Grab your beret and your mimeograph machine, true believer — underground comix are one of the wildest, most rebellious chapters in the whole history of the medium!
What Are Underground Comics?
Underground comics are self-published or small-press works that emerged primarily in the late 1960s and 1970s, outside the mainstream Marvel/DC system and free from the restrictive Comics Code Authority. Pioneers like Robert Crumb (Zap Comix), Gilbert Shelton (The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers), and S. Clay Wilson pushed boundaries with adult humor, psychedelia, politics, and social satire. The movement thrived in counterculture hubs like San Francisco and gave birth to the alternative/indie comics scene we know today — influencing everything from Art Spiegelman's Maus to modern Image titles. We do carry Ruhrpott Underground Comics (1987) from bs-press, a German underground publication that shows just how global the underground movement became!
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