Where to begin with underground comics? They are interesting to say the least, if not exactly my cup of tea… I read quite a few from the selection provided and, I’m sorry to say, I would be quite pressed to name one that I actually liked. I understand the time period in which these were created; sticking it to the man, and challenging convention and what not. I understand what they were trying to accomplish but most of them to me just come off as cheap shock value and crude humor. Not exactly the kind of comics that I enjoy reading.
Some of them I can see as being satirical and sort of giving a middle finger to the Comics Code Association. Such as one particular comic featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse in a…shall we say compromising position. I can understand the satirical angle they were trying to go with as the Disney comics and such were on the rise due to the Comics Code. I can see comic artists and writers wanting to poke fun at it.
It is also fairly obvious that the writers and illustrators of these comics were mostly young men seeing as most of their subject matter revolves around sex and is incredibly sexist towards women. Unfortunately that was a rather common occurrence in that time period as the comic book industry was very much a male dominated profession, but I digress.
In short, they were interesting and probably shocking for their time, but not really my thing. I can appreciate that they were a part of comic history, but I probably would not go out of my way to read more of these on my own.
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