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Radical America Komiks by Paul Buhle (2019, Trade Paperback)
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A half century after its original appearance, Radical America Komiks retains its rebellious spirit and its rollicking humour.Product Identifiers
PublisherPM Press
ISBN-101629635677
ISBN-139781629635675
eBay Product ID (ePID)25038371258
Product Key Features
GenreComics & Graphic Novels
Publication Year2019
LanguageEnglish
Artist/WriterPaul Buhle
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.2in
Item Length10in
Item Weight0.4 Oz
Item Width7in
Additional Product Features
Number of Pages64 Pages
Reviews"There is a certain irony that Radical America Komiks is likely to be one of the best-remembered parts of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). That the visual and the satirical turn out to have a longer shelf life than the polemical would perplex, and more, the members of SDS who encountered the wonderful comix drawn and assembled by Gilbert Shelton. Viva comics, no matter how it is spelled!" --James Danky, Underground Classics Illustrated, " Radical America Komiks is a treasury of Austin's radical artists from the 1960s and '70s, especially Gilbert Shelton, truly a global figure of comix innovation." --Thorne Dreyer, founding editor of The Rag, "The one-off publication of Radical America Komiks in 1969 was arguably the most fully developed expression of this cross-fertilization and as such we are grateful to PM Press for publishing a replica of the ground-breaking comic book." -- Louis Proyect, https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/25/komiks-from-the-underground-the-radicalism-of-gilbert-shelton/, " Radical America Komiks not only provides an unparalleled sense of how leftist politics and avant-garde narrative art intersected at the end of the 1960s, it anticipates many of the innovations and tropes we associate with the alternative comics movement of the 1980s and 1990s." --Kent Worcester, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, "Radical America Komiks was the funniest issue of that whole series of New Left magazines because it included the best cartoonists in the underground. Gilbert Shelton, master humorist, creator of the Furry Freak Brothers, edited the extra-thick comic book as one of the earliest projects at his fledgling company Rip Off Press. Nothing like funnies to liven up political discussions." --Patrick Rosenkranz, author of Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution "Radical America Komiks is a treasury of Austin's radical artists from the 1960s and '70s, especially Gilbert Shelton, truly a global figure of comix innovation." --Thorne Dreyer, founding editor of The Rag "Radical America Komiks not only provides an unparalleled sense of how leftist politics and avant-garde narrative art intersected at the end of the sixties, it anticipates many of the innovations and tropes we associate with the alternative comics movement of the 1980s and 1990s." --Kent Worcester, coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium "There is a certain irony that Radical America Komiks is likely to be one of the best-remembered parts of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). That the visual and the satirical turn out to have a longer shelf life than the polemical would perplex, and more, the members of SDS who encountered the wonderful comix drawn and assembled by Gilbert Shelton. Viva comics, no matter how it is spelled!" --James Danky, Underground Classics Illustrated, " Radical America Komiks was the funniest issue of that whole series of New Left magazines because it included the best cartoonists in the underground. Gilbert Shelton, master humorist, creator of the Furry Freak Brothers, edited the extra-thick comic book as one of the earliest projects at his fledgling company Rip Off Press. Nothing like funnies to liven up political discussions." --Patrick Rosenkranz, author of Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution, In 1969, activist and history grad student Paul Buhle published a special graphic issue of his SDS journal, Radical America . He enlisted Austin-based cartoonist of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers fame, Gilbert Shelton, to edit what would be the first merger of New Left politics with the burgeoning counterculture and underground comix movements. Paul Buhle and Gilbert Shelton are Thorne Dreyer's guests on Rag Radio. Now, in 2018, Radical America Komiks has been reissued with a new introduction by Buhle and foreword by Jay Kinney. Paul, a prominent historian of the Left and popular culture critic, now publishes graphic novels and radical comics. Shelton, whose Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers--characterized by Buhle as "totemic" figures in the counterculture--first appeared in Austin's The Rag , also created Wonder Wart-Hog, Fat Freddie's Cat, and Feds 'N' Heads. Shelton and Robert Crumb are generally considered the preeminent artists of the comix movement. Gilbert joins us from Paris, France, where he now lives. --Radio interview, Rag Radio, KOOP 91.7-FM, https://archive.org/details/RagRadio2018-12-16-GilbertSheltonPaulBuhle, "Over 42 goofy pages, readers were presented with anarchic, zany strips that pushed all the boundaries of common decency for that period. Included among these was one of the earliest appearances of Shelton's own Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, the goofball stoners who went on to become a cult classic." --Andrew Stewart, https://washingtonbabylon.com/pm-press-reissues-radical-america-komiks-proving-there-is-still-hope-for-humanity/
Book TitleRadical America Komiks
Lccn2018-931530
Target AudienceTrade
IllustratedYes
TopicNonfiction / General
Lc Classification NumberPn6726.R34 2019
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- 25 Dec, 2023
appropriate title
Being that it is an old library issue I was quite happy at the excellent condition it is in. But it's also a Piece of History dating from the 60s-70s public uprisings in this country trying to install a real democracy and against the militarized corporate police/war state we have fallen ever-deeper into since then. It gives a bit of general background as to why it was produced, who and where/when, which helps the untutored reader to understand a bit more about that history behind the comix themselves. Adds right into my home lending library of alternative thinking and history that we are so sorely missing in other venues.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 19 May, 2021
GREAT BOOK
GREAT BOOKVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
