With over 75,000 pages of original material from the 1960s to today, along with more than 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines, Underground and independent comics, comix, and graphic novels is the first-ever scholarly online collection for researchers and students of adult comic books and graphic novels. The comic book has shown itself to be a medium capable of both the offensive and the sublime. This collection documents the entire spectrum of underground and independent North American and European comics and graphic novels. It provides researchers with tools to understand the wealth of material held in the VCU Libraries Special Collections at Cabell Library and its renowned Comic Arts Collection.
Underground comics & graphic novels
With over 75,000 pages of original material from the 1960s to today, along with more than 25,000 pages of interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism from journals, books, and magazines, Underground and independent comics, comix, and graphic novels is the first-ever scholarly online collection for researchers and students of adult comic books and graphic novels. The comic book has shown itself to be a medium capable of both the offensive and the sublime. This collection documents the entire spectrum of underground and independent North American and European comics and graphic novels. It provides researchers with tools to understand the wealth of material held in the VCU Libraries Special Collections at Cabell Library and its renowned Comic Arts Collection.