Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix - Hardcover

Kitchen, Denis; Danky, James

 
9780810905986: Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0810905981 ISBN 13: 9780810905986
Publisher: Abrams ComicArts, 2009

Synopsis

The impact of American underground comix is profound: They galvanized artists both domestically and abroad; they forever changed the economics of comic book publishing; and they influenced generations of cartoonists, including their predecessors. While the works of Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman are well-known via the New Yorker, Maus, and retrospective collections, the art of their contemporaries such as Gilbert Shelton, Trina Robbins, Justin Green, Kim Deitch, S. Clay Wilson, and many other seminal cartoonists who came of age in the 1960s is considerably less known.Underground Classics provides the first serious survey of underground comix as art, turning the spotlight on these influential and largely underappreciated artists. Essays from curators James Danky and Denis Kitchen, alongside essays by Paul Buhle, Patrick Rosenkranz, Jay Lynch, and Trina Robbins, offer a thorough reflection and appraisal of the underground movement. Over 125 original drawings, paintings, sculptures, and artifacts are featured, loaned from private collections and the artists themselves, making Underground Classics indispensible for the seriousminded comics fan and for the casual reader alike.

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About the Author

Denis Kitchen, cartoonist, writer, editor, publisher and entrepreneur, was present at the birth of the underground comics movement. From his first self-published effort, Mom's Homemade Comics No. 1 in 1968, Kitchen has worked with every important artist active in producing underground comix. This long relationship with other artists, many of whom he published through Krupp Comics Works and Kitchen Sink Press, is the basis for both the exhibition and this catalogue.

From the Back Cover

The impact of American underground comix is profound: They galvanized artists both domestically and abroad; they forever changed the economics of comic book publishing; and they influenced generations of cartoonists, including their predecessors. While the works of Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman are well-known via the New Yorker, Maus, and retrospective collections, the art of their contemporaries such as Gilbert Shelton, Trina Robbins, Justin Green, Kim Deitch, S. Clay Wilson, and many other seminal cartoonists who came of age in the 1960s is considerably less known.
'Underground Classics' provides the first serious survey of underground comix as art, turning the spotlight on these influential and largely underappreciated artists. Essays from curators James Danky and Denis Kitchen, alongside essays by Paul Buhle, Patrick Rosenkranz, Jay Lynch, and Trina Robbins, offer a thorough reflection and appraisal of the underground movement. Over 125 original drawings, paintings, sculptures, and artifacts are featured, loaned from private collections and the artists themselves, making 'Underground Classics' indispensible for the seriousminded comics fan and for the casual reader alike.

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Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0810905981
ISBN 13 
9780810905986
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144