Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuse

Description: Dirty Pictures by Brian Doherty In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set out to subvert the medium, and with it, American culture. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and is the author of This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground (Little, Brown, 2004). His reporting, essays, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, and Fantagraphicss The Best American Comics Criticism, among others. He has also served as a judge for the comics industrys Eisner Awards. Review "Brian Dohertys Dirty Pictures is coming out right when its needed. As creative expression is increasingly attacked from across the political spectrum, this wonderful book is a reminder of how art, unrestricted and free, helps us process the mess. Its impeccably researched, sharply written, and opens a portal back to that old, weird America that found its mind by losing it a little." -- Reid Mitenbuler, author of Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation"Tune in, read on, and know all. Brian Dohertys heroic and hilarious Dirty Pictures is a detail-rich history with insight from the giants—Robert Crumb through Art Spiegelman. The story of underground comix is not just important, its as American as an apple pie laced with LSD." -- Kliph Nesteroff, author of We Had a Little Real Estate Problem and The ComediansIn order to develop the vast field of indie comics available today, where every style and subject under the sun is available to a reader, you need the foundation laid by the underground comix scene of the 60s and 70s. In Dirty Pictures, author Brian Doherty expertly details the players and events that led to an artistic renaissance. -- Ho Che Anderson, creator of King, Sand & Fury, and Godhead"Dirty Pictures is a fascinating deep dig into a unique subculture populated by screwball eccentrics, whose rude, jarring, and far-out works of art changed the face of American humor in all its incarnations." -- Gregg Turkington, comedian/actor (Entertainment, Ant-Man, On Cinema at the Cinema)". . .given the exponential reach of this initially tiny cluster of transgressive artists, Dohertys book is a welcome addition to an under-analyzed legacy of the free-spirited 1960s." -- James Sullivan * San Francisco Chronicle *"A free-wheeling, frank account of the rise and fall of the underground comic scene. . . . Lively, well researched, and full of telling anecdotes; just the thing for comix aficionados and collectors." * Kirkus Reviews *As Doherty entertainingly traces the movements rise—from its humble beginnings in the 1960s to its uphill battle to be recognized as an art form—he captures how it perfectly reflected the rapidly changing norms of the baby boomer generation and its enduring impact on pop culture today. Comix fans and artists should make room on their shelves for this one. * Publishers Weekly *...shines a light on a corner of the comics business that still hasnt received its due . . . If this topic interests you at all, Dirty Pictures is likely to be the most complete and authoritative account were going to get. -- Rob Salkowitz * ICv2 *Dirty Pictures is a riveting look at the raunchy history of underground comix -- Thom Dunn * Boing Boing *The book is simply the best and most comprehensive look at underground comics published to date. -- Alex Dueben * Smash Pages *Indispensable. * Shelf Awareness, starred review *An immense work of comics fandom and a labor of love ... the most far-reaching history of underground comix that anyone will ever likely write. -- Keith A. Gordon * Book & Film Globe * Promotional A complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comix—now in paperback! Review Quote "Indispensable." Details ISBN141975047X Author Brian Doherty Short Title Dirty Pictures Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 141975047X ISBN-13 9781419750472 Format Paperback Imprint Abrams Press Subtitle How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix UK Release Date 2023-07-20 Pages 352 Publisher Abrams Publication Date 2023-07-20 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2023-07-20 US Release Date 2023-07-20 Audience General DEWEY 741.59 AU Release Date 2023-08-02 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:143069893;

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