COMMIES FROM MARS - The Red Planet, The Collected Works

GARCIA, JERRY (foreword) : BOXELL, TIM (editor) : WILSON, S. CLAY : KUPER, PETER (contributors)

ISBN 10: 0867193433 / ISBN 13: 9780867193435

Published by LAST GASP of SAN FRANCISO, San Francisco, CA, 1986

About this Item

Trade Paperback - 1st. Print - As New - You didn?t think they called it ?the red planet? because of the color of its soil, did you? Commies From Mars combines a fondness for alien invader science-fiction with good old-fashioned anti-Communist paranoia and a hippie?s love of sex, jokes, and sly humor. Ted Boxell was the organizing force behind this anthology series, and he invited a collection of underground comic artists to contribute short stories to each issue. Although all based around the theme of Communist invaders from Mars, each has its own take on the subject. Expect to see everything from depictions of President Reagan as a Martian lizard creature, to lowbrow alien sex strips, to truly devilish tales of Martians using our own stupidity to help them destroy our world.

Seller Inventory # 008350

Bibliographic Details

• Title: COMMIES FROM MARS - The Red Planet, The Collected Works
• Publisher: LAST GASP of SAN FRANCISO, San Francisco, CA
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0867193433
• ISBN 13: 9780867193435
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: WILSON, S. CLAY : KUPER, PETER : IRONS, GREG : RODRIGUES, SPAIN
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • AMAZING COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS

About this title

Synopsis

This is a great collection of an unfortunately neglected example of the post-Zap explosion of underground comics - this features work by many stalwarts of the Zap! crew (Crumb, Robt. Williams, Spain Rodriguez, and S. Clay Wilson alongside Tim Boxell), as well as a slew of fine-but-forgotten artists and writers.

About the Author

Tim Boxell, a comics artist, writer and editor whose art was sometimes signed "Grisly", is best known for his underground comix version of the novel 'The Image of the Beast'. Tim Boxell went on to become a movie director in the 1990s.