Underground and independent comics.

Format:

Database & Article Index

Website/Database

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc--Databases.

Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels--Databases.

Graphic novels.

Genre:

Electronic reference sources.

Comics (Graphic works)

Databases.

Graphic novels.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Updated irregularly

Began in 2010?

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Other Title:

Underground & independent comics

Comics database

Title formerly appeared on homepage as: Welcome to Underground & independent comics, comix, and graphic novels <February 20, 2015>

Underground & independent comics, comix, and graphic novels

Former Title:

Underground and independent comics, comix, and graphic novels <May 15, 2019>

Place of Publication:

[Alexandria, Va.] : Alexander Street Press, [2010?]-

Language Note:

Website interface in English or a choice of many other languages.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Primary source database focusing on North American and European adult comic books and graphic novels. The collection includes original material from the 1960s to today along with interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines. At completion, this collection will include more than 100,000 pages of materials, including 75,000 pages of primary materials, and more than 25,000 pages of materials about comics--interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism--from The Comics Journal and other secondary sources.

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary-source database focused on adult comic books and graphic novels. Here are the works of artists alongside interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform. Volume I covers major works from North America and Europe, beginning with the first underground comix from the 1950s and continuing through to modern sequential artists. It incorporates 75,000 pages of material from artists such as Basil Wolverton and Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Harvey Pekar, Spain Rodriguez, and Vaughn Bode, and modern masters including Peter Bagge, Kim Deitch, Dave Sim, Dan Clowes, and Los Bros. Hernandez. The collection contextualizes these original works with 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines, including The Comics Journal. Also included in this collection is The Seduction of the Innocent by Dr. Frederick Wertham--the book that led to one of the largest censorship programs in US history--and the complete transcripts of the senate subcommittee hearings that birthed the Comics Code Authority and, inadvertently, the underground comix movement.

Notes:

Description based on contents viewed on May 28, 2019; title from database home page.

Contains:

Comics journal.

OCLC:

613230327

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.