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It traces early countercultural artists who used visual satire to express political dissent and social exploration, marked by “x” comix identity and an uncensored creative environment. The exhibition connects alternative newspaper ecosystems, distribution and copyright practices, and the subculture’s impact on later graphic novels, self-published zines, and creators worldwide, supported by museum and arts funding.","Underground Classics The Transformation of Comics into Comix, 1963–1990  \nMay 2–July 12, 2009  \nUnderground Classics presents a unique genre of artistic work that documented a volatile period of American history and the changes that followed. Early comix artists, rebelling against traditional norms, boldly visualized the political dissent and social exploration of the time. The “x” distinguishes comix—and its celebration of sex, drugs, and rock ’n‘ roll—from comics produced by mainstream publishers. Readers were exposed to a completely new kind of graphic storytelling. However, imagery and subject matter alone didn’t differentiate comix from the mainstream; cartoonists in the underground received royalties for their work, retained ownership of their original art, automatically held copyrights, developed an alternative distribution system, and reveled in an uncensored environment. Although comix artists were more concerned with expressing themselves than making a profit, the thriving subculture challenged the economics of publishing as well as social and artistic conventions. Today’s cartoonists assume the creative freedom and economic clout that these artists forged.  \nThe work of artists like R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman is now well known, yet that of many important contemporaries who stirred the artistic cauldron in the 1960s is rarely seen. Underground Classics gathers artwork of these artists to present a fuller survey and deeper understanding of the comix counterculture. Much of the work on view is original art that shows traces of the artists’ process and ideas.  \nAmerican underground comix profoundly influenced subsequent generations of cartoonists both domestically and abroad; they changed the economics of comics publishing at all levels; and they even influenced the cartoonists who preceded them. Legendary cartoonists like Will Eisner credits undergrounds with his mid-life decision to create A Contract with God, which launched the graphic novel revolution in 1978. The booming genres of graphic novels and self-published ’zines benefit from the comix artists’ revolution of the 1960s.  \nGenerous local support for this exhibition has been provided by the Chazen Museum of Art Council, Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission with additional funds from the Overture Foundation, Hilldale Fund, Brittingham Fund, and Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.  \n1963–1973  \nBy 1963, there was a growing sense of change in America: the space race, the civil rights movement, the conflict in Vietnam, and the sexual revolution were all underway. Americans were emerging from a decade of peace, domestic prosperity, and social conformity. A rebellious counterculture was finding its voice and protesting the established norms, with the help of television and newspapers.  \nUnderground comix were nurtured by what came to be called “alternative” or “underground”newspapers. The pioneering Los Angeles Free Press appeared in 1964, to be followed by the San Francisco Oracle, the East Village Other, and hundreds of others nationwide. The editors of these papers combined a free-swinging journalistic style with a strong visual sensibility, attracting a small army of artists whose wild graphics and satire exploded in their pages, and in leaflets, posters,  \nt-shirts, and comic books. The artists, writers, and editors of the undergrounds committed themselves to building the Movement, a new culture that embraced and endorsed the values of young Americans—namely, sex, drugs, and rock ’n‘ roll. The Underground Press Syndicate, formed in 1967, allowed its papers to freely reprint content from the member papers.  \nArtists like Frank Stack (aka Foolbert Sturgeon), Jack Jackson (Jaxon), and Joel Beck were first on the scene, producing important regional underground comix. The first comix to have significant national impact were R. 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