DENIS KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL: UNDERGROUND COMIX PIONEER KEEPS ON TRUCKIN’
By Alan Bisbort Denis Kitchen is, in my view, the Stan Lee of underground comix. While Lee’s Marvel...
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DAVID GREENBERGER: BEYOND DUPLEX PLANET
What began in 1979 for David Greenberger as a D.I.Y. newsletter for the residents at a Boston nursing...
WHAT IT IS: LYNDA BARRY AND THE WHY OF COMICS
We can’t think of anyone more deserving of a MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ than cartoonist Lynda Barry, who was...
BASIL WOLVERTON: AMERICA’S WEIRDEST ARTIST
Cartoonist Basil Wolverton (1909-1978) cast a large, if sometimes unrecognized, shadow over the underground comix of the 1960s...
DIANE NOOMIN: UNDERGROUND COMIX ARTIST GOES FROM TWISTED SISTER TO EMPOWERING WOMEN
As co-editor (with Aline Kominsky-Crumb) of the all-female Twisted Sisters Comics in the 1970s and 1980s, Diane Noomin...
WHEN COMIX MET PUNK: ROBERT CRUMB’S “WEIRDO”
Comics historian Jon B. Cooke has whipped up a Please Kill Me-like oral history of underground comix of...