The history of underground comics is a long one but if you had to place your finger on a moment in time that helped put the movement on the map it would be the creators of Zap comics in the late 1960's.
With the first issue written and drawn by the now infamous Robert Crumb, Zap grew to include other heavy weights such as
Robert Williams
S. Clay Wilson
and Victor Moscoso
Born out of the San Fran psychedelic explosion this comic explored the absurdist state of mind born from mind altering drugs with ideas literally dripping from the pages straight into the fertile young brains of hipster beatniks.
'Heavy man, like crazy cool junk, you dig?' could be heard along the Haight-Ashbury where any vendor worth his salt would be pushing this controversial kaleidoscope of comic shenanigans.
'Heavy man, like crazy cool junk, you dig?' could be heard along the Haight-Ashbury where any vendor worth his salt would be pushing this controversial kaleidoscope of comic shenanigans.
This has laid the foundation for a long string of adventurous forays into the comic medium which has your stock standard super hero/villain quaking in there tights.
With flights of pure surrealist plot angles and character madness look no further than
and Jeremy Eaton
to the just plain crude, societal punches and kicks of
and Roy Tompkins to name a few
This ever growing rag-tag army of underground greats continue to sharpen their razor blade wit and prowess with the pen and ink to offer the next generation a new voice.
A voice to counter the stale conservative mass media machine that continues to push out more tiresome pop commodities.
Art for art's sake without any marketing agendas or socio demographic pie charts that desperately bend towards profit margins and quietly dispose youth culture of an honest 'fuck you' rebellion against a tirade of corporate yawn material.
So come into Disrupt today, pick up one of these afore mentioned beauties, read it and weep, then laugh your ass off so hard that the cobwebs fall off and before you know it you've been bitch slapped by the underground.
Long live the revolution!
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