of 73.