COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
A collection of underground comic books and related printed material, spanning from approximately 1948-1978. The collection contains precursors to the genre, including 174 Tiajuana Bibles, individual zines, along with galley proofs and proof books of issues of Zap and Motor City. The collection also features an extensive representation of some of the genre's most celebrated titles such as Zap, Bijou Funnies, Motor City, Mr. Natural, Yellow Dog and dozens of others. Most of the issues come from the original publisher's file at The Print Mint, a major publisher of underground comics based in the San Francisco Bay Area during the genre's heyday (1968-1974), and the first publisher to focus heavily on the underground comix movement. The collection includes works by Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Joel Beck, Vaughn Bode and many others.
Dates
- 1948-1978.
Creator
- Hime, Mark. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Underground comix are small press, underground or self-published comic books which often present alternative or counter cultural viewpoints. Subjects frequently include alternative lifestyles, satirical challenges to middle-class values and mainstream culture, with regular appearances of recreational drug use, nudity, disrespect for authority, rock n' roll, political dissent, or gratuitous sex and violence. These topics resonated with youth culture of the 1960s and 70s, which set itself at odds with mainstream adult America. Several of the titles present in this collection, such as Horseshit, Zap, Snatch, and the SCUM Manifesto, were banned by various local authorities, resulting in the arrests of some publishers and news dealers for publishing pornography.
Extent
3.3 cubic feet. (3.3 cubic feet.)
Abstract
A collection of underground comic books and related printed material, spanning from approximately 1948-1978. The collection contains precursors to the genre, including 174 Tiajuana Bibles, individual zines, along with galley proofs and proof books of issues of Zap and Motor City. The collection also features an extensive representation of some of the genre's most celebrated titles such as Zap, Bijou Funnies, Motor City, Mr. Natural, Yellow Dog and dozens of others. Most of the issues come from the original publisher's file at The Print Mint, a major publisher of underground comics based in the San Francisco Bay Area during the genre's heyday (1968-1974), and the first publisher to focus heavily on the underground comix movement. The collection includes works by Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin, Joel Beck, Vaughn Bode and many others.
Physical Description
Printed materials, publications.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- July 2018
- EAD encoding:
- Jude Corina, July 2018
- American wit and humor, Pictorial.
- Beck, Joel.
- Bodé, Vaughn, 1941-1975.
- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Political aspects.
- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects.
- Comics (Graphic works).
- Counterculture.
- Crumb, R.
- Erotic comic books, strips, etc.
- Erotic stories, American.
- Feminism > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Freedom of the press.
- Griffin, Rick.
- Hippies.
- Moscoso, Victor.
- Popular culture.
- Psychedelic art.
- Radicalism.
- Social history.
- Subculture.
- Underground comics.
- Underground press publications.
- Women -- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- July 2018
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu