Tag Archives: underground comix

03/25/2021 · 3:25 am

The Thirty Year Niche

This year represents a personal milestone for me, in that I have now been creating and self-publishing my own comics for thirty years.

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Filed under Bad Influences, Comix Classic & Current, Faint Signals, Girls of BIUL, Magazine Rack, Site Stuff

Tagged as #tbt, 1990s, 1991, 2021, Anarchy Comics, Art Speigelman, Bad Shape, Bands I Useta Like, behind the scenes, Bettie Page, Bob Burden, Bob Fingerman, Bob Sikoryak, breasts, Chris Ware, Dave Stevens, Dennis Worden, Doug Allen, Drop Dead, drugs, Eros Comics, Georgia, Gilbert Shelton, Glenn Head, Greg Irons, Greg Theakston, Julie Doucet, Kaz, Krsytine Kryttre, laughter, Lemmings, Mack White, Mark Beyer, Mark Newgarden, Mike the Pod, Mike The Pod Comix, Poddism, R. Crumb, Rand Holmes, S. Clay Wilson, Sam Hurt, Savannah, Savannah Mall, Subgenius Foundation, underground comix, vaginas, VHS, Wayne White

07/23/2016 · 5:11 pm

Blocklisting

Facebook and Twitter have a very appealing form of casual censorship; if you have a difference of opinion with another user, you can block them.

Did someone infer that Islam is dangerous? Make them disappear. Is “Black Lives Matter” not being treated with the utmost solemnity and reverence? Bye-bye. No need to empathize or try to understand a different point of view; it’s better to treat opposing ideas as annoyances, to be clinically expunged.

I’m not warning you against social media, I’m saying see it for what it is; a method of grouping people by their beliefs and predilections, so they can be monitored and controlled. By companies, government, and people who have more money. That’s all the Internet is anymore. It’s not about sharing information. It’s about controlling who sees it. Continue reading →

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Tagged as 2016 election, blacklisting, censorship, Facebook, groupthink, Internet, Josef Stalin, old internet, political correctness, Social Justice Warriors, social media, Stalinism, Twitter, underground, underground comix

04/08/2016 · 6:03 pm

Stickers All Over The Door

Those of us who were children in the late 1970s remember a form of schoolyard wampum that was ubiquitous at the time. We traded them with each other, and bought them from the corner sweet shop with our allowance, for 25 cents a pack. We’d huddle and inspect each other’s collections, muttering “got it, got it, need it, got it, need it.” We carefully stored them in plastic sleeves for the future, in meticulous fashion.

Haha! I was totally kidding about that last one. We stuck them all over our bedroom door, until our parents grew furious and made us scrape them off with a putty knife, turning them into garbage.

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