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Underground Comix
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 the Wimmen's Comix Collective)
Witzend (edited by Wallace Wood and Bill Pearson)
Young Lust (romance comic satire edited by Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney)
Zap Comix (Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams,
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20 Nov 2008 at 3:03am
![]() Will Eisner Profession Cartoonist: DVD
AFNews, Italy - 4 hours ago
... decade-long reprinting of all 645 stories and new authorized adventures from DC Comics. ?The Dream? reveals Eisner?s meetings with underground ... |
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18 Nov 2008 at 5:54pm Alfred A. Knopf, $24, 245 pp. Ann Rice has undergone a spiritual and literary conversion. It has polarized her life and writing in a way that makes you wonder if a Christian can write about vampires or if an atheist can write about God. After a ... Read more...
17 Nov 2008 at 12:27am 
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com |
![]() The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Nov 16, 2008
Underground comix historian Pat Rosenkranz reminded me this morning that those papers -- 700 pages of drawings from the years 1955 and 1956, ... |
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16 Nov 2008 at 5:18am ''R. Crumb's Underground'' at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia is a perversely pummeling retrospective of the graphic cartoonist's gods, demons and enemies. It left me feeling zapped by a brilliant alien. Raised in Philadelphia ... Read more...
15 Nov 2008 at 5:59pm 
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com |
![]() A Few Snapshots of S. Clay Wilson
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com, OR - Nov 15, 2008
When I told her it was Wilson, who she actually HAD heard of since I'd shown her some of his work previously as an example of how extreme underground comix ... |
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15 Nov 2008 at 5:58pm S. Clay Wilson -- who suffered a severe brain injury two weeks ago -- was taken off the ventilator Sunday and seems to be holding up fairly well. "Of course, it was very frightening," Lorraine Chamberlain, the cartoonist's long-time partner, said ... Read more...
15 Nov 2008 at 5:58pm I'll check in with Lorraine Chamberlain Sunday to get an update on the injured cartoonist, but here's a few memories of the man from David Scroggy , vice president of product development at Dark Horse: While I wasn't as good a friend of his as some ... Read more...
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