Underground
The wider American underground between roughly 1965 and 1975, sold through head shops rather than newsstands: Bijou, Slow Death, Rory Hayes, and Justin Green's Binky Brown, which put autobiography into comics before the word was used.
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- - Concert advertisement. Display advertisement set and printed inside the Barb, an example of the music-listing income that kept the underground weeklies solvent.
- - Barb front page, February 1967. Top of the front page for 17 February 1967, with a headline naming two members of the Lovin’ Spoonful as informants in a drug case.
- - Smoke-in was a Success. Illustration for the Barb’s running joke that banana peels were hallucinogenic, a hoax the paper pushed in March 1967 and which was reported straight by several national outlets before being debunked.
- - Helix, 23 March 1967. Multiple mastheads including Ray Collins' 'Peeping Fred Lives' across the front page of 23 March 1967.
- - Helix, 13 April 1967. Masthead, Id Bust, UDM, etc, drawn by Jacques Moitoret for the issue of 13 April 1967.
- - Helix, 27 April 1967. Maryl Clemmens supplied the front page for 27 April 1967. The image: Chief Seattle Flower Potlatch poster.
- - Helix, 16 May 1967. Issue of 16 May 1967. Cover art by Walt Crowley: Peace/War Diptich.
- - Helix, 6 June 1967. 6/11 Volunteer Park Be-In Poster with Native American fronts the 6 June 1967 number, signed by Gary Eagle.
- - Helix, 23 June 1967. The 23 June 1967 issue leads with this cover. 'U.S. Invaded' parody.
- - Helix, 10 July 1967. Cover drawing by William Ward for 10 July 1967. Figures with torch, 'Needle'.
- - Helix, 27 July 1967. Cartoon of U District scenes, printed as the cover for 27 July 1967.
- - Helix, 16 August 1967. Robot with tombstone, drawn by Walt Crowley for the issue of 16 August 1967.
- - Helix, 1 September 1967. William Ward supplied the front page for 1 September 1967. The image: Drawing of Bob Dylan with grass.
- - Helix, 15 September 1967. Issue of 15 September 1967. Cover art by Walt Crowley: 'Yakima's Bitter Harvest'.
- - Helix, 29 September 1967. Vitruvian Man / Open Door Clinic fronts the 29 September 1967 number, signed by Walt Crowley.
- - Helix, 17 October 1967. Cover drawing by Walt Crowley for 17 October 1967. Apocalypse (and draft induction), flower child with fireworks (flopped double cover). First few.
- - Helix, 2 November 1967. 'Super Cop', 'Oversex' mezzotint (double cover), drawn by Walt Crowley for the issue of 2 November 1967.
- - Helix, 16 November 1967. Front page of 16 November 1967. Napoleon postcards and cartoons.
- - Helix, 1 December 1967. Jacques Moitoret supplied the front page for 1 December 1967. The image: 3-color process butterfly nymph.
- - Helix, 11 December 1967. Issue of 11 December 1967. Cover art by William Ward: Meher Baba / Interesting particulars (double cover).
- - Helix, 4 January 1968. 'Zeus' / 'Helix Calendar' (double cover) fronts the 4 January 1968 number, signed by R. Allen Jensen.
- - Helix, 18 January 1968. Cover drawing by Jacques Moitoret for 18 January 1968. Art deco idyll '20 cents the Copy'.
- - Helix, 1 February 1968. Tortured figure (W. Blake) and headlines across the front page of 1 February 1968.
- - Helix, 15 February 1968. Hippie chicks, drawn by Paul Dorpat for the issue of 15 February 1968.
- - Helix, 29 February 1968. William Ward supplied the front page for 29 February 1968. The image: Che Guevara.
- - Helix, 14 March 1968. The 14 March 1968 issue leads with this cover. 'Skip' montage of Tao signs and Escher.
- - Helix, 28 March 1968. Issue of 28 March 1968. Cover art by Walt Crowley: Brain-tree.
- - Helix, April 1968. A page from the Seattle underground paper, whose cover carried a Media Mash poster by Walt Crowley and whose pages mixed anti-war reporting with comics.
- - Helix, 11 April 1968. 'Media Mash / Piano Drop' poster fronts the 11 April 1968 number, signed by Walt Crowley.
- - Helix, 25 April 1968. Paul Dorpat's Country Joe and the Fish poster, printed as the cover for 25 April 1968.
- - Helix, May 1968. An issue covering a Seattle anti-war march and carrying Black Panther Party material, with strip cartoons running between the articles.
- - Helix, 9 May 1968. Cover drawing by Paul Heald for 9 May 1968. Discs on wavy lines.
- - Helix, 24 May 1968. 'Nation That Controls Magnetism', drawn by Walt Crowley for the issue of 24 May 1968.
- - Helix, 7 June 1968. Front page of 7 June 1968. 'Ugly Baby' cover.
- - I Find a Lost 1968 R. Crumb Interview - Comics Archeology - Research in Real Time. An unscripted search through digitised archives turns up a forgotten 1968 interview with Robert Crumb, given while he was working on Zap Comix issue 3. The research method itself, and the databases being queried, are shown as the find happens.
- - Helix, 20 June 1968. Jacques Moitoret supplied the front page for 20 June 1968. The image: Moon, starts, and Helix 'balloon'.
- - Helix, 3 July 1968. Issue of 3 July 1968. Cover art by Walt Crowley: Eagle/tv/fist/bodies.
- - Helix, 18 July 1968. Flowers with toy airplane fronts the 18 July 1968 number, signed by Jacques Moitoret.
- - Helix, 1 August 1968. Mona Lisa, clock, and Beatles across the front page of 1 August 1968.
- - Helix, 15 August 1968. Cover drawing by Walt Crowley for 15 August 1968. Progress' (Sky River Rock Festival poster on reverse).
- - Pigasus. James A. Schreiber drew Pigasus, the pig the Yippies ran for president, for the Berkeley Barb in August 1968. The animal was presented in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention that month.
- - Helix, 29 August 1968. Special Edition: Sky River Rock Festival poster, drawn by Walt Crowley for the issue of 29 August 1968.
- - Helix, 12 September 1968. Paul Dorpat supplied the front page for 12 September 1968. The image: 'Christ is Coming'.
- - Helix, September 1968. Printed on yellow stock with a Shazam Society cover by Larry Heald, this issue reported on the trial of Black Panther members.
- - Helix, 26 September 1968. Issue of 26 September 1968. Cover art by Larry Heald: 'Shazam Society' pyramids etc. on yellow paper.
- - Helix, 3 October 1968. 'Community Not Chaos' poster fronts the 3 October 1968 number, signed by Walt Crowley.
- - Helix, 10 October 1968. Cover drawing by Zac Reisner for 10 October 1968. Cartoon of Seattle building interiors.
- - Helix, 17 October 1968. George Washington dollar portrait, printed as the cover for 17 October 1968.
- - Helix, 24 October 1968. Front page of 24 October 1968. Mayor Dorm Braman 'Conspiracy.'.
- - Helix, 31 October 1968. Cannon 'Ballot' across the front page of 31 October 1968.
- - Helix, 7 November 1968. The 7 November 1968 issue leads with this cover. Nixon 'Bird' and tv images.
- - Helix, 21 November 1968. Greenish-yellow montage with hands and birds, printed as the cover for 21 November 1968.
- - Helix, 27 November 1968. Front page of 27 November 1968. LBJ and Nixon, Safeco sign.
- - Helix, 5 December 1968. Dark blue stress diagram of interlocking gears across the front page of 5 December 1968.
- - Helix with a Crumb strip. This December 1968 issue carries work by Robert Crumb under the name Little Fuzzy, alongside reporting on the arrest of Eldridge Cleaver.
- - Helix, 12 December 1968. The 12 December 1968 issue leads with this cover. Cartoon of stoned kid 'Hey, man I feel goofy.'.
- - Helix, 19 December 1968. Eye floating in red clouds, printed as the cover for 19 December 1968.
- - Helix, late December 1968. A Madonna with Afro cover by Mary Ida Hendrickson fronts an issue that includes an interview with the Chambers Brothers.
- - Helix, 26 December 1968. Madonna with Afro, drawn by Mary Ida Hendrickson for the issue of 26 December 1968.
- - Helix, 9 January 1969. Walt Crowley supplied the front page for 9 January 1969. The image: 'Utopia'.
- - Helix, 16 January 1969. Front page of 16 January 1969. Double image of woman with drapery.
- - Helix, 23 January 1969. Issue of 23 January 1969. Cover art by William Ward: Floating figure with mystical signs.
- - Helix, 30 January 1969. Checkerboard box fronts the 30 January 1969 number, signed by Alan Lande.
- - Helix, 6 February 1969. Reprint of Seattle Union Record cover (50th anniversary of Seattle General Strike) across the front page of 6 February 1969.
- - Helix, 13 February 1969. The 13 February 1969 issue leads with this cover. Rorschach image of woman.
- - Helix, 20 February 1969. Cover drawing by Larry Heald for 20 February 1969. Pyramids, etc.
- - Helix, 28 February 1969. 'Electric Guitar Player' Helix benefit, drawn by Walt Crowley for the issue of 28 February 1969.
- - Helix, 6 March 1969. Sky River Rock mud puddle scene (last Omega-84), printed as the cover for 6 March 1969.
- - Helix, 20 March 1969. Front page of 20 March 1969. Second Anniversary. montage of past covers.
- - Helix, 26 March 1969. Paul Temple supplied the front page for 26 March 1969. The image: 'Prison' photo.
- - Helix, 3 April 1969. Issue of 3 April 1969. Cover art by Bevis: Cartoon of hot dog and hamburger.
- - Helix, 17 April 1969. Cartoon of man blowing up city fronts the 17 April 1969 number, signed by Hans-George Reich.
- - Helix, 24 April 1969. Striated pattern in yellow and red across the front page of 24 April 1969.
- - Helix, 1 May 1969. Cover drawing by Walt Crowley for 1 May 1969. 'May Day' icon.
- - Helix, 8 May 1969. The 8 May 1969 issue leads with this cover. 'Market Faces' photo.
- - Helix, 15 May 1969. 'Problem or Solution' diptych, Alan Lande, drawn by Walt Crowley for the issue of 15 May 1969.
- - People’s Park cover. Front page carrying the Barb’s account of the police and National Guard action at People’s Park, in which one man was killed and more than a hundred injured.
- - Helix, 22 May 1969. Medieval cartoon, printed as the cover for 22 May 1969.
- - Conspiracy Stomp poster. Crumb drew this poster for a benefit event, one of the commercial jobs that ran alongside his comix work in the late 1960s.
- - Helix, 23 October 1969. Milo Johnstone supplied the front page for 23 October 1969. The image: Gabled house.
- - Helix, 30 October 1969. Front page of 30 October 1969. Dark blue skull (two sections).
- - Helix, 6 November 1969. Issue of 6 November 1969. Cover art by Walt Crowley: Cartoon of Edsel being crushed.
- - Helix, 13 November 1969. Montage of drawings of revolutionaries fronts the 13 November 1969 number, signed by Alan Lande.
- - Helix, 27 November 1969. Cover drawing by Walt Crowley for 27 November 1969. Turkey as Great Seal.
- - Helix, 4 December 1969. Santa giving finger, drawn by Ray Collins for the issue of 4 December 1969.
- - Helix, 11 December 1969. Alan Lande. Cover supplied the front page for 11 December 1969. The image: 'Hampton Assassinated!' includes a drawing of Fred Hampton who was assassinated on December 4, 1969. He is also discussed in a.
- - Helix, 18 December 1969. Issue of 18 December 1969. Cover art by Walt Crowley: Karl Marx as Santa.
- - Helix, February 1970. A Conspiracy cover by Walt Crowley on an issue reporting on the Seattle Black Panther Party, near the end of the paper's run.
- - '' the berkeley barb '' - film interview with max scherr 1973.. Max Scherr on founding the Berkeley Barb, the underground paper he started in 1965 after selling his bar, and on the low pay and left politics of the staff who filled its pages and its comic strips.
- - Vaughn Bode Toronto Comic Con 1974 Part 1. Vaughn Bode speaks on creator rights, censorship, Stan Lee, the East Village Other and the making of Cheech Wizard, a year before his death in 1975.
- - Wizards (trailer) 1977. Ralph Bakshi's post-apocalyptic animated feature, whose design language draws heavily on Vaughn Bode's Cobalt 60 without formal credit, is sold on rotoscoped battle scenes and airbrushed fantasy.
- - Jack Katz - November 6, 1979 - KGO-TV. Jack Katz and his wife Carolyn discuss The First Kingdom, the self-directed epic he serialised through Comic & Comix and Bud Plant from 1974, on San Francisco television.
- - Mullaney and Friedrich. Two publishers who paid royalties and left creators their rights, the practice that made an independent sector possible.
- - Lee Marrs. Creator of The Further Fattening Adventures of Pudge, Girl Blimp, begun in 1973, and one of the founders of Wimmen's Comix.
- - Marrs in conversation. Photographed mid-sentence away from the panel table.
- - Marrs seated. A quieter frame of the cartoonist during the convention's programme.
- - Kim Deitch and Dean Mullaney. Deitch drew for the East Village Other from 1967 and stayed with the underground long after its distribution collapsed. Mullaney founded Eclipse Comics in 1978.
- - Friedrich and Marrs. Mike Friedrich published Star*Reach from 1974, paying creators and leaving them their copyrights, a bridge between the underground and what became independent comics. Lee Marrs came out of the Bay Area underground.
- - a rare Zippy Pinhead tribute from 1985. Craig Scoffone's spoof of public access television built around Zippy the Pinhead, with Bill Hoffman in the costume and a host character invented for the occasion.
- - Confessions of Robert Crumb - Clip 2 of 3. Robert Crumb on marriage, drugs and the Haight-Ashbury years, from the BBC film he narrated and scripted about himself.
- - Confessions of Robert Crumb - Clip 1 of 3. The opening of Crumb's self-narrated BBC film, in which he introduces his own sexual obsessions as the material his drawing runs on, a candour critics have read ever since as either confession or provocation.
- - Harvey Pekar Collection on Letterman, 1986-1994. Harvey Pekar's run of late-night appearances, from the first American Splendor plugs through the on-air arguments over General Electric that ended the invitations.
- - R. Crumb Playboy TV Interview featuring Aline (1989). A 1989 television interview with Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, the pair answering questions together about their work and their marriage.
- - Bill Griffith & Zippy, 1989. Bill Griffith on Zippy the Pinhead, cut with Ron Brannan performing the character in live action around San Francisco and singing I'm Zippy, Who Are You.
- - 1991 Conspiracy Comics Marilyn Monroe TV news report. A local news magazine covers Conspiracy Comics and its Marilyn Monroe issue from San Diego's Revolutionary Comics, the unauthorised-biography publisher behind Rock 'N' Roll Comics.
- - Last of the roll. The final frame from the 1991 portrait sequence.
- - Peter Pontiac. Pontiac drew for the Dutch underground and music press from the 1970s, his line dense and scratched in a way that owed more to Crumb than to the album trade. He died in 2015.
- - Half turn. Pontiac photographed in profile during the same session.
- - Portrait, second frame. From the same 1991 sitting, the cartoonist shifting position for the photographer.
- - Looking away. Another exposure from the sequence, taken in the same room.
- - Hands and face. A closer frame from the sitting.
- - CRUMB - Official Trailer (1994). Terry Zwigoff's documentary on Robert Crumb and his brothers is sold on the family interviews, with critics quoted calling it among the strangest films of the year.
- - Bill Griffith S.F. Library talk 1. Bill Griffith gives a slide talk at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, working through strips and the sources he drew them from.
- - Geradts working in vector. A strip detail drawn in Adobe Illustrator by the Dutch cartoonist, who began in the Amsterdam underground of the early 1970s.
- - Alternative Comic Artists Panel Discussion 11 of 11. S. Clay Wilson of Zap, Gilbert Hernandez of Love and Rockets, Reed Waller and Kate Worley of Omaha the Cat Dancer, Jackie Urbanovich and political cartoonist Pete Wagner sit on a panel about comic art and cartooning. Recorded in Minneapolis in 1991 around a travelling Fantagraphics exhibit.
- - Evert Geradts. The founder of Tante Leny Presenteert, the Dutch underground magazine that ran from 1970 to 1978.
- - R Crumb on Bukowski & Drugs. Francoise Mouly questions Robert Crumb on stage about his life, his time in France and his illustrated Book of Genesis, then opens the floor to the audience. Crumb touches on Charles Bukowski and on drugs.
- - Robert Crumb's Creative Process. An excerpt from Terry Zwigoff's 1994 film has Robert Crumb describing how a page gets made, the part LSD played in his drawing, and his wife's account of living with him.
- - Crumb and Jesse. An excerpt from Terry Zwigoff's documentary on Robert Crumb in which Crumb sits with his son Jesse and the two discuss drawing, comparing technical facility against what makes a line feel alive.
- - R. Crumb Q&A at Angouleme 2010 Pt. 1 of 3. Robert Crumb takes audience questions at the Angouleme festival in 2010, the first of three parts.
- - R. Crumb talks about cultural homogeneity. An excerpt from Terry Zwigoff's documentary Crumb, which premiered at Toronto on 10 September 1994, in which Robert Crumb argues about the sameness of American commercial culture.
- - Artist Gilbert Shelton Speaks at Flatstock. Gilbert Shelton recounts interviewing Bob Dylan for a University of Texas publication in 1965 and drawing the Oat Willie's store logo, speaking at a poster show during SXSW.
- - Crumb in Chestertown. The artist speaks about his illustrations during a visit to his sister in Maryland on 9 October 2010.
- - Strandicon: A Celebration of The Comics Journal. Part 4 of 5. Tim Hodler and Dan Nadel discuss The Comics Journal with founding editor Gary Groth as the magazine's thirty-five year archive goes online in 2011.
- - Denis Kitchen in Miami. The Wisconsin cartoonist and publisher at the 2011 Miami Book Fair, four decades after founding Kitchen Sink Press.
- - Sikoryak and Griffith. The parodist R. Sikoryak with Bill Griffith, whose Zippy the Pinhead began in the underground press in 1971.
- - Skip Williamson on Visual Radio with Joe Viglione May 2, 2012. Skip Williamson drew for the Chicago underground and co-founded Bijou Funnies, and speaks at a community television studio in Winchester in May 2012.
- - Crumb - Expo Paris MAM 2012. The Musee d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris mounted the first full retrospective of Robert Crumb's work in 2012, presenting the underground cartoonist inside a fine-art institution.
- - Robert Crumb au Festival d'Angoulême - Archive INA. Robert Crumb presided over the Angouleme festival in January 2000, and this archive report covers the halls, his drawings and his one public concert appearance.
- - Signing The Book of Genesis. Crumb signs his 2009 illustrated Genesis, a literal rendering of the text that he drew over four years.
- - Visiting Writers Series Interview with Kim Deitch. Kim Deitch, who drew The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, explains what Robert Crumb meant to the cartoonists of the 1970s and how his own relationship to the animation industry shaped his work.
- - Justin Green talks about his graphic novel "Binky Brown". Amadora, Portugal, 2012. Justin Green, guest of honour at the Amadora convention in Portugal, stands with the complete original art of Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary from 1972 and explains how the book came about.
- - COMICFESTIVAL MÜNCHEN 2013 - Robert Crumb und Gilbert Shelton im Gespräch mit Gerhard Seyfried. Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton appear together at the Amerika Haus in Munich in May 2013, in conversation with German cartoonist Gerhard Seyfried.
- - Kim Deitch with Caitlin McGurk- CAKE 2013 Programming. Kim Deitch, who appeared in both RAW and Weirdo, talks with Billy Ireland curator Caitlin McGurk about The Adventures of Mister Whiskers and his place among the first underground cartoonists.
- - Moscoso interviewed in San Francisco. The Zap contributor and psychedelic poster artist in conversation with Norman Hathaway at Typo San Francisco 2014.
- - Pekar's grave, Lake View. The Cleveland cemetery plot of the American Splendor writer, who died in 2010.
- - Kitchen at Columbia. Denis Kitchen speaking at Columbia University, where the Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds comics collections.
- - Robert Crumb - FULL INTERVIEW. Robert Crumb answers questions during a May 2015 visit to the publisher Last Gasp in San Francisco, in an uncut recording of the full conversation.
- - Spotlight on Ron Turner, Last Gasp, and Underground Comix Panel at 2016 San Diego Comic Fest. Ron Turner of Last Gasp is interviewed by Michael Dooley about the publisher and the underground comix it carried, the opening quarter of a fifty minute panel.
- - panellogy 106 - underground comix. German Volksverlag anthologies of late 1970s and early 1980s underground comix are pulled off the shelf and read through, with work by Robert Crumb, Tomas Bunk, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson, Greg Irons, Trina Robbins, Jay Kinney, Paul Kirchner, Carlos Gimenez, Rick Geary, Ted Richards, Guy Colwell, George Metzger and Rand Holmes.
- - Virtual Memories Show #175 - Paul Mavrides. Paul Mavrides drew underground comix and worked on the Church of the SubGenius, and recounts among other things trading an issue of Zap for a Jehovah's Witness magazine.
- - Comics: Pushing the Boundaries. Mounted alongside a Zap Comix retrospective, a panel of cartoonists examines what provocation in comics has meant historically and what it means now.
- - Denis Kitchen, underground comix artist, writer, publisher 2009 INTERVIEW. Denis Kitchen talks in 2009 about Harvey Kurtzman, about the transformation of comics into comix, and about the several jobs he has held in the trade at once.
- - Gilbert Shelton at the stage. Gilbert Shelton discusses The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, Wonder Wart-Hog and Not Quite Dead with Jyrki Vainio at the Helsinki comics festival.
- - Underground Comics Legend Jay Lynch - Interview c. 1994 (Raw Audio). Jay Lynch, a Chicago underground cartoonist, was recorded around 1994 for the punk-run Underdog Zine, and the unedited tape runs well past what the printed piece used.
- - 1970 62-page Robert Crumb Original Sketchbook at Heritage Auctions, November 17, 2017. Close views of a 62-page Robert Crumb sketchbook dated 1970, offered at auction, with the pages turned to show drawings and lettering filling the book.
- - panellogy 210 - robert crumb's sketchbooks. The Taschen reissues of Robert Crumb's sketchbooks are examined volume by volume, comparing the different editions and the material each one gathers.
- - Comic Books History Dennis Kitchen and The History Of Underground Comix. Denis Kitchen, founder of Kitchen Sink Press, gives an account of underground comix from the 1960s onward, including how the books reached readers through head shops rather than newsstands. He also discusses working with Will Eisner and writing on Harvey Kurtzman and Al Capp.
- - Crumb, Race and Gender. Jessica Campbell's 2017 Hyperallergic comic The Bad Behavior of Men in Comics rejected Robert Crumb's work outright and drew argument in both directions, and this panel takes up the racial and gender objections to him.
- - Pekar's headstone. The marker at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, the city Pekar wrote about for thirty years without leaving.
- - Comicfestival München 2013 - Vortrag von Denis Kitchen zu Underground Comix. Denis Kitchen lectures on the American underground comix of the late 1960s and 1970s at the Munich comics festival in 2013.
- - Kitchen Sink Press Booth. Denis Kitchen talks from behind the Kitchen Sink Press booth at San Diego Comic-Con, filmed in 1993.
- - Gilbert Shelton and the Underground Comix : EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW (Sous-titres français). Gilbert Shelton traces the Freak Brothers from Austin to San Francisco and describes the hippie scene and his contemporaries Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso and Vaughn Bode.
- - “It was just too disturbing for most people, too weird.” | Robert Crumb | Louisiana Channel. Robert Crumb talks about Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural and the anti-heroes he draws, about his refusal to work inside political correctness, and about the alienation of his youth, when drawing was, he says, his only link to other people.
- - SPX 2019 Panel - Pigheaded Screening. Following a screening of John Kinhart's documentary Pigheaded on underground cartoonist Skip Williamson, cartoonist Lance Ward leads a question session with Kinhart and Williamson's former wife Harriett Hiland about the interviews, animation and archival photographs assembled for the film. The film itself is not included.
- - Robert Crumb Interview on Meditation. Robert Crumb describes his meditation practice, the restlessness he finds when he sits still and his own habit of reaching for distraction, a side of him rarely discussed alongside his drawing.
- - Robert Crumb & Aline Kominsky-Crumb Interview: Drawn Together | Louisiana Channel. Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb appear on stage to discuss nearly fifty years together, their first meeting, and the joint strip in which they drew their own marriage. They note that Crumb was already drawing a character named Honeybunch Kominsky before they met.
- - The Underground Comix Movement. Zap Comix number one appeared in 1968 and opened the period in which underground comix became a movement rather than scattered work.
- - NEAT STUFF by PETER BAGGE Complete Box Set | Fantagraphics | Underground Comix | Comic Books. Peter Bagge's Neat Stuff is surveyed in the Fantagraphics complete box set, covering the run's characters and the production of the collected edition.
- - 4/4/20 Interview with Denis Kitchen 2/2. The second half of an April 2020 conversation with Denis Kitchen on publishing, drawing and the history of the comix trade.
- - Jordan Peterson's Favorite Documentary | Crumb [Criterion Collection]. Jordan Peterson speaks about Robert Crumb and about Terry Zwigoff's 1994 documentary Crumb during an interview, explaining what he takes from the film.
- - Fiction Forum: Kim Deitch | The New School. Kim Deitch began drawing for the East Village Other in 1967 and took over Gothic Blimp Works from Vaughn Bode in 1969, and reads here from Reincarnation Stories.
- - Collection Highlight: Denis Kitchen talks about Pinback Buttons. Kitchen Sink Press issued a Famous Cartoonist button series in 1975, and Denis Kitchen picks through the pinbacks for the Wisconsin Funnies exhibition he co-curated.
- - Comics History 55 Underground Comix part 1. The first part of a lecture on underground comix, covering how the movement formed and what distinguished it from the comic book industry around it.
- - Comics History 57 End of Underground, Rise of Indies. A lecture on the point where the underground comix market collapsed and the independent publishers of the 1980s took over.
- - Online discussion: Robert Crumb & Aleksandar Zograf (4.12.2020.). Robert Crumb and Serbian cartoonist Aleksandar Zograf talk to each other over video for a Zagreb club programme, discussing Crumb's drawing, the underground comix scene he emerged from in the 1960s, and Zograf's own work.
- - Slow Death Zero - Last Gasp's Ron Turner, Colin Turner and Jon B. Cooke. Ron Turner started Last Gasp in 1970 with Slow Death, an underground ecology anthology, and he and Colin Turner and Jon B. Cooke mark a new installment of it.
- - The grave in 2021. Pekar's plot photographed eleven years after his death, still drawing visitors to Lake View Cemetery.
- - Gilbert Shelton_ Interview. Gilbert Shelton created The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat and Wonder Wart-Hog, and this interview survives only because the rest of the production company's footage was dispersed and lost.
- - HGN4 Lecture 21, The Origins of Comix. A lecture on where comix came from, tracing the underground cartoonists back to the MAD magazine they had grown up reading.
- - CANONICALLY CRUMB #7 Whiteman: A Story of Civilization in Crisis #rcrumb #racistcartoons #zapcomix. Whiteman appeared in Zap number one, and this reading works through the strip's meaning and Robert Crumb's use of racial caricature in it.
- - Marvel Comics' DIRTY SECRET -- Underground Comix!. The overlap between Marvel staff and the underground comix scene is traced, showing cartoonists who drew for both at once.
- - Robert Crumb Sketchbook 1. A silent flip through the first volume of Robert Crumb's sketchbooks, the pages shown without commentary.
- - panellogy 471 - robert crumb - sketches from 1988 - 2011. The final volume of Taschen's hardbound Crumb sketchbook set, covering drawings from 1988 to 2011, is examined and compared with the earlier volumes.
- - BLACK COMIX - FLIP THRU! PART 1 Classic Who’s Who for Black Comic Book Culture #BlackComix #ONYXCON. A page-by-page look through Black Comix, a survey volume of Black comics creators and their independent work, presented at a convention table. Little detail beyond the flip-through itself.
- - Icons of Underground Comix pt.1. A survey of the leading figures of the underground comix movement, going through the cartoonists and the books they drew. Metadata is thin beyond the title.
- - "My characters have a life of their own." | Cartoonist Robert Crumb | Louisiana Channel. Robert Crumb speaks on stage about drawing as a way of putting his obsessions into the world, and answers the argument that pornographic imagery drives men to assault.
- - COMIC BOOK LIBRARY TOUR PART 3 | Manga | DC | Omnibus | Underground Comix | 100+ comics & books. A shelf by shelf walk through a personal comics library, pulling out manga volumes, DC collections, omnibus editions and underground comix from a collection of more than a hundred books.
- - TCAF 2023: Binky Brown Meets The World The Legacy of Autobiographic Cartoonists. At the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Georgia Webber moderates a panel with Peter Dunlap-Shohl, Rebecca Roher and Dave Ortega on autobiographical comics. The discussion traces what Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Diane Noomin and Justin Green opened up for the form and how each panelist handles their own life material.
- - Time to Read Some Underground Comics. A reader works through a stack of recently acquired underground comix on camera, handling issues and describing what is inside them. Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Spain Rodriguez and Dori Seda are among the cartoonists represented in the pile, part of it a gift from another collector.
- - 1992: Art Spiegelman on the CREATION of MAUS | The Late Show | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive. In a 1992 television interview Art Spiegelman discusses making Maus, the book in which he draws his father's account of surviving as a Polish Jew and renders Jews as mice and Germans and Poles as cats and pigs. He describes his childhood reading and his difficult relationship with his father.
- - Virtual Memories 552 - Bill Griffith. Bill Griffith traces Zippy the Pinhead back to Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy, the strip he treats as a lesson in what comics can do, and recounts writing Three Rocks about Bushmiller's life.
- - Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman | S3, E9 | DIALOGUES PODCAST. Two cartoonists who came up through the underground compare how each found his way into comics, covering their early influences and the trade they built careers in.
- - Confessions Of Robert Crumb. A 1987 BBC Arena profile in which Robert Crumb narrates his own life: a Marine father, Catholic schooling, marriage at 21 in Cleveland, LSD in 1965, San Francisco and the founding of Zap Comix, then celebrity, a commune, and meeting Aline Kominsky. He also describes his loneliness and his bewilderment at fame.
- - FABULOUS FURRY FREAK BROTHERS High Times and Misdemeanors | Fantagraphics | Underground Comix |. A read-through of the Fantagraphics collection High Times and Misdemeanors, gathering Gilbert Shelton's Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. The strips and the book's presentation of them are described page by page.
- - How I succeeded as a cartoonist- Interview with Jamar Nicholas. Shannon Newby interviews cartoonist Jamar Nicholas about building a career in comics and about his book LEON: Worst Friends Forever, with attention to the business side of independent publishing.
- - Subverting the Mainstream: A Brief History of Underground Comix part 5 1970's. A convention talk on the 1970s peak of underground comix and the lawsuits and shifting culture that followed, given by MiLo at the 2025 Kalamazoo Comic-Con as part five of a series.
- - Robert Crumb Original Sketchbook Flip Through!. Pages from one of Robert Crumb's original sketchbooks are turned on camera, showing the drawing he did outside publication.
- - Robert Crumb and Dan Nadel with Naomi Fry - Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life. Robert Crumb and biographer Dan Nadel speak with Naomi Fry about Nadel's life of Crumb, drawing on letters and archive material, and about Crumb's drawing across the 1960s counterculture, popular music and his Book of Genesis.
- - Comic Culture with Denis Kitchen. Denis Kitchen covers his run from underground cartoonist to publisher of Kitchen Sink and founder of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, ahead of a documentary being made about him.
- - RICHARD CORBEN LIBRARY | Dark Horse Comics | Heavy Metal Magazine | Underground Comix. A run-through of the hardcover volumes Dark Horse has issued collecting Richard Corben's work, with the presenter handling each book and describing its contents, reprinted stories and production. Corben's horror and fantasy strips for Heavy Metal and the undergrounds frame the discussion.
- - SIMON HANSELMANN’s Megg, Mogg, & Owl Underground Comix Series!. An account of Simon Hanselmann's Megg, Mogg and Owl books, describing the cast, the flat they share and the way the strips move between stoner comedy and depression, addiction and the wreckage of friendships. Their debt to the older underground comix format is drawn out.
- - ART BOOK: Robert Crumb, "Art & Beauty Magazine: Drawings by R. Crumb (Limited Edition)". A limited edition of Art & Beauty Magazine, gathering Robert Crumb's drawings, is opened and turned through, with notes on the printing and binding of the edition.
- - In the Studio: Robert Crumb (All the Footages of Him Drawing!). Assembled footage of Robert Crumb at work with pen on paper, drawing and hatching in close shot. Narration sets out his debt to late nineteenth and early twentieth century American folk culture, his part in founding Zap Comix and contributing to all sixteen issues, and his work for the East Village Other.
- - Has Robert Crumb lost his mind?! | Tales of Paranoia | Fantagraphic | Underground Comix. Tales of Paranoia, a comic book Robert Crumb published in 2025 at the age of 81, is read through page by page, with commentary on the drawing and on how it sits against his earlier work.
- - My Interview With Cartoonist Denis Kitchen. Denis Kitchen founded Kitchen Sink Press and later the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and sets out that publishing history at length.
- - BREAKING NEWS! Fantagraphics Drops their BEST catalog ever! Fall 2026!. A run through a Fantagraphics seasonal catalogue, covering announced MAD Magazine and EC Comics material, Zap Comix, Steranko and Hugo Pratt, alongside contemporary books by Noah Van Sciver, Jesse Moynihan, Paco Roca, Joe Sacco and Leah Hayes.
- - Bill Holbrook cartoonist interview. Syndicated newspaper cartoonist Bill Holbrook walks through his weekly production routine across the three daily strips he draws, On The Fastrack, Safe Havens and Kevin and Kell, in a session presented by the Southeast chapter of the National Cartoonists Society.
- - R. Crumb Sketchbook Volume 1. The first volume of Robert Crumb's sketchbooks in the Taschen edition is flipped through page by page, showing the drawings and the quality of the reproduction.
- - Robert Crumb by Dan Nadel + Existential Comics by Robert Crumb **Flip Through**. Two books get turned page by page: Dan Nadel's biography of Robert Crumb and a collection of Crumb's own strips on existential themes.
- - A History of Underground Comics by Mark James Estren **Book Flip-Through**. Mark James Estren's A History of Underground Comics is turned through, showing the reproductions of work by Robert Crumb, Richard Corben, S. Clay Wilson, Kim Deitch, Rick Griffin and Bill Griffith. The physical condition of the copy, whose binding has come apart, is also discussed.
- - NPR/Network - Interview with Robert Crumb. Robert Crumb answers a radio interviewer's questions about his drawing, his influences and the life behind the work, at length and in conversation.
- - TWO NEW COLLECTIONS by Kim Deitch from Fantagraphics | Underground Comix | How I Make Comics. Two Kim Deitch collections issued by Fantagraphics get a walkthrough, with sections on Reincarnation Stories and on How I Make Comics, the latter covering Deitch's working method and page construction.
- - ART BOOK: ROBERT CRUMB, "R. Crumb Sketchbook, Volume 3" BOOK FLIP-THROUGH. Volume three of the Taschen edition of Robert Crumb's sketchbooks is turned through in full, with attention to his portrait drawing and his hatching.
- - ART BOOK: ROBERT CRUMB, "R. Crumb Sketchbook, Volume 4" BOOK FLIP-THROUGH. Volume four of Robert Crumb's collected sketchbooks is shown page by page, continuing through the portraits and the dense crosshatched line.
- - CARTOONIST NOAH VAN SCIVER INTERVIEW | The Mess | Joseph Smith | Fante Bukowski | Fantagraphics. Noah Van Sciver discusses his Fantagraphics graphic novel The Mess, his earlier books on Joseph Smith and the Mormons and the Fante Bukowski series, along with the work of the late Joe Matt and his own reading of comics history.