Underground Comix

For this weeks reading I chose to read The comics by Robert Crumb and the Arcade Comics Review. I have to say these were not what I expected from underground comics. They all have no real imitations on what they express so there was plenty of nudity, cursing and racial stereotypes in these ones. I can understand the idea behind why these exist. For the time they were an important part of the counter culture and showing that there were alternatives to the comics in their days. Very weird stories involving men having sex with sasquaches and other odd kinds of slice of life stories. While some of these were actually fairly entertaining they really werent for me. I don't really go for that kind of reading material in my comics, thats not to say I dont get why they were made or I think they should have been banned or restricted, these comics were just not my cup of tea subject matter wise. I do however think that the illustrations in them were very weird but very cool to look at. Lots of pretty psychedelic drawings and unrefined scribbles that were all pretty charming to me. It showed what the people that drew and wrote these comics thought about and deemed important enough for mockery.