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Bravo! both for the topic and the presentation.

I started losing interest in aboveground comics when Marvel let Ditko and Kirby leave the bullpen. I stopped reading them when DC…

Neal Umphred in The Nib · 2019-02-23 14:28 · 0 claps · 0.6 min read
#fred-schrier #underground-comics #jack-kirby
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Bravo! both for the topic and the presentation.

I started losing interest in aboveground comics when Marvel let Ditko and Kirby leave the bullpen. I stopped reading them when DC unceremoniously dropped Kirby’s “Fourth World” titles back in the early ’70s. But I kept on reading underground comix for several years.

If you’re not familiar with the undergrounds, you might enjoy some of them for the issues they addressed, the way-way-way outside-the-box humor, and also for the “liberal” approach to page breakdowns some the of the artists used.

A fave of mine was Fred Schrier, apparently forgotten by all but those of us who bought and read his work 40–50 years ago.

[embed]a zen fable by underground comix genius fred schrier - the endless sixties ARTIST FRED SCHRIER ranks among the most fantastic artists of the Underground Comix Era of the late 1960s and early…www.theendlesssixties.com

Keep on keepin’ on . . .


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