Dirty Pictures How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09XVKF6M4 | 2022 | 15 hours and 23 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 436 MB
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 Embraced by hippies and legions of future creatives, this subgenre of comic books and strips was printed on out-of-date machinery, published in zines and underground newspapers, and distributed in head shops, in porno stores, and on street corners.