The Politics of Underground Comix and the Environmental Crisis

Rifas explores the politics of underground comix and the environmental crisis. Underground comix appeared at a time when many people regarded the pollution and degradation of natural environments as an immediate crisis. Rather than passively 'reflecting' public opinion, underground cartoon...

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Published inInternational journal of comic art Vol. 20; no. 2; p. 128
Main Author Rifas, Leonard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Drexel Hill John A Lent, Ed & Pub 01.10.2018
Subjects
Cartoonists
Cartoons
Comics
Environmentalism
Politics
Pollution
Public opinion
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Summary:Rifas explores the politics of underground comix and the environmental crisis. Underground comix appeared at a time when many people regarded the pollution and degradation of natural environments as an immediate crisis. Rather than passively 'reflecting' public opinion, underground cartoonists actively expressed their own sense of the planetary emergency. Although only a few underground comix focused directly on relations between humans and nonhuman nature, those works hold a key importance for understanding the origins and attitudes of the comix movement. The publishing practices of underground comix opened a space for greater freedom of expression in comic book format, and shaped the views that the environmentalist 'post-classical comix' of the late 1970s expressed.
ISSN:1531-6793