Underground Comics!

If you are a woman make sure to read Tits and Clits! Tits and Clits was just one of the several over sexualized, pot smoking, ridiculous comics that was produced during the late 60’s and early 70’s. Underground comics were the biggest thing during this time, most ‘head’ shops were offering these comics to their buyers, but after the anti paraphernalia laws most head shops stop selling these comics and the comics moved into a thing we know today, alternative comics.

People that were experimenting with the new drug LSD were the main creators and readers of the underground comic world. That’s why most buyers of these comics were introduced at their head shop. The artist wanted people to view their comics while under the influence to maybe get a better understanding of the comic or just to make the reader really relate to what he or she is seeing. Some of my all time favorite are Mr. Natural, which

Was created by Robert Crumb. He had another amazing comic called Fritz the Cat, which is just incredible. Fritz is this college student who basically lives in this society were he just completely does the wrong thing all the time.

I think these comics were introduced at this time, because of the war and all the resistance we had with our government. I think artist at this time wanted to be able to create their work in a way to have a rebellion feel to it. Most people at this time were protesting the Vietnam War and wanting to make love not war. These comics are extremely offensive and really have no boundaries, which make them so enjoyable. People were allowed to write and draw whatever they wanted, which really opened the door to some really insane things. One of my favorite drawings that Robert Crumb had done at this time was a self portrait that said, “I’m not here to be polite”, which basically sums up the entire era of underground comics.