...This chapter tells the story of Howard Cruse’s editorship of Gay Comix. Cruse was invited by Denis Kitchen of Kitchen Sink Press, an important underground comix publisher, to edit the new anthology series. The chapter draws on archival material from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual...

... Clement postmodernism abstract expressionism Eisner Will Herriman George McCay Winsor Töpffer Rudolph Gaines William Seduction of the Innocent The Wertham Wertham Fredric da Vinci Leonardo little magazines Superman Raw Spiegelman Spiegelman Art Harvey Kurtzman Arthur Danto Underground...

...Chapter Five points out that in the 1960s Robert Crumb, the most prominent figure of the Underground Comix movement, became infamous and controversial for creating overtly racist comic book characters like Angelfood McSpade. Crumb’s unapologetic attitude for these characters stems from his belief...

... underground comix Dell Comics Indian Springs School Little Lulu Seduction of the Innocent Wertham Wertham Fredric Comics Code Authority Kitchen Denis Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency Crumb R Playboy Cruse Allan brother Cruse Irma mother Bechdel Alison Beckett Samuel Camper Jennifer...

... Underground comix Interdisciplinary comics Joe Brainard Accounts of the history of underground comix generally agree that the first issue of R. Crumb’s Zap Comix, released in 1968, formally inaugurated the rise of the alternative comics movement. In the foreword to Rebel Visions...

...Chad A. Barbour analyzes how US Anglo underground comix creator Jack Jackson reconstructs Indigenous identities and experiences in a complex and progressive way. Barbour locates Jackson’s work within the contexts of resistance movements such as Alcatraz and Wounded Knee to show how he interrogates...

...), and 75 Years of the Comics (New York Cultural Center). Many shows included underground comix. Comics speciality museums opened and flourished, such as the Museum of Comic Art (Rye Brook, NY, 1975), The Cartoon Art Museum (San Francisco, 1987), and the ToonSeum (Pittsburgh, 2007...