Mr. Natural in Zap Comix
Underground
comics (or comix) are small press or self-published
comic books that began to appear in the US in the late 1960s. The
comix community was centered in San Francisco, but also included important artists and publishers in New York, Chicago and Austin, Texas. Prominent artists associated with this movement include Vaughn Bode, Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Jim Franklin, Justin Green, Roberta Gregory, Rick Griffin, Bill Griffith, Jack "Jaxon" Jackson, Jay Kinney, Jay Lynch, Dan O'Neill, Ted Richards, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Art Spiegelman, Foolbert Sturgeon, Robert Williams, Skip Williamson and S. Clay Wilson.
Underground
comix reflect the concerns of the 1960s counterculture: experimentation in all things, drug-altered states of mind, rejection of sexual taboos, ridicule of "the establishment." The spelling 'comix' was established to differentiate these publications from mainstream 'comics'. The notion of
comic books outside the mainstream was suggested by Harvey Kurtzman when he used the headline "Comics Go Underground" on the newspaper-format cover of Mad issue 16 (October, 1954). The term 'underground comics' was created by writer-editor Bhob Stewart during a panel discussion at the July 23, 1966, New York
comics convention. On a panel with Ted White and Archie Goodwin, Stewart predicted the birth of a new type of comic book: "I want to say that just as mainstream movies prompted underground films, I think the same thing is going to happen with comics. You will have underground
comics just as you have had underground films. This would be more like James Joyce in
comic book form. You can see the beginning of this in some of the cartoon panels that have been appearing in the East Village Other newspaper
Hytone, Despair, Big Ass, XYZ (Robert Crumb)
It Ain't Me Babe (anthology edited by Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney)
Zap
Comix (Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson, Rick Griffin, Robert
matthew lillard as dagwood bumstead
jessica alba as blondie bumstead
alan alda as mr. dithers (dagwood's boss)
steve carell as beasley the mailman
ben stiller as herb woodley
anne hathaway herb's wife
some old battle-axe as cora dithers (mrs. dithers)
who do you think would make a good cast?
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And why does he resemble Herb Woodley the neighbor?
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