Eight-pagers (Comic books)

Here are entered works about small, oblong pornographic comics clandestinely published in the United States between the 1920s and 1960s that usually parodied popular newspaper comic strip characters or celebrities.

found: Work cat.: Adelman, B. Tijuana bibles : art and wit in America's forbidden funnies,1930s-1950s, 1997:Introd. (They were clandestinely produced and distributed small booklets that chronicled the explicit sexual adventures of America's beloved comic-strip characters, celebrities, and folk heroes...these books might have been called Tijuana Bibles as a gleefully sacrilegious pre-NAFTA slur against Mexicans, to throw G-men off the trail, or because the West Coast border towns were an important supplier of all sorts of sin. In other regions of America they were also known as eight-pagers, two-by-fours, gray-backs, bluesies, Jo-Jo books, Tillie-and-Mac books, or simply as fuck books) (OCoLC)37369110

found: Gilmore, D. H. Sex in comics : a history of the eight pagers, 1971v.1 p.11 (The eight pagers were what is known as back door publications, created, printed and sold on an informal, underground basis) p.15 (Our history of the eight-page erotic comics begins in 1930) (OCoLC)20457505

found: Sex and humor : selections from the Kinsey Institute, 2002:p. 14 (In any event, sometime about the end of the 1920s or the very early 1930s the first eight-pagers made their appearance. They were small booklets, measuring approximately four and a half inches horizontally and three inches vertically. Some contained eight leaves printed on one side while others consisted of four leaves printed on both sides. Hence the designation 'eight-pager' for both formats had eight printed pages) (OCoLC)47092370

found: Encyclopedia of comic books and graphic novels, 2010:v.2 p. 544 (The Tijuana Bible is one of the most neglected forms of satire in the comics. Within the framework of these 8 to 16-page pornographic comic books lurked scathing commentary on actors, politicians, and comic characters) (OCoLC)743250920

found: LCGFT, Sept. 27, 2021(Tijuana bibles. UF Bibles, Tijuana; Bluesies (Tijuana bibles); Eight-pagers (Tijuana bibles); Gray-backs (Tijuana bibles); Jiggs-and-Maggie books; Jo-jo books; Sixteen-pagers (Tijuana bibles); Tillie & Mac books; Tillie-and-Mac books; Two-by-fours (Tijuana bibles). BT Humorous comics; Pornographic comics; Underground comics)

found: Genre terms : a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging, via WWW, Sept. 27, 2021(Tijuana bibles. Use for small, oblong comic books, clandestinely published in the U.S. between the 1930s and 1950s and parodying figures of popular culture in explicit sexual situations. UF Bluesies; Eight-pagers; Sixteen-pagers. BT Comic books)

Here are entered works about small, oblong pornographic comics clandestinely published in the United States between the 1920s and 1960s that usually parodied popular newspaper comic strip characters or celebrities.