Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art

by Brian Doherty

Book Overview

A COMPLETE NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WORLD OF UNDERGROUND COMIX

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419750461
• ISBN13: 9781419750465
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.7" x 9.1"