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[An] illuminating history of the counterculture comics movement and...how it perfectly reflected the rapidly changing norms of the baby boomer generation and its enduring impact on pop culture today. -- Publishers Weekly A fascinating deep dig into a unique subculture populated...whose rude, jarring, and far-out works of art changed the face of American humor. -- Gregg Turkinton, comedian/actor A free-wheeling, frank account...Doherty pokes into every corner of the scene...Lively, well researched, and full of telling anecdotes. -- Kirkus Reviews A welcome addition to an under-analyzed legacy of the free-spirited 1960s. -- San Francisco Chronicle Doherty expertly details the players and events that led to an artistic renaissance. -- Ho Che Anderson, creator of Sand & Fury It's impeccably researched, sharply written, and opens a portal back to that old, weird America that found its mind by losing it a little. -- Reid Mitenbuler, author of Wild Minds The story of underground comix is not just important, it's as American as an apple pie laced with LSD. -- Kliph Nesteroff, author of We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

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Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and is the author of This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground (Little, Brown, 2004). His reporting, essays, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, and Fantagraphics's The Best American Comics Criticism, among others. He has also served as a judge for the comics industry's Eisner Awards. Liam Dicosimo is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting.

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