COVER CONTEST 3/27-4/2: Underground Comix!

[MRP]

-M

[Javasaurus]

When I started diving into this week's topic, I had no idea that it would lead to posting an entry done by a fellow Texan...

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[pinkfloydsound17]

One I own that is just.....plain.....awesome

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[ed2962]

I must confess. I never have bought an underground comic in my life so I may not have an entry this time. Just have very little knowledge of them.

I'm not super strict...I'm willing to roll with stuff from say Fantagraphics, Oni Press, etc.Or famous stuff that just happens to be self published ( that should give folks some good ideas) Or newer companies like maybe Aftershock or perhaps Black Mask, what have you...just as long as we aren't getting tons of Vertigo or First Comics entries.

[ed2962]

Would this count?



Published by Thoughts & Images in 1984.
Print run of 2000 copies.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/albed...2/4000-103779/

I'm cool with it!

[Kai "the spy"]

[Güicho]

Freak Bros. would have been my go to. Since the OP used them as the example, I'll go with their Porcine Avenger, the Phacochoerus Protector, the Sentinel of Squootpeep, The Pig of Steel, the one and only ...

[kjn]

Since we seem to run a side with music here in this contest, this is the most underground music that fits the theme that I can think of.

Dead Titans (mp3). Lyrics by CaptCleghorn and some edits by me. Sorry that my voice wasn't my best during recording—I was not yet recovered from a really bad cold.

(With the rise of Bandcamp, Spotify, and Youtube the music underground isn't what it was before…)

[nx01a]

[MajorHoy]

For those not familiar with this character, the comic book was originally named "Cherry Poptart".

[seismic-2]

I'm old, and the overwhelming majority of underground comix that I remember from "back in the day" are things that I wouldn't dare post herein. After all, that's why they were "underground"! (Let's just say that in an earlier generation, those artists would likely have applied their cartooning skill to the production of Tijuana Bibles.) However, this much more recent one (from 1996) is in fact tame enough to be SFW, so let's go with that.

[Iron Maiden]

I'm not super strict...I'm willing to roll with stuff from say Fantagraphics, Oni Press, etc.Or famous stuff that just happens to be self published ( that should give folks some good ideas) Or newer companies like maybe Aftershock or perhaps Black Mask, what have you...just as long as we aren't getting tons of Vertigo or First Comics entries.

Okay, but don't be surprised if I follow Ray's lead.

[CaptCleghorn]

The Howie Chaykin fanboy rises again.

[MajorHoy]

. . . (Let's just say that in an earlier generation, those artists would likely have applied their cartooning skill to the production of Tijuana Bibles.) . . .

And for those of you not familiar with this term from back in the last century, . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana_bible

[kjn]

I'm not super strict...I'm willing to roll with stuff from say Fantagraphics, Oni Press, etc.Or famous stuff that just happens to be self published ( that should give folks some good ideas) Or newer companies like maybe Aftershock or perhaps Black Mask, what have you...just as long as we aren't getting tons of Vertigo or First Comics entries.

Another tip is to read up a bit on the start of the career of favourite writers or artists—a lot of them started with comic fanzines, underground comics, or small presses, before moving onto established publisher and becoming names. That's how I found my entry. I remembered that I had read "The Papal Affair" by Bryan Talbot online, and did a bit of research to find the original print publication.