Jay Kinney was an active participant in the underground comix movement from 1968 through the ’70s and into the ’80s. He co-founded the romance comic satire, Young Lust, founded and edited Anarchy Comics, and contributed to numerous other comics. He served as editor of Whole Earth’s CoEvolution Quarterly before founding Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions. His other books have included: Hidden Wisdom, The Inner West, and The Masonic Myth. He recently contributed a chapter on the underground comix movement to Ten Years that Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978 (City Lights). For more from Jay check out his website:
Wildcat Anarchist Comics
SKU: 9781629631271
Author and Illustrator: Donald Rooum • Foreword by Jay Kinney • Colorist: Jayne Clementson
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629631271
Published: 7/2016
Format: Paperback
Size: 7 x 10
Page count: 128
Subjects: Art-Comics/Politics-Anarchism
Praise
“It is not only a work of genius, but of great originality, using
outrageous knockabout comedy to convey serious ideas . . . this
strangely effective technique of using utter farce to get below
intellectual defences is successful in getting us to face challenges
that no mere political pamphleteering could do. And we anarchists, with
our eyes open, must accept that we too can be ridiculous in the
passionate pursuit of our ideals.”
—Tony Gibson, Freedom
Anarchy Comics: The Complete Collection
SKU: 9781604865318
Author: Jay Kinney
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781604865318
Published: 12/2012
Format: Paperback
Size: 10 x 7
Page count: 224
Subjects: Comics/Politics
Praise
“60’s counterculture, supposedly political, mostly concerned itself
with hedonism and self-focused individualism, as did the underground
comix it engendered. Jay Kinney’s and Paul Mavrides’ Anarchy Comics,
to which all the scene’s most artistically and politically adventurous
creators gravitated, was an almost singular exception. Combining a grasp
of Anarchy’s history and principles with a genuinely anarchic and
experimental approach to the form itself, Anarchy Comics represents a blazing pinnacle of what the underground was, and what it could have been. A brave and brilliant collection.”
—Alan Moore, celebrated comic writer and creator of V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and numerous other comics and novels
“Anarchy Comics was an education I never got in school. I
learned more deep truths about the way human megatribes operate (while
at the same time being greatly amused by the superb art and writing)
than from any textbook. Decades later, the insights I gleaned from these
brilliant comics still affect the way I view global events.”
—Mark Frauenfelder, founder of boingboing.net
“Thrill to this recently disinterred archeological fragment from a lost civilization about to be reinvented. Anarchy Comics is a dream come true.”
—Mark Rudd, founding member of the Weather Underground and author of the recent memoir, Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
“In the late ’70s and early ’80s we briefly had a comic voice that
told our history (IWW, Spanish Civil War, Kronstadt), illustrated our
culture (Brecht, communes, Yippies), and skewered our nemeses (Lenin,
Mao, Trotsky), all with a large but necessary dose of self-deprecating
humor. That was Anarchy Comics, and finally we can read it again!”
—Josh MacPhee, co-editor of Signal, founder of justseeds.org
“Anarchy Comics, revisited here, with an ardent introduction
by its principal editor, Jay Kinney, was a wonder of the underground
comics world. Perhaps it might be better described as a wonder of the
fading comics world, because times had grown difficult for the genre and
Kinney was pulling out the stops to show off what was really funny and
insightful in the genre at large, extending them into another era. Anarchy
belongs to the last third of the twentieth century, and yet has lost
none of its power for today’s troubled world. Go to the original,
reader—look and learn!”
—Paul Buhle, founder of Radical America and Cultural Correspondence, editor of the Encyclopedia of Radical Art
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