Week 6: Underground Comics

Underground comics was very different from anything else we have read for this class While there is a loose quality to these comics, within the writing a lot of them send to be satire or cynical in some way. They are thought provoking, innovative and even controversial.

I’ve read a lot of underground comics recently. My friend Reed is really into them and he always has a comic to show me. He first introduced me to Frits the Cat, which I like to think of as an animated version of underground comics. I can appreciate how the comics goes beyond what considered culturally appropriate and throws sex, drugs, violence, and general immorality in the face of the reader.

My friend Reed’s artwork is very much inspired by Robert Crumb's style of drawing. It is very expressive and exaggerated but not in the usual way. A lot of emotions are expressed with extra feature/ markings and doesn’t exclusively occur on their faces, for example, puffs of steam if their angry, or little lightning squiggles coming from the eyes if they're looking at something. It's not a style you see very often, or used as frequently as he does so it was very refreshing to see it.