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Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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...
2) Crumb
Series
Language
English
Description
An intimate documentary portrait of underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb's incredible career, as well as his past, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people ever seen on-screen.
Author
Series
Angry Youth Comix volume 1
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Johnny Ryan's utterly unpretentious taboo-tackling is an infectious and hilarious bombardment of political incorrectness, taking full advantage of the medium's absurdist potential for maximum laughs. In an age when the medium is growing up and aspiring to more mature and hoity-toity literary heights, Ryan builds on the visceral tradition that cartooning has had on our collective funny bone for over a century. Now, for the first time, all fourteen...
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Language
English
Description
A collection of underground comics created over the past forty years that feature gay men and lesbians and deal with issues of importance to the gay and lesbian community, including stories by Alison Bechdel, Howard Cruse, Ralf König, and David Wojnaraowicz.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jim is Woodring's cartoon alter ego, the fictional doppelganger who has for 30 years inhabited Woodring's alternate universe. This mind-bending collection of comics stories, prose stories, drawings, and paintings includes a new introduction and afterword by Woodring.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"This collection features over 120 pages of vintage Crumb comics starring the white-bearded, diminutive sage-cum-charlatan, ranging from charming, free-wheeling early '70s stories to the disturbing, controversial '90s stories (as seen in the Crumb movie), including the entire 40-page 'Mr. Natural and Devil Girl' saga from Hup! (collected here for the first time in book form)" -- from publisher's web site.
12) Cankor
Author
Publisher
AdHouse Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A young man makes a rare excursion outside the comfort of his home to see a rock & roll show. That choice is met with violence and humiliation. When he calls out for help to his unresponsive savior (the sad sack cyborg CANKOR), it sets off a cherry bomb of psychedelic mayhem. A candy colored nightmare of tangled wires, bubbling flesh and the towering corpses of superhumans... CANKOR takes a deep dive into parts of the brain that are better left sealed."...
Author
Publisher
Lion Forge
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 2010, Professor John Jennings and Dr. Damian Duffy compiled and published a 176-page collection of art and essays celebrating the vibrant African American independent comics community. Black Comix featured over 50 contributors, including Dawud Anyabwile, Eric Battle, Kenji Marshall, Afua Richardson, Larry Stroman, Rob Stull, Lance Tooks, and many, many more. It met high praise throughout the industry and quickly sold through its respectable print...
Author
Series
Crónicas Anagrama volume 111
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
junio 2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Nazario Luque Vera, de nombre artístico Nazario, llegó a Barcelona procedente de Sevilla en 1972 con un trabajo de maestro bajo el brazo y el firme propósito de dejarlo en cuanto pudiese ganarse la vida dibujando cómics. No tardó en abandonar el colegio, pero lo de vivir de los tebeos resultó un poco más complicado. El joven dibujante vivió en primera persona la Barcelona libertaria, contracultural y canalla de los últimos años del franquismo...
Author
Publisher
Knockabout Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It is 50 years since the world's best-loved and best-known underground comic characters first appeared in The Rag in Austin Texas. Now published in 16 languages and with global sales of over 40 million copies. This souvenir extravaganza contains brand new strips including: Phineas Becomes a Suicide Bomber, Franklin Got His Gun and Fat Freddy Gets Religion. Gilbert Shelton has written a 6,000 word autobiography/history/anecdote-filled account of those...
18) Black kiss
Author
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A jazz musician and ex-con framed for the murder of his wife and daughter plummets into a nightmare of sex and death in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Collecting issues 1-18 of the iconic Daniel Clowes comics anthology Eightball; it contains the original installments of Ghost World, the short that the film Art School Confidential was based on, and much more, newly designed for paperback by the author. The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. From...
20) Crumb's world
Author
Publisher
David Zwirner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"R. Crumb's obsessions--from sex to the Bible, music, politics, and the vicissitudes and obscenities of daily life--are chronicled in this comprehensive book of work by the illustrious American comic artist. Instrumental in the formation of the underground comics scene in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s, Crumb has ruptured and expanded the boundaries of the graphic arts, redefining comics and cartoons as countercultural art forms. Presenting...
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