• Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books that are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics...
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  • Zap Comix is an underground comix series which was originally part of the counterculture of the late 1960s. While a few small-circulation self-published...
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  • the underground comix movement in the 1960s. Donahue published numerous influential comics from that movement, including the first run of Zap Comix and...
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    in the underground comix movement. She is also known for creating the controversial work Fresca Zizis and her contributions to Wimmen's Comix, as well...
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    American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present...
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  • George DiCaprio (category Underground cartoonists)
    and former performance artist, known for his work in the realm of underground comix. DiCaprio has collaborated with Timothy Leary and Laurie Anderson...
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    records. Zwigoff's friendship with Crumb led to his involvement in the underground comix scene. He initially edited the one-shot Funny Aminals #1 (Apex Novelties...
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    Gilbert Shelton (category Underground cartoonists)
    American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the iconic underground characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers...
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  • [citation needed] Almost from the outset, the Underground Press Syndicate supported and distributed underground comix strips. Cartoonists and strips syndicated...
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    Robert Crumb (category Underground artists)
    works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, Zap Comix, contributing...
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    Trina Robbins (category Underground cartoonists)
    early participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the first women in the movement. She co-produced the 1970 underground comic It Ain't Me, Babe...
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  • Fritz the Cat (category Underground comix)
    associated with the underground comix scene between 1965 and 1972; Fritz the Cat comic compilations elevated it to one of the underground scene's most iconic...
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    "alternative" comics – such as Big Apple Comix, continued somewhat in the tradition of the earlier underground comics, while others, such as Star Reach...
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  • Mr. Natural (character) (category Underground comix)
    underground comix artist Robert Crumb. First appearing in Yarrowstalks (1967), the character gained a following during the emergence of underground comix...
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  • Rick Griffin (category Underground cartoonists)
    posters in the 1960s. He was a key figure in the underground comix movement as a fouding member of the Zap Comix collective. Griffin was closely identified...
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  • Gay Comix (later Gay Comics) is an underground comics series published from 1980 to 1998 featuring cartoons by and for gay men and lesbians. The comic...
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  • Database. Accessed 28 December 2016. Sabin, Roger (1996). "Going underground". Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art. London, United Kingdom:...
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    remaining underground press (including underground comix), largely by making the local head shops which stocked underground papers and comix in communities...
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    Art Spiegelman (category Underground cartoonists)
    1960s and Garbage Pail Kids in the 1980s. He gained prominence in the underground comix scene in the 1970s with short, experimental, and often autobiographical...
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  • counter culture figure and underground comix artist Robert Crumb. The character first appeared in the Philadelphia-based underground newspaper Yarrowstalks...
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  • S. Clay Wilson (category Underground cartoonists)
    1941 – February 7, 2021) was an American underground cartoonist and central figure in the underground comix movement. Wilson attracted attention from...
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  • David Geiser (category Underground cartoonists)
    October 14, 2020) was an American painter and creator of several underground comix. David Geiser was an abstract expressionist painter, born in Rochester...
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  • Wimmen's Comix, later retitled (respelled) as Wimmin's Comix, is an influential all-female underground comics anthology published from 1972 to 1992. Though...
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  • Bibles to Underground Comix. Harry N. Abrams inc. p. 104. Grand Comics Database: Penthouse Comix cover index Grand Comics Database: Penthouse Comix #1 Special...
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  • themes. The first issue of Armageddon appeared as an issue of All-New Underground Comix. It is the only comic book from that series to continue onto its own...
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  • The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (category Underground comix)
    Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, a trio featured in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix. While the Cat is usually featured in a small 'topper' strip below...
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    Bill Griffith (category Underground cartoonists)
    his career, which started in the underground comix era, Griffith has worked with the industry's leading underground/alternative publishers, including...
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    Jay Lynch (category Underground cartoonists)
    5, 2017) was an American cartoonist who played a key role in the underground comix movement with his Bijou Funnies and other titles. He is best known...
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    really highlighted underground comix; held in 1973, 1974, and 1976 (when it was known as "Underground '76"). Geerdes started the Comix Wave newsletter in...
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  • Homemade Comics, inspired in part by the seminal underground comix titles Bijou Funnies and Zap Comix. The selling out of the 4,000 print-run inspired...
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