Underground comix Underground comix The Air Pirates were a group of cartoonists who created two issues of an underground comic called Air Pirates Funnies in 1971, leading to a famous lawsuit by The Walt Disney Company. Founded by Dan O'Neill, the group also included Shary Flenniken, Bobby London, Gary Hallgren, and Ted Richards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Air Pirates"
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is a 1972 comic book by Justin Green. It was the first long autobiographical work to appear in underground comics, and was extremely personal, detailing Green's childhood struggle with Catholicism and what was later diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This comic book influenced many other cartoonists of Green's generation to explore their own personal histories; Art Spiegelman said it made his novel Maus possible. ...more on Wikipedia about "Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary"
David Geiser ( June 18, 1948 – present) is an American painter and comics artist. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Geiser"
Dirty Duck is an underground comic strip created by Bobby London. London's best known character, Dirty Duck, first appeared in one of the most notorious undergrounds of all, Air Pirates Funnies. London contributed 12 of the 36 pages of Air Pirates #1 (July, 1971), and the bulk of his contribution consisted of Dirty Duck. This has led to a popular but erroneous belief that Dirty was included in the famous lawsuit by which Disney sank the Air Pirates. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dirty Duck (comix character)"
The East Village Other (often abbreviated as EVO), was a leading underground newspaper in New York City during the late 1960s. First published in late 1965, it was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge (the Los Angeles Free Press had begun publishing a few months earlier), and it was the first to adopt the colorful psychedelic layout that became a distinguishing characteristic of the underground papers of the time. EVO was one of the founding members of the Underground Press Syndicate, a network that allowed member papers to freely reprint each other's contents. ...more on Wikipedia about "East Village Other"
Electric Soup is the title of a Scottish underground comic book series which was first published in 1989. ...more on Wikipedia about "Electric Soup"
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers are a trio of underground comic strip characters created by the U.S. artist Gilbert Shelton. Beginning in 1968 their adventures were collected in a series of underground comics published by Rip Off Press. With the demise of the underground newspaper, new adventures continued to appear in magazines, such as Playboy, High Times, and Rip Off Comix, and these too were collected in comic book form. Shelton continued to write the series up 1992, in collaboration with Dave Sheridan ( 1974- 1982) and Paul Mavrides (since 1978). The work enjoys a sizeable cult following, and the magazines are widely available in underground comic stores. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"
Fat Freddy Freekowtski is a character in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix. He is one of the Freak Brothers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fat Freddy"
Fat Freddy's Cat (aka Fat Freddy Scat) is an orange tabby tomcat nominally belonging to Fat Freddy Freekowtski, one of the Freak Brothers, a trio of hippies who are featured in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix. He first appeared in 1969 in underground newspapers as a character in The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers strip, and later had his own small topper strip, in imitation of the early Krazy Kat strips below The Family Upstairs by George Herriman. Many of these strips have been collected in comic book form, in Rip Off Comix, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Comics and Stories (one shot, 1983), and The Adventures of Fat Freddy's Cat, which ran for four small size issues in the 1970s which were reprinted and expanded (starting over from #1) in six comic book size issues in the 1980s. This title included new longer stories about the Cat. After the demise of the underground newspaper, the Cat continued to appear in various comic books. His last appearance to date was in a 1990 strip reprinted in The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers #12. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fat Freddy's Cat"
Freewheelin' Franklin (no last name for this character has ever been given) is one of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, a trio of characters in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix. ...more on Wikipedia about "Freewheelin' Franklin"
Fritz the Cat is a comic book fictional character created by Robert Crumb during the height of the underground comics movement of the 1960s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fritz the Cat"
Harvey Pekar (born October 8, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a Jewish American underground comic book writer. His friendship with Robert Crumb led to the creation of the autobiographical comic book series American Splendor, later adapted as a movie. American Splendor documented daily life in the aging neighborhoods of Pekar's native Cleveland, where Pekar worked (thoughout his life, including after gaining fame) as a file clerk in a large Veteran's Administration hospital. He was married from 1960 to 1972 to Karen Delaney, currently a writer and educator living in Chicago. The marriage ended in divorce. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harvey Pekar"
Harvey Kurtzman's longest-running magazine project after leaving Mad Magazine and EC Publications, Help! (1960-1965) was a chronically underfunded but innovative magazine published by James Warren, who was also publishing successful monster-movie and horror comics magazines simultaneously. Kurtzman's assistants over the run of the magazine included a young Terry Gilliam and a young Gloria Steinem; the latter was apparently very helpful in gathering the celebrity comedians who would appear on the covers of each issue, as well as occasionally to serve as actor/models in the fumetti strips the magazine ran along with more traditional comics and text pieces. (Among the then little-known performers in the fumetti were John Cleese and Woody Allen; better-known performers such as Orson Bean were also known to participate.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Help! (magazine)"
It Ain't Me Babe was an underground comix anthology, edited by Trina Robbins in 1970 and published by Last Gasp. It was among the first comics to feature all women artists, and it stands as an early example of the feminist art produced as part of the Women's Liberation movement. ...more on Wikipedia about "It Ain't Me Babe" Pure shortopedia. Pure Information Power.
Phineas T. Freakears is one of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, a trio of hippies portrayed in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix of that name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phineas Freakears"
Space Cat is an underground cartoon by Fish Griwkowsky which begun as a joke illustration in a Canadian university newspaper in 1993. Detailing the exploits of Zingers the Space Cat from planet Spectacula, the plot-arc-heavy strip is published in campus newspapers across the Great White North, including The Gateway. ...more on Wikipedia about "Space Cat"
Tijuana Bibles (also known as "eight-pagers") were pornographic comic books produced in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Their popularity peaked during the Great depression era. The typical "bible" is 4 by 6 inches, with black printing on cheap white paper, and eight pages long. In most cases the artists, writers and publishers of these tracts are unknown. The art is usually crude and sometimes included racist caricatures (Blacks are portayed with huge lips and protruding eyes). Their subject is explicit sexual escapades and, usually featuring well known cartoon characters, political figures or movie stars (used without permission). ...more on Wikipedia about "Tijuana bible"
Underground comics (or comix) are self-published or small press comic books that sprang up in the US in the late 1960s. The movement 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, Robert Williams, S. Clay Wilson, Skip Williamson, Rick Griffin, Gilbert Shelton, Art Spiegelman, Kim Deitch, Jay Lynch, Spain Rodriguez, Bill Griffith, Justin Green and Trina Robbins. Mainstream comics were typically produced by a team (writer, penciler, inker, letterer, editor), while underground books were often done by a single person. Underground artists also contributed shorter works to thematic anthology comic titles, such as Funny Aminals (1972), edited by Terry Zwigoff with work by Crumb, Griffith, Lynch, Spiegelman and Shary Flenniken. ...more on Wikipedia about "Underground comix"
Wimmen's Comix, later titled Wimmin's Comix, was an influential all-female underground comics anthology published from 1970 to 1992. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wimmen's Comix"
Edited and published by Bill Pearson on an irregular schedule spanning decades, the alternative comic book witzend featured contributions by both newcomers to comics, leading comic book artists and professional illustrators. The title was printed in lower-case. With the emphasis on graphic stories, the magazine is generally regarded as a forerunner of the underground comics movement of the late 1960s. It was launched in 1966 by the writer-artist Wallace Wood shortly after Richard Kyle coined the term "graphic story" (1964-65) and Bhob Stewart, during a panel discussion at the second New York comic book convention, coined the term "underground comics." ...more on Wikipedia about "Witzend"
Zap Comix is among the best-known of the underground comics that emerged as part of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zap Comix"
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