Young Lust
Last Gasp · 1977–1993 · 4 issues
About the series
Running for four issues between 1977 and 1993 from publisher Last Gasp, Young Lust was a satirical underground anthology that skewered the clichés and commercialism of romance comics. Most closely associated with the irreverent talents of Bill Griffith, Daniel Clowes, and Jay Kinney—who wrote and drew across the series—it parodied the genre’s breathless melodrama with a sharp, countercultural edge. A key artifact of the underground comix movement, it mattered for turning a sentimental, mainstream staple into a vehicle for pointed social commentary.
