Dirty Pictures : : how an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and art School Rebels Revolutionized art and Invented Comix
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"In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set out to subvert the medium, and with it, American culture. Their "comix," spelled that way to distinguish the work from their dime-store contemporaries, presented tales of taboo sex, casual drug use, and a transgressive view of society. Embraced by hippies and legions of future creatives, this subgenre of comic books and strips was printed on out-of-date machinery, published in zines and underground newspapers, and distributed in head shops, in porno stores, and on street corners. Comix often ran afoul of the law, but that would not stop them from casting cultural ripples for decades to come, eventually moving the entire comics form beyond the gutter and into fine-art galleries."-- Amazon.com.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Abrams Press, 2022
Year Published: 2022
Description: 439 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781419750465
1419750461
SUBJECTS
Underground comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History and criticism.
Underground comics.
Literary criticism.