Thursday, 4:13pm
28 June 2012
How comix radicalised a generation [extract]
The Underground Comix Revolution 1963–1975
Rebel Visions:<br>By Patrick Rosenkranz<br>Fantagraphics Books. USD39.95/£24.80Underground comix were not actually produced in secret hideaways or distributed through clandestine cells by fugitive partisans. Beginning in 1963, in the wake of the Berkeley (California) Free Speech Movement, the genre rose from obscurity to popular culture status as satiric and ribald alternatives to the socially acceptable, mainstream superhero and romance comic books. Within a few years it found a wildly enthusiastic audience among the young . . .