Zap Comix is among the best-known of the underground comics that emerged as part of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s. Cover image of Zap Comix #1 This work is copyrighted. ... The term underground comics or comix describes the self-published or small press comic books that sprang up in the US in the late 1960s. ... Jump to: navigation, search In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream, a cultural equivalent of a political opposition. ... Jump to: navigation, search The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...

The first issue of Zap was published in San Francisco in early 1968. It featured the work of satirical cartoonist Robert Crumb. Some 1,500-5,000 copies were printed by Charles Plymell, a Beat writer who shared a house with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady as LSD hit San Francisco in the early 1960s. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... Jump to: navigation, search A cartoonist at work. ... Robert Crumb (born August 30, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an artist and illustrator who signs his work R. Crumb. Crumb was a founder of the underground comics movement, and is often regarded as the most prominent figure in that movement. ... Jump to: navigation, search Charles Plymell (a. ... Beating is striking more than once, in violence, beating a drum, etc. ... Jump to: navigation, search Allen Ginsberg, far left, at Airport Frankfurt, Germany Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American Beat poet born in Paterson, New Jersey. ... Neal Cassady, left, with Jack Kerouac, photograph by Carolyn Cassady. ...

While a few small-circulation self-published satirical comic books had been printed prior to this, Zap #1 became the model for the "comix" movement that snowballed after its release. (Another all-Crumb issue of Zap was drawn before issue one, but was not printed earlier because of problems with a publisher. That issue subsequently appeared as Zap #0.) The term underground comics or comix describes the self-published or small press comic books that sprang up in the US in the late 1960s. ...

After the success of the first issue, Crumb opened the pages of Zap to several other artists, including S. Clay Wilson, Robert Williams, "Spain" Rodriguez, and two artists with reputations as psychedelic poster designers, Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin. This stable of artists, along with Crumb, remained mostly constant throughout the history of Zap, which published sporadically (several years passing between recent issues) until the present (Zap #15, 2005). Griffin died in 1991; a two-page story by artist Paul Mavrides appeared in issue #14. Mavrides was invited to contribute when Crumb announced that he no longer wanted to work on Zap. S. Clay Wilson is a comic artist, a central figure in the underground comix movement. ... Robert Williams is a famed, controversial painter and editor of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine. ... Manuel Spain Rodriguez (born 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an underground cartoonist best known for his character Trashman. His experiences on the road with the biker gang the Road Vultures provided inspiration for his work as did his left-wing politics. ... The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη (psyche), and manifest, δηλειν (delein). ... 1942 US government war poster. ... Victor Moscoso is an American illustrator and comic artist, especially noted for his work in the late 1960s as a designer of psychedelic concert posters and a contributor to underground comix (he is among the artists who regularly appear in Zap Comix). ... Richard Alden Griffin (June 18, 1944 - August 18, 1991) was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paul Mavrides (born 1945) is an American artist, best known for his critique-laden comics, cartoons, paintings, graphics, performances and writings that encompass a disturbing, yet humorous, catalog of the social ills and shortcomings of human civilization. ...

While the origin of the spelling "comix" is a subject of some dispute, it was popularized by its appearance in the title of the first issues of Zap. "Zap" was also one of the books that put the "underground" in comics: Zap #4, in particular, was the subject of numerous obscenity busts and court cases. Obscenity has several connotations. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Chicago Police Department arrests a man A protester is arrested during a demonstration. ... This is a list of significant court cases. ...