By Chris Ware
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When she first started collaborating with Crumb in the early 1970s on Dirty Laundry Comics, Kominsky-Crumb’s presence on the page—they each drew themselves—inspired ugly responses from some members of Crumb’s underground fan base, who were appalled by her divergence from his more practiced-looking style: “She may be a good lay but keep her off the fucking page,” was typical of the angry letters Crumb received, he reports. “It energized me to think of those fuming twerps wringing their sweaty palms in disgust when they had to look at my tortured scratching next to your fine rendering,” Kominsky-Crumb cheerfully remarks in the aforementioned introduction (Dirty 4).
With titles such as Wild, Smudge, Squire, Foo, Blasé, Sick, and Klepto. ) These fanzines were self-published cheaply, mostly by teenage boys, in small runs, and informally distributed. A large majority of their creators became underground cartoonists. It was in a 1964 newsletter circulated to members of the Amateur Press Association that the term graphic novel was first publicly used, by Richard Kyle; the phrase was subsequently borrowed by Bill Spicer in his fanzine Graphic Story World. 39 The underground press appeared in 1965, when new technology in the offset printing process made it feasible to produce small runs of a tabloid newspaper inexpensively: the Los Angeles Free Press was followed by the Berkeley Barb, which became the journal of the rising antiwar movement, followed by the East Village Other, the San Francisco Oracle, Detroit’s Fifth Estate, and the Chicago Seed.
I told myself, ‘There! It’s possible to do very serious work with this means of storytelling’” (Hill 18–19). . [It is] something so fundamentally influential that I don’t even see it” (“An Interview” 1013). While Maus is so often credited by those working in nonfiction comics, as we recognize in Satrapi and Bechdel’s comments, we may trace a genealogy that actually begins with Justin Green’s influential reimagining of the subject of comics. Sexual explicitness is another feature of this first autobiographical comics story that set the stage for later work.