Book description
The first complete narrative history of Underground Comix, the countercultural movement from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s that forever changed comics
In Dirty Pictures: How Nerds, Feminists, Bikers, and Potheads Revolutionized Comix, author and journalist Brian Doherty tells the wild history of the outlaw, outsider, and sometimes illegal world…
- Coming soon!
Why read it?
1 author picked Dirty Pictures as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a cartoonist myself, and one with a deep interest in the underground comix era, I thought I knew plenty already. Turns out, there was (like pretty much every other topic you could name) way more that I didn't know, and Brian Doherty's meticulously researched Dirty Pictures had tons to impart to me, including scads of detail about the personal drama, feuds, etc., in the bristly comix community of that era (late 60s - 70s, mostly).
If you love Dirty Pictures...
These Blue Mountains
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
Want books like Dirty Pictures?
Our community of 13,000+ authors has personally recommended 7 books like Dirty Pictures.
📚 If you like Dirty Pictures, you might also like...
Need to Know
The authoritative but accessible history of the birth of modern American intelligence in World War II that treats not just one but all of the various disciplines: spies, codebreakers, saboteurs.
Told in a relatable style that focuses on actual people, it was a New Yorker "Best of 2022" selection and…
Tsunami
On the morning of December 26, 2004, an undersea earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. The resulting tsunami killed an estimated 230,000 people across fourteen countries, from Indonesia to Sri Lanka to Thailand to the Maldives to India and all the way to East Africa.…