Exploitation Nation #6: Underground Comix (Two Covers!)

Description

Choose from Mark Bode’s Clarion Alley cover or Will Eisner Official Site‘s SPIRIT cover from Denis Kitchen’s SNARF #3. Both designed by Ryan Hose (our new artistic director!).

So much great stuff in here including:

* an Overview of Undergrounds;

* Interview with Stephen Bissette, discussing his projects TABOO and S.R. Bissette’s TYRANT (R)

* Interview with Howard Cruse, who helped pave the way for future gay cartoonists;

* Interview with Trina Robbins, the first woman to draw WONDER WOMAN and a pioneer in Wimmen’s Comix;

* Interviews with Frank Henenlotter and Mike Diana, discussing the documentary “The Trials of Mike Diana”, whose comix were convicted of “obscenity”;

* Greg Ketter of Dreamhaven Books discusses the history of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund;

* AND a huge Bode section, featuring interviews with Mark Bode, and a reprint of Vaughn Bode’s 1975 essay “Confessions of a Cartoon Gooroo” (Official Mark and Vaughn Bode Fan Site) in its entirety!