Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intel
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    [synopsis] => 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-presented tales of taboo sex, casual drug use, and a transgressive view of society. Embraced by hippies and legions of future creatives, this subgenre of comic books and strips was printed on out-of-date machinery, published in zines and underground newspapers, and distributed in head shops, in porno stores, and on street corners. Comix often ran afoul of the law, but that would not stop them from casting cultural ripples for decades to come, eventually moving the entire comics form out of the gutter and into fine-art galleries.
	Author Brian Doherty weaves together the stories of R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Harvey Pekar, and Howard Cruse among many others, detailing the complete narrative history of this movement that came to define "cool." Via dozens of new interviews and archival research, Doherty chronicles the scenes that sprang up around the country in the 1960s and '70s and the rivalries, ideological battles, and conflicts that flourished. Dirty Pictures is the essential exploration of a truly American art form that re-contextualized the way people thought about war, race, sex, gender, and expression. 
	"A free-wheeling, frank account…Doherty pokes into every corner of the scene…Lively, well researched, and full of telling anecdotes." 
	"[An] illuminating history of the counterculture comics movement and…how it perfectly reflected the rapidly changing norms of the baby boomer generation and its enduring impact on pop culture today." 
	"Doherty expertly details the players and events that led to an artistic renaissance." 
	"It's impeccably researched, sharply written, and opens a portal back to that old, weird America that found its mind by losing it a little." 
	"The story of underground comix is not just important, it's as American as an apple pie laced with LSD." 
	"A fascinating deep dig into a unique subculture populated…whose rude, jarring, and far-out works of art changed the face of American humor." 
	"A welcome addition to an under-analyzed legacy of the free-spirited 1960s."
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