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

by Brian Doherty

Book Overview

Journalist and comic book critic Brian Doherty's Dirty Pictures is the first complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comix--"a welcome addition to an under-analyzed legacy of the free-spirited 1960s" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141975047X
• ISBN13: 9781419750472
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Abrams Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"