A panel of local artists and cartoonists came together at this year’s Emerald City Comic Con to discuss the history of Seattle’s underground comics scene, from its origins in the late 1980s to ...

STAUNTON — In January, on one of the coldest days of the year when the temperatures didn't get out of the 20s, Ryan Brosmer held his first Staunton Underground Comics and Zine Fest. It went ...

In honor of our Independent Lens documentary No Straight Lines, the colorful story of groundbreaking queer comic book artists who went from underground comics to mainstream acceptance, we reached ...

Unforgettable graphic novels like Maus, Persepolis, and American Splendor were iconic memoirs that elevated the genre and ...

Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” was featured in the comic book “Funny Aminals” in 1972, ... - This is an underground comic that came out in 1972, "Funny Aminals." I was in it, ...

The underground comics phenomenon is “a weird, parallel thing of my generation now coming to the surface,” Crumb said. “When I started putting out the comic strips, people popped up all over.

A new documentary about underground comics pioneer Denis Kitchen has raised over $26,000 on Kickstarter - more than five times its original goal - with just 9 hours remaining in the crowdfunding ...

Mr. Nadel has—as Terry Zwigoff had in his landmark documentary “Crumb” (1994)—a cooperative subject. The author’s response to the unhinged quality of Mr. Crumb’s art (and life) is a ...

The Staunton Underground Comics and Zine Fest (SUCZ Fest) returns Saturday, Jan. 18, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Gypsy Hill Park gymnasium. Ryan Brosmer began organizing the fest a year ago and next ...

There will be a comics and art market from 11 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. and readings and music that evening from 6:30 p.m. until 9 p.m. Brosmer is a cartoonist, writer, and illustrator who has ...

A new PBS documentary shines a light on the trailblazing LGBTQ artists making underground comics and strips in the 1970s and the ’80s. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our ...

Underground comics are no longer underground. Maus, the masterpiece about the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman that began as an obscure strip in the 1980s in the comics anthology Raw, is now taught in ...