User:Curly Turkey/Underground comix

underground comix that flourished in the late 1960s and 1970s.

History
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From 1961 Texan cartoonist Frank Stack (under the name Foolbert Sturgeon) drew a comic strip called The Adventures of J, which Gilbert Shelton collected and published as The Adventures of Jesus in 1964. Later that year, Jaxon published God Nose. These two photocopied publications are most commonly thought of as the first underground comic books. Other contenders include Rick Griffin's The Surfing Funnies (1961), Vaughn Bodē's Das Kampf (1963), Charles Plymell's Robert Ronnie Branaman (1963), and Joel Beck's The Profit (1966).

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Robert Crumb had his work published in Kurtzman's humor magazine Help! in 1965. The men's magazine Cavalier published some of his Fritz the Cat strips in 1965 and 1966, and in 1967 he attracted attention from countercultural audiences when the magazine ran his strip "Stoned", as well as from appearances in the East Village Other and other underground newspapers. In late 1967 the Philadelphia underground newspaper Yarrowstalks devoted an entire issue to Crumb's work. Don Donahue and Charles Plymell invited Crumb to publish his own comic book; the first issue of Zap Comix appeared in February 1968. At first Crumb sold copies from a baby carriage on the streets of San Francisco, and found an eager audience with the local hippies.

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