WEEK SIX; Comic Book Underground

Well let’s put it this way. Never did I think I’d be permitted, even encouraged, to read such literature. It was certainly interesting, not even because of the subject matter specifically. Because they were made in a time when comics were especially frowned upon the style of artwork went from more refined, to much edgier, harsher, almost a more homemade sense. Since there were so few regulations to keep comics in check what or who was to say that artists couldn’t do, make, or write whatever they wanted in them. This brings us to the subject matter. Oh the subject matter. Put aside the fact that there was sex galor, the comics were rebellious, wild, untamed. This reflected the time period they were created, the hippy 70s. Era of flower children, rebellion against the system, and complete and utter backlash against the rules and regulations finally crumbling from the 50s and 60s. The wide array of styles and unusual subject matter just goes to prove the pendulum will always swing from one extreme to the other.

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