Some time ago, SciFi Wire reported:
The underground comix of the ’60s and ’70s were NSFW long before any of us had ever heard of NSFW. Often available only in head shops, these alternative publications delivered a dose of sex, drugs and violence then missing from mainstream comic books.
Mickey the Pixel has an entire Flickr set. Be warned. Many of the comics covers in the set are NSFW.
Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics Code Authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence. They were most popular in the United States between 1968 and 1975 and in 1973 and 1974 in the United Kingdom.
Produced by people like Robert Crumb or Gilbert Shelton, comix were popular with the hippie counterculture scene. Punk had its own comic artists like Gary Panter. Long after their heyday underground comix gained prominence with films and television shows influenced by the movement and with mainstream comic books, but their legacy is most obvious with alternative comics.
