Pedestrian Vulgarity

Dennis Worden’s Pedestrian Vulgarity is a single-issue, ongoing series from Fantagraphics that launched in 1990, a raw and confrontational underground comic strip collection. Worden, who handles both writing and art, delivers a deliberately crude, scabrous humor that skewers suburban banality and social hypocrisy with a punk-rock sensibility. Its significance lies in its uncompromising, lowbrow aesthetic—a defiant artifact of the early-’90s alternative comics scene that refuses to be polite.