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DIRTY PICTURES - BRIAN DOHERTY KARTONIERT (TB)

Journalist and comic book critic Brian Doherty’s Dirty Pictures is the first complete narrative
history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comix—”a welcome addition to an
under-analyzed legacy of the free-spirited 1960s” (San Francisco Chronicle). In the 1950s 
comics meant POW!BAM! superheroes  family-friendly gags  and Sunday funnies  but in the 1960s 
inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine  a new generation of creators set out
to subvert the medium  and with it  American culture. Their comix”—spelled that way to
distinguish the work from their dime-store contemporaries—presented tales of taboo sex  casual
drug use  and a transgressive view of society. Embraced by hippies and legions of future
creatives  this subgenre of comic books and strips often ran afoul of the law  but that would
not stop them from casting cultural ripples for decades to come  eventually moving the entire
comics form beyond the gutter and into fine-art galleries. Brian Doherty weaves together the
stories of R. Crumb  Art Spiegelman  Trina Robbins  Spain Rodriguez  Harvey Pekar  and Howard
Cruse  among many others  detailing the complete narrative history of this movement. Through
dozens of new interviews and archival research  he chronicles the scenes that sprang up around
the country in the 1960s and ‘70s  beginning with the artists’ origin stories and following
them through success and strife  and concluding with an examination of these creators’
legacies. Dirty Pictures is the essential exploration of a truly American art form that
recontextualized the way people thought about war  race  sex  gender  and expression.

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