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Dirty Pictures
How Nerds, Feminists, Bikers, and Potheads Revolutionized Comix
Hardback with jacket
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Artikel-Nr:
9781419750465
Veröffentl:
2022
Einband:
Hardback with jacket
Erscheinungsdatum:
21.07.2022
Seiten:
439
Autor:
Brian Doherty
Gewicht:
688 g
Format:
236x159x45 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and is the author of This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground (Little, Brown, 2004). His reporting, essays, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, and Fantagraphics’s The Best American Comics Criticism, among others. He has also served as a judge for the comics industry’s Eisner Awards.
The first complete narrative history of Underground Comix, the countercultural movement from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s that forever changed comics. This subterranean subgenre of comic strips and books was printed in lofts on out-of-date machinery, published in handbound zines and underground newspapers, and distributed in headshops, porno stores, and on street corners. Comix - spelled that way to distinguish the work from its dime-store superhero contemporaries - presented tales of illicit sex, casual drug use, and a transgressive view of American society