Underground Comcis

So flipping through these comic suggestions was an interesting experience. It went from engaging to disgust very quickly. The stories were awful and convoluted. They were to quick to really like any of the characters and if the character did stick around (Mr Natural) he wasn’t likable in the slightest. Many of them had sexual themes and really makes me think how different an era it was. Many of the women were over sexualized, or not even consenting. In other comics It was only women empowerment and how rebellious it was for them to have a sexuality of their own and highlighting the artist view on feminism at the time.
There are parts of the underground comics i can respect the history of. I see the politics and many ignorant views of different cultures from this time. Its sad knowing some people thought this way and worse that their probably people that still do. Its disgusting in a lot of ways that don’t have to do with many of the nasty/sexist/racist stories. The clunky art style only adds to how uncomfortable these comics are. The line work is constantly sloppy in many of these comics, any knowledge of anatomy is just thrown to the wind. You can see these are done by armature young artists rebelling and trying to make work that is edgy. The use of drugs and alcohol is interesting in many of these because the views of them vary from embracing them to showing them as the evil.  


The music that was given to us to listen to was pretty rad, and I felt as though I was thrown into a time machine for just a few moments.

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