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Does anyone know about the whole controversy with Zap Comix back in the day? I heard it was pretty controversial in the late 60's
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/co/ doesn't know shit about real comics.
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>>93730340
Enlighten us.
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At that point the CCA had still left a pretty massive imprint on the cultural perception of comic books being kid stuff.
Zap was a comic specifically making pretend covers about being kid friendly, when it was anything but. Nowadays that's pretty passe, but back then it was actually fooling parents into buying them for their kids since they genuinely didnt know any better.
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>>93733966
That is a brilliant strategy.
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>>93730032
It went against the grain of mainstream comics by being edgy AF: sex, drugs, more sex, more drugs, and subversive ideologies.
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>>93736874
>subversive ideologies
Which?
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>>93733966
Did Zap actually have the distribution to pull that off? I was under the impression that underground comics were mostly sold through head shops so it seems like it would be hard to "accidentally" assume Zap is a product for children.
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Well, two of it's biggest names were R. Crumb and Gilbert Shelton, so no shit they were controversial with anyone that wasn't a pothead.
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>>93740305
>two of it's biggest names
*two of its biggest names
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