The Tijuana Bibles: America's Forgotten Comic Strips #[nn]

Fantagraphics shines a spotlight on one of underground comics history's most underground artifacts with this 2009 collection, The Tijuana Bibles: America's Forgotten Comic Strips. Pat Moriarity's cover art sets the tone perfectly — a raucous, raunchy bedroom scene featuring a gruff older man and a reclining blonde woman exchanging blunt dialogue rendered in bold lettering, all framed in the style of the crude eight-pagers the book celebrates. It's an unapologetic, affectionately crafted tribute to a genuinely marginal corner of American cartooning that deserves exactly this kind of serious, well-produced attention.