Zap
Zap Comix from 1968 and the artists around it: Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Spain Rodriguez, Victor Moscoso, Rick Griffin. Crumb's depictions of women and of race have been argued over for fifty years and those arguments are recorded with their sources.
Part of Underground Comics
19 moments in this segment.
- - Robert Williams interview (VPRO Onrust, 1992). Robert Williams discusses his painting technique, the Zap generation he came out of, the Guns N' Roses cover that made his name mainstream news, and his standing with the American art world.
- - Spain Rodriguez Interview - KUCI 88.9FM. Spain Rodriguez talks about Zap and Trashman ahead of the Zap 13 event at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, and about the Rick Griffin memorial that followed Griffin's death in 1991. Rodriguez died in 2012.
- - Robert Williams Interview - KUCI 88.9FM. Robert Williams on his Zap years and his painting, recorded to promote the Rick Griffin retrospective held at the Soap Plant on Melrose Avenue in June 1994.
- - panellogy 041 - zap comix. A survey of Zap Comix issues 1 through 15 in the Last Gasp printings, with work by Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Gilbert Shelton and Robert Williams shown and discussed.
- - Victor Moscoso Psychedelic Drawings, 1967 1982 at ANDREW EDLIN GALLERY. A walkthrough of Victor Moscoso's Psychedelic Drawings, 1967-1982 at Andrew Edlin Gallery, curated by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel. The camera moves across studies and layouts for poster and comics work, with reference to Zap Comix and to the concert imagery of the period.
- - 1969 Zap Comix Artist Interview, San Francisco Art. Archive film from 1969 shows a Zap Comix artist interviewed in San Francisco, the year the title was at its height.
- - Surfer Magazine Rick Griffin Pacific Vibrations opening. The opening title sequence Rick Griffin drew for the surf film Pacific Vibrations, made with John Severson after Griffin's years in San Francisco poster work. Musician Randy Nauert, who recorded the title music and contributed to sixteen further tracks, narrates the background.
- - 7) Rick Griffin, Dylan, "Pacific Vibrations" Music Score. Randy Nauert recounts Rick Griffin's return from San Francisco and his dealings with John Severson, Albert Grossman and Bob Dylan, and explains how the music score for the surf film Pacific Vibrations came together. Recorded at Doheny State Park during the Ohana Festival on 10 September 2017.
- - Victor Moscoso Psychedelic Drawings, 1967 1982 at ANDREW EDLIN GALLERY. A walkthrough of Victor Moscoso: Psychedelic Drawings, 1967 to 1982 at the Andrew Edlin Gallery, curated by Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel. The studies and layouts on show include material tied to Zap Comix, the Steve Miller Blues Band and the Doors.
- - Jammer Talks About: Feeding Your Soul and Zap Comix. A collector unboxes a set of Zap Comix and talks about acquiring the run and what he expects to find reading through it. Loose and personal, recorded before any close reading of the issues.
- - Zap Comix #1 (3rd Printing) Flipthrough (Filth warning). A third printing of Zap Comix number one, the 1968 issue Robert Crumb sold from a pram in Haight-Ashbury, turned page by page in heavily worn condition.
- - Susan Stern Interview - Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez (Slamdance 2021). Jeffrey K. Howard questions Susan Stern about Bad Attitude, the documentary she made about her late husband Spain Rodriguez, on the occasion of its 2021 Slamdance premiere.
- - BAD ATTITUDE: THE ART OF SPAIN RODRIGUEZ DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER SPEAKS | Film Threat Podcast Live. Susan Stern speaks about making Bad Attitude, her documentary on her late husband Spain Rodriguez, ahead of its screening at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. She describes him as a working class radical who drew raw, politically charged work.
- - MVFF44: 'Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez' - Conversation with Director Susan Stern. Director Susan Stern discusses Bad Attitude, her portrait of the cartoonist Spain Rodriguez, joined by composer B. Quincy Griffin and editor Victoria Fender, moderated by Kelly Clement at the 44th Mill Valley Film Festival in October 2021. Stern, Rodriguez's widow, talks about his San Francisco underground work and the difficulty of framing it now.
- - Juice Magazine presents California Locos Celebration of Rick Griffin at The Waterfront Venice. An evening at the Waterfront in Venice Beach on 30 November 2022 honouring surf and rock artist Rick Griffin, with a screening of Pacific Vibrations and a new short film. Robert Williams, John Van Hamersveld, Gary Wong, Chaz Bojorquez and Norton Wisdom tell stories from the scene, with Griffin family members present.
- - Robert Crumb Zap Comic #7 - The Pinnacle of Underground Comix!. A reading of Zap Comix issue 7, with commentary on Robert Crumb's contributions and on where the issue sits within the series.
- - Rick Griffin’s Life - A Raw Interview w/ His Wife: Chuck Smith, The Grateful Dead & Surfer Magazine. Ida Griffin talks by telephone about her late husband Rick Griffin, his poster and cover work for Surfer Magazine and the Grateful Dead, and his later turn to the Jesus Movement and the illustrated Bible book he made for pastor Chuck Smith.
- - S. CLAY WILSON - UNDERGROUND COMIX COLLECTION PT.1 . S. Clay Wilson, who died in February 2021, drew the violent pirate and biker panoramas that pushed Zap past what the other contributors were doing, gathered here from a collector's shelves.
- - S. CLAY WILSON - UNDERGROUND COMIX COLLECTION PART 2. More of a collector's S. Clay Wilson holdings, including the Checkered Demon books the artist produced apart from Zap before his death in February 2021.