Gilbert Shelton attended university in Austin, TX, where he became editor of the student magazine, The Texas Ranger. This was to prove Shelton’s last “real job.” For in 1967, after contributing to various underground comix with his earliest character, Wonder Wart-Hog, and designing posters for rock concerts, Shelton created the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. In 1969 he and some friends from Texas moved to San Francisco to set up Rip Off Press from which Freak Brothers strips were soon syndicated, borrowed (or stolen!) by a host of American underground newspapers and magazines. Shelton currently lives in Paris, France, with his wife and three cats.
Radical America Komiks
SKU: 9781629635675
Editor: Gilbert Shelton • Introduction: Paul Buhle • Foreword: Jay Kinney
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629635675
Published: 12/2018
Format: Paperback, mobi, ePub, PDF
Size: 7 x 10
Page count: 64
Subjects: Art-Comics / History-U.S., 1960s
Praise
“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
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Reviews
- Radical America Komiks in Staf Magazine (Spanish)
- Komiks from the Underground: the Radicalism of Gilbert Shelton on CounterPunch
- PM Press Reissues Radical America Komiks, Proving There Is Still Hope For Humanity
Interviews
- ‘A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel’
- Paul Buhle talking about A Full Life: James Connolly the Irish Rebel on Law & Disorder Radio May 23rd, 2016
- Gilbert Shelton, Famed Freak Bros Artist, and Graphic Novel Publisher Paul Buhle