Notable underground comix
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- Air Pirates Funnies (Dan O'Neill, others. Sparked a famous copyright lawsuit from Disney)
- All Stars (Rick Griffin)
- American Splendor (Harvey Pekar: writer/ publisher, Robert Crumb, others: art)
- Anarchy Comics (political comic edited by Jay Kinney)
- Arcade (anthology edited by Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman)
- Big Ass Comics (R. Crumb)
- Bijou Funnies (Chicago-based anthology, Jay Lynch and others)
- Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary (Justin Green)
- Bogeyman (Rory Hayes and others)
- Captain Guts (Larry Welz)
- Cheech Wizard (Vaughn Bode)
- Color (Victor Moscoso)
- Comix Book - Marvel Comics attempt at mainstream underground comics
- Coochie Cootie's Men's Comics (Robert Williams)
- Corn Fed Comix (Kim Deitch)
- Cunt Comics (inspired by the Tijuana Bible 8-pagers)
- Dopin' Dan (Ted Richards)
- El Perfecto (R. Crumb and others)
- Felch Cumics (inspired by the Tijuana Bible 8-pagers)
- Feds 'n' Heads (Gilbert Shelton)
- The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (Gilbert Shelton)
- Facts o' Life Sex Education Funnies (benefit comic for a free clinic)
- Funny Aminals (includes first MAUS story by Art Spiegelman)
- Ghost Mother Comics (Mad Peck)
- God Nose (Jaxon) considered by many to be the first underground comic
- Gothic Blimp Works - anthology produced by the East Village Other newspaper
- Heavy Tragi-comics (Greg Irons)
- Hungry Chuck Biscuits (Daniel Clyne and others)
- Hydrogen Bomb and Biological Warfare Funnies (Gilbert Shelton and others)
- Insect Fear (Horror anthology edited by Spain)
- It Ain't Me Babe (anthology edited by Trina Robbins)The first all-woman comic book
- Jiz Comics (inspired by the Tijuana Bible 8-pagers)
- Light (Greg Irons)
- Mad Peck Catalog of Good Stuff (Mad Peck)
- Man from Utopia (Rick Griffin)
- Mr. Natural (comics) (R. Crumb)
- The People's Comics (R. Crumb)
- Projunior (Created by Don Dohler. Drawn by various)
- Radical America Komiks (Gilbert Shelton and others)
- Rip Off Review of Western Culture
- Scud: The Disposable Assassin (Rob Schrab)
- Short Order Comix (first issue has Art Spiegelman's autobiographical "Prisoner on the Hell Planet")
- Skull Comix (EC style horror comix edited by Greg Irons)
- Slow Death (ecological comic and EC style sci-fi comix)
- Snarf (humor anthology)
- Snappy Sammy Smoot (Skip Williamson)
- Snatch (inspired by the Tijuana Bible 8-pagers)
- Snoid (R. Crumb)
- Subvert Comix featuring Trashman - Agent of the Sixth International (Spain Rodriguez and others)
- Tales from the Tube (Rick Griffin and others)
- Tales of the Ozone
- Teenage Horizons of Shangrila
- Thrilling Murder
- Tuff Shit (Robert Williams and others - methadone clinic benefit comix)
- Turned-on Cuties (inspired by the Tijuana Bible 8-pagers)
- Wimmen's Comix (anthology edited by the Wimmen's Comix Collective)
- Witzend (edited by Wallace Wood and Bill Pearson)
- Young Lust (romance comic satire edited by Bill Griffith and Jay Kinney)
- XYZ Comics (R. Crumb)
- Zap Comix (Robert Crumb, Spain Rodriguez, S. Clay Wilson, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, Victor Moscoso)
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Publishers
- Apex Novelties
- Co. and Sons
- Print Mint
- Rip Off Press
- Last Gasp
- Kitchen Sink
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