The Underground Comix Movement

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• JE

  @jennifermax2927 · 6 years ago (edited)

  My dad passed away recently and he left me his collection of underground comix. He never let me see them when I was a kid and I had no idea how sizable his collection was. Tons of Bizzare Sex, Slow Death, Doctor Atomic, and Checkered Demon. Plus a bunch of Zippy, and Zap. Amazing stuff and I wish there would be a modern comix revival.

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• WI

  @willbrink · 3 months ago

  While other kids were reading Superman and related, I was reading Zap comix, Heavy Metal, etc, in the 70s. I had to get on the subway and go to the one store in the West Village to get them. The were in the general catagory of Underground Comics, but Zap was really the core of it.

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• JO

  @joestrike8537 · 4 years ago

  I got rid of my entire comics collection I had accumulated from 1970 thru &apos;80, around Y2K, don&apos;t miss any of them...except the box full of undergrounds. So <b>many</b> stories I fondly remember from those books that I will never see again. [Insert sobbing emoji here]

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• JA

  @Jamesharveycomics · 6 years ago

  Indie comics then: breaking taboos<br>Indie comics now: reinforcing taboos

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• SI

  @sirmount2636 · 6 years ago

  Your videos are of an entirely different caliber. You educate &amp; entertain us about subjects that no other channel will, in a way no other channel will. We don’t deserve you!

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• PE

  @pendafen7405 · 4 years ago (edited)

  As a younger female I used to love Welz&apos;s &apos;Cherry&apos;, because it felt celebratory and defiant as well as exciting. Years later, I still feel that way, though with maturity and life experience, I can recognise troubling facets of the plots &amp; characters too (see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3wBqzg8bs0&amp;t=428">7:08</a>). The art holds up.

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• KO

  @Koopaklown · 6 years ago

  Love it! This one speaks to me since I&apos;ve made my own handmade indie/underground comics for me and my friends to enjoy back in school.

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• TA

  @talsine · 6 years ago

  I wish most of the comics chanels out there were half as creative and interesting in both their subject matter and delivery of content as your channel is. I can&apos;t wait till next time. Also, i would love more Doom Patrol!

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• ED

  @edward2962 · 6 years ago

  Awesome video! I&apos;d also like to add that another thing that lead to demise of the 60-70&apos;s generation of Undergrounds is that many of them were sold at Head Shops ( stores that sold drug paraphernalia and other counter culture material) and in the mid-70&apos;s law enforcement really started to crack down on such places.

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• DO

  @dont-want-no-wrench · 3 years ago

  the 60&apos;s were a kind of unique time. we may see something like it again someday, but whether that is a good thing or not, we leave to history to decide

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• PA

  @paulnash9851 · 6 years ago

  Freewheelin&apos; Franklin sez &quot;Groovy, nice mellow video man... &quot; In all seriousness, so glad you are still around and here.

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• IT

  @itszackempire · 6 years ago

  A great video! I&apos;ve always felt that another reason the &quot;underground&quot; comics of that era started to wein, was because they were repeating subject matter over and over again. There was a similar situation with all the autobiographical comics around the 2000&apos;s. It was a lot if the same stuff over and over, and people became disinterested. You can really see this in Crumb&apos;s work where there is a point that he seems to have no idea what he is doing, until he moves past all the drugs and sex, and starts going in to social commentary.

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