Week 6: Underground Comics

Being able to read underground comics gave me some good insight of the time these comics were published and distributed. These comics spoke loudly about rebellion and were unhinged in their content as if the writers and artists were screaming at the social and lawful restrictions of the time. This is reflected in some of the nonsensical and violent ZAP Comics.  The art style in some of these sections cluttered the panels and seemed to be a means to tell a story of experiencing the artist's self expression then an actual narrative plot. A lot of Underground comics also dealt with highly sexual themes such as the Cheech Wizard and Tits and Clits. Most of the comics that dealt with sexual themes drew idealized women, but this was not the case with the Feminist comic Tits and Clits where the comics where written and drawn by females. The Tits and Clits approached sexual themes while keeping the body types realistic and displayed lots of LGBT representation during a time where that would not be talked about in comics freely. The comics never had color which was one of the characterisctics of being underground, not having the printing facilties or enough funds to have the comics in color. However this did not seem to stop their influence or importance. These comics talked about drugs, sex, sexuality, violence and what seemed whayever else overground comics were afraid to approach. These were the empitimy of true self expression and showed some of the reality that the people of the time were feeling which overground comics tried to censor.