Skinn, Dez. Comix: The Underground Revolution.
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004. 288pp. ISBN
1-56025-572-2 (paper).
Foreword [by Denis
Kitchen] ... 6
Introduction: Putting the 'x' into Comix ... 10
- Love blooms on a street called Haight ... 11
- Crumb to the fore ... 20
- The impact of Zap ... 22
- First among equals, ergo ego ... 24
- Tijuana
Bibles: America's forbidden funnies from the '30s to the '50s
... 26-27
1. Heroes of the Revolution: The Major
Players ... 28
- R. Crumb ... 30
- Gilbert Shelton ... 34
- Rick Griffin ... 36
- Denis Kitchen ... 40
- Vaughn Bode ... 45
- S. Clay Wilson ... 49
- Spain Rodriguez ... 50
- Art Spiegelman ... 52
- Hunt Emerson ... 53
- Bryan Talbot ... 54
- Taking the
Mickey [Air Pirates] ... 56-57
2. Can't Get Enuff: Sex in Comix ... 58
- Pushing the velvet envelope ... 63
- The wimmin's point of view ... 74
- Gay comes into play ... 74
- Anything you can do, we can't ... 79
- Sex comix legacy ... 80
- The Two Lives
of Fritz the Cat ... 84-85
3. Grass Roots: Drugs in Comix ... 86
- Feds 'n' heds ... 88
- Dealer McDope ... 90
- Dr Atomic ... 90
- Dopin' Dan ... 93
- To toke or not to toke... ... 98
- Cocaine... in my brain ... 100
- US drought ... 103
- Those F***ing
Cats! ... 105-106
4. Beyond the Page: Adding muscle to the
movement ... 108
- Go west, young Greg ... 118
- Bap attack ... 122
- "What's wrong with being sexy?" ... 122
- "I could've retired on the T-shirt sales
alone!" ... 123
5. Publish and be Damned: Getting the work
out there ... 126
- The Politix
of Comix ... 128-130
- Ripping off the competition ... 134
- Kitchen Sink, and finally sank ... 138
- Big lungs ... 141
- Slow Death by name... ... 141
- Police raids ... 142
- "Prevailing Community Standards" ... 144
- We're cool
too, Daddy-O [Marvel's Comix Book] ... 150-153
6. Girls on Top: Wimen's comix ... 154
- Chin Lively's Tits & Clits ... 164
- Kitchen fantasies ... 167
- Brit grrrls ... 174
- Carol Bennet's Fanny ... 174
- Zippy the
Pinhead ... 176-177
7. Anarchy in the UK: Blimey, it's the
limeys ... 178
- It's a set-up, man ... 183
- If you'e got it, flaunt it! ... 183
- Cozmic Comics ... 188
- Talbot's journey into delirium ... 190
- Hunt Emerson and Ar:Zak Comix ... 193
- Near myths ... 194
- Taking the Pssst! ... 197
- There's no escape ... 198
- Savoy Books: bad to the bone ... 199
- Toilet humour ... 200
- Knockabout ... 206
- A skinhead thalidomide ... 210
- The Maus that
RAWed ... 214-217
8. Where have all the Flower Children
Gone?: Long time passing, long time ago ... 218
- Art so fine it'll blow your mind ... 221
- Pirates to the end ... 225
- Kinney: From anarchy to spiritualism ... 226
- Ex-tax Jax and his Tex text ... 229
- Dope springs eternal ... 231
- Crumb tit-bits ... 233
- The publishing people ... 234
- The Brit brigade ... 234
- It ain't wat you say... ... 236
- Welch, Emerson & Talbot ... 237
- Pop Goes the Artist! ... 238-241
9. Children of the Revolution: The kids are
alright ... 242
- I spy for the FBI ... 244
- So, sue me ... 244
- Los bros ... 248
- Weirdos ... 250
- Pure hate ... 250
- Cool Cat Clowes ... 253
- Tumor humour ... 255
- Comics journalism ... 255
- Show me the money! ... 256
- Independent survivor ... 258
- Canuck comix ... 258
- Not so funny animal ... 261
- Drawn & Quarterly ... 262
- Evolution ... 262
- RAW talent ... 263
- Art for Art's sake? ... 265
- Rise of the independents ... 265
- Unconventional conventions ... 266
- Comix Go
Arthouse ... 268-271
- The Cartoon
History of the Universe ... 272-273
Comix
Checklist ... 274
Index ... 282
Bibliography ... 286