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I appreciate their wanting to create aand celebratory record of this period of comic history but I think these guys REALLY understate how misogynistic 99% of comix were in the boom. And I'm not even talking about Robert Crumb (at least he was honest about how much of a freak he was) there are two women in this entire book and dozens of weird anatomically lacking pinups by dudes who thought they were the next Marx

Love this book. The handful of essays written by the very people who were a part of the scene (both artists and publishers) are fantastic. A great insiders look. Other books that I've read about the time are usually a bit dull, relying on stats and timelines. The selection of art just add to the importance of this as a fantastic artifact of the comix scene.

kind of bouncing around through this book. I can't recommend this book enough, the photos of the original art alone is worth it, but the few essay's I've read so far have been a fantastic look into the comix world at the time by artists and publishers.