Best Underground Comics
Wimmen’s Comix was a zine series launched in 1972 offering a vital platform for female artists working within the underground comics movement. Published until 1992, it showcased diverse feminist perspectives and experimental art styles. The project represents a last gasp of independent, DIY publicat...
Jimbo is an underground comic character and series created by American artist Gary Panter. Emerging from the late-1970s punk and underground-comics milieu, Jimbo appears in stories that combine dystopian California, science-fiction imagery, absurd humor, and dense graphic design. The series is for r...
Tits & Clits is an alternative zine created in 1972 by Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevely. It represents a pioneering effort in women’s graphic storytelling, directly exploring female sexuality within the underground comic scene. This work gained significance as one of the earliest examples of feminist-dr...
Gothic Blimp Works was an all-comics tabloid published in 1969 by the New York underground newspaper East Village Other. The series ran for eight issues in newsprint and used a large tabloid format associated with Sunday comics while featuring work by underground artists such as Robert Crumb, Vaughn...
Dennis Eichhorn’s Real Stuff is an autobiographical zine series documenting his experiences through 1990s underground comics. Eichhorn presents raw accounts of his life—travel, encounters, and observations—offering a unique perspective on alternative lifestyles and the creative process. This work re...
Slow Death is an underground comix anthology first published by Last Gasp in 1970. The series debuted as an environmentalist project on the first Earth Day and used comics to address pollution, ecological damage, and related social concerns. Later issues also included horror and countercultural mate...
Young Lust is an American underground comix anthology created by Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney and first published in 1970. It parodied the plots, visual conventions, and sentimental morality of mainstream romance comics through explicit sex, satire, and countercultural humor, with work by multiple u...
San Francisco Comic Book is an underground comix anthology associated with San Francisco's independent comics scene. Conceived and edited by Gary Arlington, it began in 1970, with Don Donahue helping edit the first issue, and included work by Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Bill Griffith, Trina Robbins, J...
Hup is a short-lived solo comic publication by Robert Crumb, issued by Last Gasp in four numbered issues between 1986 and 1992. The series combines humorous and autobiographical stories with Crumb's observations about sex, relationships, religion, business, and everyday behavior, and it marked the r...
Uneeda Comix is an underground comix anthology published in 1970 by the San Francisco Comic Book Company. It is associated with the countercultural comics movement of the period and includes work by artists such as Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson. The publication is of interest to readers studying t...
Penthouse Comix was an English-language adult comics magazine published by Penthouse in the United States. Its first series ran from May-June 1994 through July 1998, and the series record lists 36 issues numbered 1 through 33. The magazine used a magazine-sized, full-color format and presented eroti...
