Counter Culture Comics

During the 1960-70's, counterculture was the culture. What was considered taboo or unacceptable was everything the young people of that time wanted to do, and this reached into every facet of life. From the music, to the clothes, to the hair, and--of course--the art. Comic books are no exception to this, and the previously strictly stylized comics of the Silver age with its idealized men and damsels in distress, became a much grittier, even unpleasant style.

Characters look more freeform and cartoonish, and do things previously unheard of in "normal" comics. Drugs, sex, nudity, and gritty, gorey death in all its detail. The Underground comics of the time were a representation of everything the generations before then hadn't been interested in, under the guise of stylized entertainment.

In the comic I read, Fat Freddy's Cat, the style is excessively cartoonish but covers gritty material unbefitting of such a style. This illustrates my point perfectly of the values of the time being expressed through comics, and their important role as cultural time capsules.