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  • R. Crumb

    …widely distributed and highly influential Zap Comix. Drawn in a broad, deliberately slapdash style reminiscent of the Fleischer brothers’ Popeye cartoons and George Herriman’s Krazy Kat newspaper strip, Zap and its successors (Despair, Uneeda, Head Comix, and many others) were perfectly attuned to the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.…

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    …widely distributed and highly influential Zap Comix. Drawn in a broad, deliberately slapdash style reminiscent of the Fleischer brothers’ Popeye cartoons and George Herriman’s Krazy Kat newspaper strip, Zap and its successors (Despair, Uneeda, Head Comix, and many others) were perfectly attuned to the counterculture movement of the late 1960s.…

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