[mod.music.gaffa] underground comix

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (01/22/87)

Really-From: hsu@uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu)


< Sue mentions "underground comix" like Life in Hell in weekly papers >
Well, I wouldn't really consider most things that appear in free weeklies
"underground comix", since the target audience of these papers are not
anymore "underground" than the target audience of the average college 
radio station. Both Lynda Barry and Matt Groening have had books published
by relatively mainstream publishers.

The real underground comix are probably too weird to sell, ummm, yuppie
ad tabloids :-). Some of them even have connections to underground music,
like Matt Howarth's comic strips which are reviews of alternative music,
and the Pizz who draws violent images close to the punk spirit. There are
also several like John E. who draws comix and makes his own tapes. A lot
of industrial musicians also do comix and collages.

Bill