Lollipop Magazine

Underground Station – Column

January 1, 2000

Here’s some news that made me want to spend the entire month alone in bed: Kitchen Sink, one of the primary and initial publishers of underground comics (UGs), officially sank, to coin an unfortunate pun. One of the oldest and best of the underground comics publishers is gone.

Underground Station – Column

June 1, 1999

Comics Value Annual 1999 Edition by Alex Malloy is up against the mighty Overstreet Price Guide, but finally recognize underground comics titles.

Underground Station – Column

April 1, 1999

Collected Checkered Demon features stories from the comics where the demon out-fights, out-drinks, and out-fucks bikers, pirates, aliens, and vampires.

Underground Station – Column

January 1, 1999

Waiting for Food, is all restaurant placemat drawings, doodles created while Crumb waited for waiters.

Underground Station – Column

September 1, 1998

If, ungentle reader, you’re so rich in attitude, then how come you don’t have any Loompanics books? Are you dazed and blasé, or just out of that loop?

Underground Station – Column

April 1, 1998

One handsome book that I can recommend unequivocally is Buddy Go Home by Peter Bagge. This is Vol. 4 of the Buddy Bradley stories from Hate.

Underground Station – Column

March 1, 1998

When I started collecting underground comix (u.g.s) in the late ’60s I ran up against two conventions that I could neither abide nor fight.

Underground Station – Column

December 1, 1997

Juxtapoz is a West Coast magazine produced by Robert Williams, one of the earliest of the Zap contributors.

Underground Station – Column

October 1, 1997

R. Crumb Coffee Table Book will feature some Crumb stories in color for the first time, some unpublished work, and photos of his oil paintings and sculptures.

Underground Station – Column

July 1, 1997

David Britton’s Adventures of Meng and Ecker. Banned in England in 1992. About 260 pages of intricate art that is meaner than the famous junkyard dog.