UNDERGROUND COMIX
WARNING: EXTREMELY EXPLICIT CONTENT!
Underground comix are small presses or self-published comic books which are often socially related or naturally sarcastic, and their depicting content is forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority. This includes the explicit drug use, sexuality and violence.
Comix, in which x stands for x-rated, was majorly created by a group of humorous, hippie inspired people whose main influence was based on the anti-censorship reaction to the imposed 'comics code' or to put it simply, anti-comic law, dated back to 1950s post WWII growing society.
Comix, in which x stands for x-rated, was majorly created by a group of humorous, hippie inspired people whose main influence was based on the anti-censorship reaction to the imposed 'comics code' or to put it simply, anti-comic law, dated back to 1950s post WWII growing society.
DRUGS
Zap Comix
R. Crumb's Zap Comic was one of the most well-known comixes published in the 1968 while R.Crump himself was the most influential comix figure. The iconic 60s cartoonist explained that his unique style was developed immediately after an LSD experience. He then moved to San Francisco's Haight-Asbury (the famous street for drug users), discarded all job offers and started penning drug-inspired doodles which explored politics, sex and drugs within the 60's youth counter-culture movement. His work, challenging the mainstreams, helped nurture the artistry of comics during the dark age of censorship and has inspired the rising of indie comics and creator-own books as well as the 'mainstream' producers to start telling more mature stories.
SEXUALITY
Cunt Comics
Cunt Comics is probably the most notorious title of all comix in the history. Created by Rory Hayes, the same author of the famous Bogeyman, it contains the same intense crudity but with no stories yet rather a series of raw, graphic and often brutally violence scenes with naked men and women. His feelings of isolation, distrust, anger and fear from his recently experienced childhood towards immature relationships with the opposite sex were translated. Though as offensive as some of the cartoons are, they are also very funny and revealing at times.
"In the early 70s, I did a lot of drugs, speed and acid", said Hayes. And he contributed to the underground comics throughout the decade.
"Cunt Comics was the lowest" mentioned in Organ magazine, but perhaps it was too hot for the world to see.
VIOLENCE
Ghost
The Coming Of Kok
Bizarre Sex
Most underground comics are, to some extent, the combination of sex and violent in nature. Cunt Comics would be one of the most violent comics that involved sex. Another violent-sex comix is Bizarre Sex, displaying oversized sex organs invading the town, while the other brutal comics are The Coming Of Kok and Ghost that focus on less sexual content including the two multi-armed female ghosts stabbing several men.
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