Journalist and comic book critic Brian Dohertys Dirty Pictures is the first complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comixa welcome addition to an underanalyzed legacy of the freespirited 1960s (San Francisco Chronicle). In the 1950s, comics meant POW!BAM! superheroes, familyfriendly 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 comixspelled that way to distinguish the work from their dimestore contemporariespresented 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 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 fineart galleries. Brian Doherty weaves together the stories of R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Harvey Pekar, and Howard Cruse, among many others, detailing the complete narrative history of this movement. Through dozens of new interviews and archival research, he chronicles the scenes that sprang up around the country in the 1960s and 70s, beginning with the artists origin stories and following them through success and strife, and concluding with an examination of these creators legacies. Dirty Pictures is the...

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: Abrams; Classification: DS; Weight: 642 g; Dimensions: 220 x 140 x 30

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