The Journal of Popular Culture

A single-issue comic from 1977, The Journal of Popular Culture is an oddity: a satirical academic journal presented as a comic book, published by a shifting collective of small presses. Writer-artist George Erling crafts a deadpan parody of scholarly pop-culture analysis, blending faux-intellectual essays with cartoon illustrations. Its brief, one-shot existence makes it a curious artifact of the underground comix era’s willingness to experiment with form and humor.