Underground comics have always bee a subject of intense debate (as far as there reception in popular media)
comics about everything from sexual perversion to deep fatalistic dread. they stand as a complete outlier of what can and can be done with comics. under ground comics are what video games are to 3D media as in, they serve to show what's exceptable in art form and what isnt'. and even when it is unacceptable how it can be made into something that isn't just a grotesque display of "just because you can doesn't mean you should"
the comic "Gay comix" was the text I choose this week, one that was written by and about the life in times of gay people in america. it's not some particularly hedonistic display of balls to the walls sex most of the comics. it's done with poise and a lot of humor that doesn't come at the coast of the social group it's portraying. alot of the comic is about them being gay but it's also not. not all of it is a joke it's the story of different peoples lives and how their LGBTQ'ness has affected their lives.
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