Crumb's work was called sexist, racist, and obscene, but even his critics often acknowledged that he was hilarious and ...

Underground comic book artist Robert Crumb created ZAP COMIX and is the artist behind such 1960s and 1970s icons as Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, and Keep-on-Truckin. His wife, Aline Kominsky Crumb, was ...

Diane Noomin was a pioneering female voice in the revolutionary underground comics scene of the 1960s, but she also never stopped speaking out. The artist and writer — who lived the last 34 years of ...

Underground cartoonist Manuel “Spain” Rodriguez was a provocateur by nature. Deeply shaped by his working-class upstate New York upbringing and socialist politics, Rodriguez’s artwork reflects an ...

Justin Green, a Chicago native whose early underground comix of the 1960s and 1970s influenced several generations of artists to adapt their most painful personal experiences into comics, died ...

The 1960s were a comparably innocent time for comics. They were still considered little more than children’s entertainment. Marvel’s stories attracted older readers but still told the kinds of stories ...