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Underground comics


  • Comics that depict content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality, and violence.

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    • Underground comics

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    • Underground comix

  • Broader Terms

    • Comics (Graphic works)

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    • found: Comiclopedia, via WWW, Dec. 6, 2012:Underground comix and the underground press (The late 1960s saw the emergence of underground comics, a new wave of humorous, hippie-inspired comic books that dealt with social and political subjects like sex, drugs, rock music and anti-war protest. For this reason, these new comics became known as "comix" to set them apart from mainstream comics and to emphasize the "x" for x-rated. A major underground influence was the anti-censorship reaction to the imposed 'comics code'. In the 1950s, there had been a crusade against comics (especially those published by E.C. Comics), which had inspired the passing of the Comics Code, a set of rules to which comics creators had to adhere.)
    • found: Wikipedia, Dec. 6, 2012(Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence. They were most popular in the United States between 1968 and 1975, and in the United Kingdom between 1973 and 1974.)

  • General Notes

    • Comics that depict content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality, and violence.

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    • 2014-12-01: new
    • 2015-12-21: revised

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