The cover art of 70s gonzo comix often hearkened back to the medium's pulp and scifi roots, albeit with a distinctly adult and tripped-out twist. Here's a slew of comic covers from artists such as Robert Crumb and Warren Greenwood.
Sartre’s novel Nausea introduced his philosophical view as a form of illness to a WWII readership. “Nausea is existence revealing itself—and experience is not pleasant to see,” he wrote in his own summary of his first book, published in 1938.
When I turn the page and read the pages from any Graphic Novel I can instantly recognized the art and the artist that drew in each comic panel. Reading comic books and Graphic Novels for 15 years …
200 pages of Sasaki Maki (including the two stories mentioned), coming soon from Breakdown Press...
Spain was a for real greaser who drew monstrous people and perfect motor vehicles. He will be sorely missed. In his honor, I've put together a giant gallery of his images.
200 pages of Sasaki Maki (including the two stories mentioned), coming soon from Breakdown Press...
Gary Panter takes a trip to the underground Hippie past with his new comic collection “Crashpad.”
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Cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, whose autobiographical comics often featured herself and her husband Robert Crumb, died on November 29th at her home in France from pancreatic cancer. She was 74.
Comic Creator Robert Crumb
Ahh, the endless subversive thrills of underground comix. It is hard to fathom in these everything-goes days of informational overload, but during their early 70’s heyday, they were a thumb in the eye to everything holy and sacred about American culture, including its worship of bland, morally-incorruptible superheroes. Instead of lame-os like Superman and Captain America we had pervy creeps like Fritz the Cat and weed-smoking slackers The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Rife with drugs, violence, sex and sedition, these thoroughly adult “funnybooks” were counter-cultural timebombs. Once you’ve read an issue of Bizarre Sex, Death Rattle or Cocaine Funnies, Archie and Jughead just won’t do anymore. The underground comics (or “comix” as they were widely known) phenomenon sprouted from the fertile artistic well of San Francisco in the late 1960s. Some of its earliest practitioners/pioneers included Gilbert Shelton (Freak Brothers), S. Clay Wilson (The Checkered Demon), Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead) and of course Robert Crumb (Zap Comix, Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural). It took a few years for these gritty, greasy comics to slither across the pond, especially since Britain had a knack for banning this kind of hippy-dippy counter-culture stuff. In fact,...
The cover art of 70s gonzo comix often hearkened back to the medium's pulp and scifi roots, albeit with a distinctly adult and tripped-out twist. Here's a slew of comic covers from artists such as Robert Crumb and Warren Greenwood.
Comic Creator Aline Kominsky-Crumb
When I turn the page and read the pages from any Graphic Novel I can instantly recognized the art and the artist that drew in each comic panel. Reading comic books and Graphic Novels for 15 years …
A new exhibition celebrations International Times, Oz, Gandalf’s Garden and other avant garde British magazines
Since the 50s, cartoonist R Crumb’s funny, sexy and subversive cartoons have a shone a satirical light on American life and its neuroses.
The US comic artist Skip Williamson has died, leaving behind hilarious work that pokes fun at the hypocrisies on both sides of the political spectrum
