Considered by pop-culture critics to be the quintessential underground comic book of the 1960s, Zap Comix can trace its genealogy to the publication of Jack Jaxon's God Nose in 1963. By 1999, there were estimated to be more than two million...

Zap Comix is the best-known of the underground comics that emerged as part of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s. The first issue of Zap was published in San Francisco in early 1968. It featured the work of satirical cartoonist Robert Crumb....

Three decades ago, an ex-greeting card designer named Robert Crumb made copies of his comic artwork and hawked them on Haight St. from a baby carriage. Zap Comix and a new genre of "underground comix" was born. Racy and anarchic, Zap rebelled against...

It all started when the mail came in: "This crappy comic stuff again?" "More of the same junk?" "Should we just end Comix?" Boom. Thunder crashes. The clouds part. A voice bellows out of the sky. "YOU DO AND YOU'RE DEAD, INSECTS!" We're...