jaw@ames-lm.UUCP (James A. Woods) (03/29/84)
# "Noyatin" -- Leather Nun Victim
After monitoring net.comics for several months, I have seen nothing
concerning ephemera of the underground variety. Is there a "net.comix"
cognoscienti out there?
I realize that the field is on the wane, having seen little
output to match that of the Golden Age of the late 60's / early 70's.
Chiefly, I savvy work long out-of-print, often bargain-priced due to
lack of interest.
Undergrounds have an inherent twisted appeal. Aside from this,
anal-retentive collectors such as myself have much more to be interested in
than the overgrounders, what with colorful print run history that
differentiates amongst the already obscure. (I have been known to discuss
the cover ink separation variants on Thrilling Murder for more than the
30 seconds you think it deserves.)
Following Sturgeon's Law (90% of anything is trash), we tend to
focus on the best and the brightest. Some favorites:
Robert "Hieronymous Bob" Williams
(Bosch on LSD with pen and ink)
S. Clay Wilson
(vile archetypes galore)
Jim Franklin
(this means you, Armadillo, Texas)
Justin Green
(Rhode Island School of Design--lapsed Catholics need apply)
Greg Irons
(now a tatoo artist)
Kim Deitch
(son of a Czechoslovakian animator--eerie cardboard style)
Bill Griffith
(master of the non sequitur--check out the Zippyscope)
Moscoso (ethereal), Spain Rodriguez (muscular) ...
and others, mostly S.F. based.
Anachronisms, you say? Maybe so, but my drug-addled memories are rather
fond. For hippies-cum-punks, and other international stylists, there is
even a "new wave" underground comics movement afoot (c.f. Raw Magazine.)
Comicdom is nothing if not nostalgic.
P.S.
The double posting is a deliberate attempt to gain a wider, related,
more linear, but not necessarily "more respectable" audience.
-- James A. Woods {dual,hplabs,hao,research}!ames-lm!jaw