Tuesday, December 6, 2011

FINAL underground comix post




Our three posters represent the Underground Comic Movement - where it predominately took place, a focus on one of the influential artists - Robert Crumb, and the "x" poster covered the underground's explicit content - found commonly throughout every page. Some of the most rememberable information that I came across was how important freedom was to the underground artist. It wasn't strictly being raunchy without having a  purpose, they were striving to have freedom of press, to have the freedom to cover any topic that they desired. Through the advancements of the undergrounds, artists did gain never-before sole copyrights, and found that while some judged the content, for the majority the undergrounds celebrated the artists. Being exposed to, and in returning exposing the undergrounds, and its associated "R-rated" topics, is a refreshment from censorship. We felt that all three posters balanced each other; each having a different level of visual information, and substance. Personal favorite within all three posters is our usage of the actual comix that made the undergrounds so monumental.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

underground comix sources

McCleary, John Bassett. Hippipe Dictionary. A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s.Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press. 2004. Print.

RosenKranz, Patrick. Revel Visions, The Underground Comix Revolution 1963 – 1975. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books. 2002. Print.

Wiater, Stanley and Stephen R. Bissette) Comic Book Rebels. Conversations with the Creators of the New Comics. New York: Donald I. Fine, INC. 1993. Print.