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Young Lust (comics)
''Young Lust'' was an underground comix anthology published sporadically from 1970 to 1993. The title, which parodied 1950s romance comics such as '' Young Love'', was noted for its explicit depictions of sex. Unlike many other sex-fueled underground comix, ''Young Lust'' was generally not perceived as misogynistic. Founding editors Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney gradually morphed the title into a satire of societal mores. According to Kinney, ''Young Lust'' "became one of the top three best-selling underground comix, along with '' Zap Comix'' and '' The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers''". ''Young Lust'' featured an all-star lineup of underground, and later alternative, cartoonists. Besides Griffith and Kinney, other frequent contributors included Justin Green, Roger Brand, Spain Rodriguez, Diane Noomin, Kim Deitch, Paul Mavrides, Michael McMillan, Ned Sonntag, Phoebe Gloeckner, and Harry S. Robins. In later years, the title was a showcase for female cartoonists like Gloeckner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Griffith
William Henry Jackson Griffith (born January 20, 1944) is an American cartoonist who signs his work Bill Griffith and Griffy. He is best known for his surreal comedy, surreal daily comic strip ''Zippy the Pinhead, Zippy''. The catchphrase "Are we having fun yet?" is credited to Griffith. Over his career, which started in the underground comix era, Griffith has worked with the industry's leading underground/alternative comics, alternative publishers, including Print Mint, Last Gasp (publisher), Last Gasp, Rip Off Press, Kitchen Sink (publisher), Kitchen Sink, and Fantagraphics Books. He co-edited the notable comics anthologies ''Arcade (comics magazine), Arcade'' and ''Young Lust (comics), Young Lust'', and has contributed comics and illustrations to a variety of publications, including ''National Lampoon (magazine), National Lampoon'', ''High Times'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Village Voice'' and ''The New York Times''. Early life, family and education Born in Brooklyn, New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Burns (cartoonist)
Charles Burns (born September 27, 1955) is an American cartoonist and illustrator. His early work was published in a Sub Pop fanzine, and he achieved prominence in the early issues of '' RAW''. His graphic novel '' Black Hole'' won the Harvey Award. Career Comics Charles Burns' earliest works include illustrations for the Sub Pop fanzine, and '' Another Room Magazine'' of Oakland, but he came to prominence when his comics were published for the first time in early issues of '' RAW'', the avant-garde comics magazine founded in 1980 by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman. In 1982, Burns did a die-cut cover for RAW #4. Raw Books also published two books of Burns as RAW One-Shots: ''Big Baby'' and ''Hard-Boiled Defective Stories''.El Borbah / ''Hard-Boiled Defective Stories'' at [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Panter
Gary Panter (born December 1, 1950) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, designer and part-time musician. Panter's work is representative of the post- underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of '' Arcade: The Comics Revue'' and the initiation of '' RAW'', one of the second generation in American underground comix. Panter has published his work in various magazines and newspapers, including ''Raw'', ''Time'' and ''Rolling Stone'' magazine. He has exhibited widely, and won three Emmy awards for his set designs for '' Pee-wee's Playhouse.'' His most notable works include ''Jimbo, Adventures in Paradise'', '' Jimbo's Inferno'' and ''Facetasm'', which was created together with Charles Burns. Biography Panter attended East Texas State University, now known as Texas A&M University-Commerce, where he studied under Jack Unruh anLee Baxter Daviswhere he was one of The Lizard Cult. As an early participant in the Los Angeles punk scene in the 1970s, Pant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Colwell
Guy Colwell (born March 28, 1945) is an American painter and occasional underground cartoonist. Although not African-American himself, Colwell's comics often portray blacks in strong roles in stories of life on the streets. His " Figurative Social Surrealist" paintings reflect on the human condition, economic inequality, injustice, and alienation from the natural world. Biography Guy Colwell was on born March 28, 1945, in Oakland, California. Colwell studied art at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts). After completing two years there, he dropped out to travel and get some life and work experience. When he had worked an almost two-year stint as a sculptor for Mattel, and was preparing his return to college. He was arrested for draft refusal and sentenced to two years in federal prison at McNeil Island Corrections Center, in Washington state. His experiences there and the period after his release were the genesis of his underground com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb (; born August 30, 1943) is an American cartoonist and musician who often signs his work R. Crumb. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. Crumb is a prolific artist and contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, '' Zap Comix'', contributing to all 16 issues. He was additionally contributing to the '' East Village Other'' and many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics. During this time, inspired by psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural, and the images from his '' Keep On Truckin''' strip. Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And/Or Press
And/Or Press was an independent small press publisher based in the San Francisco Bay Area that operated from 1974 to 1983. The company published books on personal development, guides to the countercultural lifestyle, and consciousness expansion. A number of the company's books were on the psychedelic experience and related subjects. And/Or Press was also one of the first book publishers to embrace underground comix, publishing collections by Bill Griffith, Dave Sheridan, and Fred Schrier. The company went out of business in 1983 after a hostile takeover; co-founder Joseph Sebastian Orfali and his partner Beverly Potter immediately founded Ronin Publishing, which picked up the mantle And/Or Press had established. In 2009, the And/Or Press name was revived in Vancouver, Canada. Overview A number of And/Or Press books on recreational drugs were high-volume sellers in the 1970s, including Mel Frank and Ed Rosenthal's ''The Indoor Highest Quality Marijuana Grower's Guide'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rip Off Press
Rip Off Press Inc. is a comic book mail order retailer and distributor, better known as the former publisher of adult-themed series like '' The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'' and ''Rip Off Comix'', as well as many other seminal publications from the underground comix era. Founded in 1969 in San Francisco by four friends from Austin, Texas — cartoonists Gilbert Shelton and Jack Jackson, and Fred Todd and Dave Moriaty — Rip Off Press is now run in Auburn, California, by Todd. Rip Off Press is notable for being the first company to publish the fourth edition of the ''Principia Discordia'', a Discordian religious text written by Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley. It was also an early publisher of a booklet on drug manufacturing, ''Psychedelic Chemistry''. History Origins In January 17, 1969, the company was founded in San Francisco by four Texans: Fred Todd, Dave Moriaty, and cartoonists Gilbert Shelton and Jack Jackson. The initial plan was to print rock band promotional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Comics
Alternative comics cover a range of American comics that have appeared since the 1980s, following the underground comix movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Alternative comics present an alternative to mainstream superhero comics which in the past have dominated the American comic book industry. Alternative comic books span a wide range of genres, artistic styles, and subjects. Alternative comics are often published in small numbers as the author(s) deem fit. They are often published with less regard for regular distribution schedules. Many alternative comics have variously been labelled post-underground comics, independent comics, indie comics, auteur comics, small press comics, new wave comics, creator-owned comics, art comics, or literary comics. Many self-published " minicomics" also fall under the "alternative" umbrella. From underground to alternative By the mid-1970s, artists within the underground comix scene felt that it had become less creative than it had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
''The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'' is an underground comic about a fictional trio of stoner characters, created by the American artist Gilbert Shelton. The Freak Brothers first appeared in ''The Rag'', an underground newspaper published in Austin, Texas, beginning in May 1968, and were regularly reprinted in underground papers around the United States and in other parts of the world. Later their adventures were published in a series of comic books. The lives of the Freak Brothers revolve around the procurement and enjoyment of recreational drugs, particularly marijuana. The comics present a critique of the establishment while satirizing counterculture. Fat Freddy's Cat appears in many of the stories, spinning off his own cartoon strip (which appeared as part of the Freak Brothers comic page, in the manner of older comic strip double features) and later some full-length episodes. An animated TV series adaptation, ''The Freak Brothers'', was released on Tubi on November 14, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zap Comix
''Zap Comix'' is an underground comix series which was originally part of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s. While a few small-circulation self-published satirical comic books had been printed prior to this, ''Zap'' became the model for the "comix" movement that snowballed after its release. The title itself published 17 issues over a period of 46 years. Premiering in early 1968 as a showcase for the work of Robert Crumb, ''Zap'' was unlike any comic book sensibility that had been seen before. After the success of the first issue, Crumb opened the pages of ''Zap'' to several other artists, including S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, "Spain" Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, and two artists with reputations as psychedelic poster designers, Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin. This group of artists, along with Crumb, remained mostly constant throughout the history of ''Zap.'' While the origin of the spelling "comix" is a subject of some dispute, it was popularized by its appearanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Love (comics)
''Young Love'' was one of the earliest Romance comics in the United States (1946–1975), romance comics titles, published by Crestwood Publications, Crestwood/Prize and later sold to DC Comics. History After the Sept/Oct 1947 in comics, 1947 release of Crestwood/Prize's genre-launching ''Young Romance'' comic (arguably the first romance comicRo, Ronin. ''Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and the American Comic Book Revolution'' (Bloomsbury, 2004)Don Markstein's ''Toonopedia'': "Romance Comics" Accessed May 27, 2008) by the prolific team of Joe Simon, Simon & Jack Kirby, Kirby sold "millions of copies", the company (and duo) swiftly prepared a separate spin-off title to capitalise on the success of this new genre. Launched amid imitators from (among others) Quality Comics, Fawcet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Comics
Romance comics is a comics genre depicting strong and close romantic love and its attendant complications such as jealousy, marriage, divorce, betrayal, and heartache. The term is generally associated with an American comic books genre published through the first three decades of the Cold War (1947–1977). Romance comics of the period typically featured dramatic scripts about the love lives of older high school teens and young adults, with accompanying artwork depicting an urban or rural America contemporaneous with publication. The origins of romance comics lie in the years immediately following World War II when adult comics readership increased and superheroes were dismissed as ''passé''. Influenced by the pulps, radio soap operas, newspaper comic strips such as ''Mary Worth'', and adult confession magazines, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created the flagship romance comic book '' Young Romance'' and launched it in 1947 to resounding success. By the early 1950s, doze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
