Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s #[nn]

This collection gathers a wide selection of Tijuana bibles—the illicit, crudely drawn pornographic comic pamphlets that circulated underground in America from the 1930s through the 1950s. The book presents these forbidden funnies as both a sociological artifact and a form of folk art, examining their crude humor, subversive wit, and the underground distribution networks that kept them alive for decades. It includes reproductions of the original single-panel and multi-panel strips, along with contextual commentary on their place in American popular culture.