The String Gatherer

A creature of the underground comix world, The String Gatherer surfaced in the pages of High Times Magazine in 1977, conjured by the irreverent duo of Gilbert Shelton and Dave Sheridan — two of the most celebrated names in the countercultural comics scene. This Bronze Age oddity drifted through a handful of the era's most brazenly adult anthology titles, from Bizarre Sex to Tits & Clits, the kind of publications that Kitchen Sink Press championed with gleeful defiance of mainstream comics conventions. Rare appearances make The String Gatherer a genuine curiosity for collectors of underground comix, a small but authentically weird thread in the rich, unruly tapestry that Shelton and his contemporaries wove outside the newsstand mainstream.