Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook54 pages35 minutes
Radical America Komiks
By Paul Buhle and Jay Kinney
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
"Underground comix," an artistic expression of rambunctious rebellion in the Vietnam War era, started off with a bang. Radical America, a journal affiliated with Students for a Democratic Society published a memorable comic art edition in 1969. Its principal artist and editor, Gilbert Shelton, whose Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers would be enjoyed in many editions across the world, brought to the project his Texas pals Frank Stack and Jack Jaxon. Also on hand, among others, were Chicago comics innovators Jay Lynch and Skip Williamson. Together, these and other contributors issued a veritable artistic manifesto: a new vernacular art had arrived! A half century after its original appearance, Radical America Komiks retains its rebellious spirit and its rollicking humor. Dopey but also militantly antimilitarist, the comics in this reprinted volume speak to the ideas, sentiments, and artistic experiments of a generation. Longtime underground artist Jay Kinney, coeditor of the satirical series Young Lust and Anarchy Comics, adds a foreword, and Radical America editor Paul Buhle offers an extensive introduction to the saga of comic art, radical and otherwise.
Unavailable
Author
Paul Buhle
Paul Buhle, a labor historian of 1960s vintage, published Radical America Komics in 1969. After an explicable lapse of 35 years, he has produced, since 2005, a number of non-fiction comics, including Wobblies! A Graphic History. He lives in Rhode Island.
Read more from Paul Buhle
State Capitalism and World Revolution Robin Hood: People's Outlaw and Forest Hero: A Graphic Guide Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The Art of Harvey Kurtzman: The Mad Genius of Comics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMr. Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGarrets and Pretenders: Bohemian Life in America from Poe to Kerouac Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lincoln For Beginners Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFDR and the New Deal For Beginners Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNew Left Revisited Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIt Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Radical America Komiks
Related ebooks
The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Encyclopedia of Black Comics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Four Colour Combat: Canadian Forces in War Comics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSeth: Conversations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmerica Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHoward Chaykin: Conversations Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Politics in the Gutters: American Politicians and Elections in Comic Book Media Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChester Brown: Conversations Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKu Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFaster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Radiacls, Beats and Beboppers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJack Ruby and the Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas: And Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI'd Hate Myself in the Morning: A Memoir Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecond Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaptain America, Masculinity, and Violence: The Evolution of a National Icon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Study Guide for Jack Kerouac's On the Road Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Noise of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Demanding Respect: The Evolution of the American Comic Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSmoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDream Warriors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All That Glittered: The Golden Age of Drama on Broadway, 1919-1959 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Sticking It to the Man: Revolution and Counterculture in Pulp and Popular Fiction, 1950 to 1980 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
United States History For You
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the Guys Who Killed the Guy Who Killed Lincoln: A Nutty Story About Edwin Booth and Boston Corbett Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Library Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51776 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The White Album: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fifties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer: An Edgar Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untold History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twelve Years a Slave (Illustrated) (Two Pence books) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Underground Comix Part 1: This episode examines the history of underground comix, this is a two-part episode. 0% found this document usefulBaldwin v Faulkner 0% found this document useful#187: Super City: New York and the History of Comic Books 0% found this document usefulEpisode 36.1 - FCBD Panel Discussion at Lone Star Comics: Are We Currently In a “Golden Age” of Comics? 0% found this document useful009: The Martians and the Coys by Mack Reynolds - At Least One Vintage Sci-Fi Story Every Week 0% found this document usefulEpisode 90 - American-Themed Comics, New and Not-So-New: American-Themed Comics, New and Not-So-New 0% found this document usefulEpisode 115 - A Review of The Best American Comics 2014: More Better Best 0% found this document usefulHow The Right Makes Comedy Work For Them 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Zap Comix Were Never For Kids! ReasonArticle
Zap Comix Were Never For Kids!
May 20, 2022
10 min readA High-Water Mark in American Mass Culture The AtlanticArticle
A High-Water Mark in American Mass Culture
Sep 21, 2023
6 min readBack In The Day Writer's DigestArticle
Back In The Day
Mar 20, 2019
4 min readIn The Thick Of It American HistoryArticle
In The Thick Of It
Aug 2, 2022
Not a few readers first encountered Stewart Brand in the opening scene of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe’s whirligig chronicle of the Merry Pranksters, Bay Area refugees from the humdrum who in the early 1960s coalesced around novelist Ke
3 min readJill Eisenstadt on the Legendary Literary Scene That Never Really Existed Literary HubArticle
Jill Eisenstadt on the Legendary Literary Scene That Never Really Existed
Jun 9, 2017
4 min readSinclair Lewis, American Prophet Literary HubArticle
Sinclair Lewis, American Prophet
Mar 6, 2017
It Can’t Happen Here, a 1935 novel about the rise of a fascist government in America has been garnering plenty of attention post-election, but even as it muscles its way onto bestseller lists and inspires think pieces in publications like the New Yor
8 min readThe Rise of Queer Comics The Paris ReviewArticle
The Rise of Queer Comics
Dec 11, 2017
9 min readWhy We Need A New Movement The Critic MagazineArticle
Why We Need A New Movement
May 26, 2022
WHEN THE SECRET Author first wandered impressionably along Grub Street, the world was full of literary groupings. He was too young to remember the Movement (early 1950s) or the Angry Young Men (later 1950s), and the Sixties Experimentalists (Ann Quin
3 min readCover Story American HistoryArticle
Cover Story
Jun 29, 2021
8 min readThe Many Reincarnations of Kim Deitch The Paris ReviewArticle
The Many Reincarnations of Kim Deitch
Oct 15, 2019
5 min readA Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1930s Literary HubArticle
A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1930s
Oct 18, 2018
12 min readThe Original The AdvocateArticle
The Original
Mar 22, 2022
3 min readA Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1960s Literary HubArticle
A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1960s
Oct 23, 2018
11 min readLazarus of the Picnic Table: On John McPhee’s ‘Draft No. 4’ The MillionsArticle
Lazarus of the Picnic Table: On John McPhee’s ‘Draft No. 4’
Oct 26, 2017
Writing remains an anguished, halting process—confidence an account that is zeroed out each time McPhee files a piece. The post Lazarus of the Picnic Table: On John McPhee’s ‘Draft No. 4’ appeared first on The Millions.
5 min readThe Prevalence of Ritual: On Romare Bearden’s Projections The Paris ReviewArticle
The Prevalence of Ritual: On Romare Bearden’s Projections
Sep 6, 2018
8 min readAccess To Success Journal of Alta CaliforniaArticle
Access To Success
Oct 2, 2018
9 min readThe Curse of The Weekly Standard The AtlanticArticle
The Curse of The Weekly Standard
Dec 15, 2018
5 min readSuper-heroes On Stamps Stamp CollectorArticle
Super-heroes On Stamps
Oct 8, 2021
Like many matters in an industry populated by opinionated devotees, the origin of the comic book generates passionate debate, but comics, as we know them today, developed from the ‘humorous pencillings’ of political satirists of the 1700s, giving the
6 min readForetold? Mysterious WaysArticle
Foretold?
May 23, 2019
2 min readPrestige Comics: On the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection The MillionsArticle
Prestige Comics: On the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection
May 27, 2022
The idea that a citadel of bookishness has fallen to this siege of adolescent fantasia could easily take on outsize importance. The post Prestige Comics: On the Penguin Classics Marvel Collection appeared first on The Millions.
9 min readPainting A Story The Saturday Evening PostArticle
Painting A Story
Mar 1, 2021
4 min readThe Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism The AtlanticArticle
The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism
Feb 12, 2021
18 min readFaithful To Master And Author Journal of Alta CaliforniaArticle
Faithful To Master And Author
Jan 7, 2020
The most popular American writer of his too-brief heyday, Jack London died just over a century ago at the age of 40, his health seriously deteriorated by the long-term wear of alcohol, tropical maladies, and other ails. Yet he proved to be a very mod
5 min readWhat We’re Reading: Kevin Boyle And Ron Howard Both Wrote Books About The Forgotten Parts Of The 1960s Chicago TribuneArticle
What We’re Reading: Kevin Boyle And Ron Howard Both Wrote Books About The Forgotten Parts Of The 1960s
Nov 10, 2021
5 min readBefore #MeToo, Before School Board Meltdowns, Most Big Movements Start Small. ‘The Quiet Before’ Is About The Whisper Campaigns. Chicago TribuneArticle
Before #MeToo, Before School Board Meltdowns, Most Big Movements Start Small. ‘The Quiet Before’ Is About The Whisper Campaigns.
Mar 9, 2022
4 min readFunk: American Dada Ceramics: Art and PerceptionArticle
Funk: American Dada
Feb 22, 2018
5 min readComic Capers Who Do You Think You Are?Article
Comic Capers
Apr 6, 2021
5 min readGeorge Lois, An Icon Of Ads And Magazine Covers, Has Died At 91 NPRArticle
George Lois, An Icon Of Ads And Magazine Covers, Has Died At 91
Nov 20, 2022
George Lois fashioned some of the most daring magazine images of the '60s and popularized such catchphrases and brand names as "I Want My MTV" and "Lean Cuisine."
3 min readLooking Backward From the future Journal of Alta CaliforniaArticle
Looking Backward From the future
Jun 30, 2020
14 min readBooks The Big IssueArticle
Books
Jan 16, 2023
6 min read
Reviews for Radical America Komiks
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews