Dirty Pictures
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 t...
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 t...
