The VCU Libraries has released the latest addition to its Digital Collections: Fan Free Funnies. The Fan Free Funnies were an illustrative example of the growing influence of "underground comix" on young comic artists in the early 1970s, when a number of Fan District residents and VCU fine arts students began creating comic art inspired by the popular underground comix scene. In the spring of 1973, VCU's student newspaper The Commonwealth Times took advantage of this phenomenon and produced three issues of an all-comics black-and-white tabloid called Fan Free Funnies. All three issues are presented in their entirety. The collection includes artwork from well-known VCU alumni Charles Vess and Bill Nelson.
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