Underground Classics

by Denis Kitchen and James Danky

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The impact of American underground comix is profound: They galvanized artists both domestically and abroad; they forever changed the economics of comic book publishing; and they influenced generations of cartoonists, including their predecessors. While the works of Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman are well-known via the New Yorker, Maus, and retrospective collections, the art of their contemporaries such as Gilbert Shelton, Trina Robbins, Justin Green, Kim Deitch, S. Clay Wilson, and many other seminal cartoonists who came of age in the 1960s is considerably less known.Underground Classics provides the first serious survey of underground comix as art, turning the...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780810905986
  • Publish Date 1 May 2009
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 February 2024
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Abrams
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 144
  • Language English