The first complete narrative history of Underground Comix, the
countercultural movement from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s that
forever changed comicsIn Dirty Pictures: How Nerds, Feminists,
Bikers, and Potheads Revolutionized Comix, author and journalist
Brian Doherty tells the wild history of the outlaw, outsider, and
sometimes illegal world of Underground Comix. This subterranean
subgenre of comic strips and books was printed in lofts on
out-of-date machinery, published in handbound zines and underground
newspapers, and distributed in headshops, porno stores, and on
street corners. Comix-spelled that way to distinguish the work from
its dime-store superhero contemporaries-presented tales of illicit
sex, casual drug use, and a transgressive view of American society
that was embraced by hippies, the fine-art world, and legions of
future creatives. With a narrative that weaves together the stories
of Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, and
Art Spiegelman, among many others, Doherty details, in the first
complete narrative history of this movement, the local scenes that
sprang up in the 1960s and '70s in New York City, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Chicago, and provides insight into the
rivalries, ideological battles, and conflicts that flourished.The
book begins with the artists' origin stories and follows them
through major successes, including Spiegelman's Pulitzer
Prize-winning Maus and Robbins's Wimmen's Comix, and tragedies,
from S. Clay Wilson's spiral into alcohol abuse that resulted in
career-ending brain damage to Crumb's neurotic running from his own
success (and his use of controversial race and gender imagery), and
ends with an examination of these creators' legacies. Dirty
Pictures is the essential exploration of a truly American art form
that recontextualized the way people thought about war, race, sex,
gender, and expression.
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