Underground comics (or comix) are self-published or small press comic books that sprang up in the US in the late 1960s. The movement was centered in San Francisco, but also included important artists and publishers in New York, Chicago and Austin, Texas. Prominent artists associated with this movement include Robert Crumb, Robert Williams, S. Clay Wilson, Skip Williamson, Rick Griffin, Gilbert Shelton, Art Spiegelman, Kim Deitch, Jay Lynch, Spain Rodriguez, Bill Griffith, Justin Green and Trina Robbins. Mainstream comics were t ...

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• Underground comix - Notable underground comix
• Underground comix - Publishers

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Mr. and Mrs. Bland are a wine dealer and a nurse, respectively, who grieve over their low statuses in life and dream of someday opening a restaurant. After Mr. Bland is fired from his job at a wine shop (shortly after an unrelated in-store shooting), the couple are left relatively penniless, and the chances that they will ever realize their dream quickly diminish. Their strife is exacerbated by the fact that they live in an apartment building that is a regul ...

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Eating Raoul, Eating Raoul - Story, Eating Raoul - Major cast

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At Quarry Hill, the Fiskes' intention was to create an artists’ and writers’ retreat, a gathering place for creative and freethinking people. They had two children, Isabella (also called Ladybelle), born August 12, 1950, and William, born February 4, 1954. During the Fifties and early Sixties, the family traveled to keep their children out of the strict public schools of the day. which the Fiskes regarded as "Dark Satanic Mills That Grind Men's Souls to Dust,” in the words of William Blake. The Fiskes were opposed to spanking [7] or co ...

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Quarry Hill Creative Center, Quarry Hill Creative Center - Personal history, Quarry Hill Creative Center - Creation of Quarry Hill, Quarry Hill Creative Center - Expansion

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Topps - Entry into the baseball card market. In 1951, Topps produced its first baseball cards in two different sets known today as Red Backs and Blue Backs. Each set contained 52 cards, like a deck of playing cards, and in fact the cards could be used to play a game that would simulate the events of a baseball game. Also like playing cards, the cards had rounded corners and were blank on one side, which was colored either red or blue (hence the names given to these sets). The other side featured the ...

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Topps, Topps - Company history, Topps - Topps baseball cards: A history, Topps - Entry into the baseball card market, Topps - Competition for player contracts, Topps - Consolidation of a monopoly, Topps - The monopoly and its end, Topps - Topps in the modern baseball card industry, Topps - Card design, Topps - Use of statistics, Topps - Artwork and photography, Topps - Errors variations and special cards, Topps - Football cards, Topps - Trading cards for other sports, Topps - Non-sports products, Topps - Candy and confectionery items, Topps - Editorial trading cards

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Deutsch - Deutch. Howard Deutch, film director John M. Deutch ...

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Deutsch, Deutsch - A German family name, Deutsch - Non Family Names, Deutsch - Derivated Variations, Deutsch - Deutch, Deutsch - Deitsch and variations, Deutsch - Deitch pronounced like /diyč/ /dayč/, Deutsch - Daitch

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List of zines - Comics. All kinds of comix zines: independents, compilations, comics criticism, etc... Air Pirates Funnies (Dan O'Neill, others. Sparked a famous copyright lawsuit from Disney) Anonymous Boy (Anonymous Boy) Arcade (anthology edited by Bill Griffith and Art Spiegelman) Bijou Funnies (Chicago-based anthology, Jay Lynch and others) Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary (Justin Green) Bogeyman (Rory Ha ...

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List of zines, List of zines - Categories, List of zines - Comics, List of zines - Education, List of zines - Music, List of zines - Personal, List of zines - Politics, List of zines - Pop Culture, List of zines - Queer & Trans, List of zines - Race & Ethnicity, List of zines - Reference, List of zines - Religion & Spirituality, List of zines - Sciences, List of zines - Science Fiction & Fantasy, List of zines - Sex, List of zines - Social Awareness, List of zines - Sports Video Games & Leisure, List of zines - Travel, List of zines - Visual Arts, List of zines - Literary Arts, List of zines - Women, List of zines - Zines to be Categorized

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In addition to baseball, Topps also produced cards for American football in 1951, which are known as the Magic set. For football cards Bowman dominated the field, and Topps did not try again until 1955, when it released an All-American set with a mix of active players and retired stars. After buying out Bowman, Topps took over the market the following year. Since then, Topps has sold football cards every season. However, the emergence of the American Football League in 1960 to compete with the established National Footba ...

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Topps, Topps - Company history, Topps - Topps baseball cards: A history, Topps - Entry into the baseball card market, Topps - Competition for player contracts, Topps - Consolidation of a monopoly, Topps - The monopoly and its end, Topps - Topps in the modern baseball card industry, Topps - Card design, Topps - Use of statistics, Topps - Artwork and photography, Topps - Errors variations and special cards, Topps - Football cards, Topps - Trading cards for other sports, Topps - Non-sports products, Topps - Candy and confectionery items, Topps - Editorial trading cards

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Topps also makes cards for other major American professional sports. After football, its next venture was into ice hockey, with a 1954 set featuring players from the four National Hockey League franchises located in the U.S. at the time (Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, and New York Rangers). Topps did not make a serious effort to take on Parkhurst Products, the leading Canadian hockey card manufacturer, for a couple more years. After Parkhurst disappeared from the market in the 1960s, Topps then reached an agreem ...

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Topps, Topps - Company history, Topps - Topps baseball cards: A history, Topps - Entry into the baseball card market, Topps - Competition for player contracts, Topps - Consolidation of a monopoly, Topps - The monopoly and its end, Topps - Topps in the modern baseball card industry, Topps - Card design, Topps - Use of statistics, Topps - Artwork and photography, Topps - Errors variations and special cards, Topps - Football cards, Topps - Trading cards for other sports, Topps - Non-sports products, Topps - Candy and confectionery items, Topps - Editorial trading cards

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Although Topps did not invent the concept of baseball cards, its dominance in the field basically allowed the company to define people's expectations of what a baseball card would look like. In addition to establishing a standard size, Topps developed various design elements that are considered typical of baseball cards. Some of these were the company's own innovations, while some were ideas borrowed from others that Topps helped popularize. ...

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Topps, Topps - Company history, Topps - Topps baseball cards: A history, Topps - Entry into the baseball card market, Topps - Competition for player contracts, Topps - Consolidation of a monopoly, Topps - The monopoly and its end, Topps - Topps in the modern baseball card industry, Topps - Card design, Topps - Use of statistics, Topps - Artwork and photography, Topps - Errors variations and special cards, Topps - Football cards, Topps - Trading cards for other sports, Topps - Non-sports products, Topps - Candy and confectionery items, Topps - Editorial trading cards

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On April 10, 1946, Irving Fiske, (born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, on March 5, 1908), a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker, and his wife, Barbara Hall Fiske, (born Isabelle Daniel Hall in Tucson, Arizona on September 9, 1919), an artist, bought 140 acres (0.6 km²) of mountain, meadow, and brook land in Rochester, Vermont. They had been married on January 8, 1946. Irving, a 1928 graduate of Cornell University, had worked for the Federal Writer's Project of the WPA ( Works Progress Administration) during the ...

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Quarry Hill Creative Center, Quarry Hill Creative Center - Personal history, Quarry Hill Creative Center - Creation of Quarry Hill, Quarry Hill Creative Center - Expansion

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Deutsch - Deitch pronounced like /diyč/ /dayč/. Gene Deitch Kim Deitch Deutsch - Daitch. Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex, see soundex ...

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Deutsch, Deutsch - A German family name, Deutsch - Non Family Names, Deutsch - Derivated Variations, Deutsch - Deutch, Deutsch - Deitsch and variations, Deutsch - Deitch pronounced like /diyč/ /dayč/, Deutsch - Daitch

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Topps itself was founded in 1938, but the company can trace its roots back to an earlier firm, American Leaf Tobacco. Founded in 1890 by Morris Shorin, the American Leaf Tobacco Co. imported tobacco to the United States and sold it to other tobacco companies. (American Leaf Tobacco should not be confused with the American Tobacco Company, which monopolized US-grown tobacco during this period.) American Leaf Tobacco encountered difficulties as World War I cut off Turkish supplies of tobacco to the United States, and later as a r ...

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Topps, Topps - Company history, Topps - Topps baseball cards: A history, Topps - Entry into the baseball card market, Topps - Competition for player contracts, Topps - Consolidation of a monopoly, Topps - The monopoly and its end, Topps - Topps in the modern baseball card industry, Topps - Card design, Topps - Use of statistics, Topps - Artwork and photography, Topps - Errors variations and special cards, Topps - Football cards, Topps - Trading cards for other sports, Topps - Non-sports products, Topps - Candy and confectionery items, Topps - Editorial trading cards

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