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 of…
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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).
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