There is a vigorous avant garde cartoonists' movement in America today. Most of the artists involved in it are unknown to the general public but one of them, Robert Crumb, has developed a following that extends beyond the hippie subculture into a variety of social classes. (p. 677)

By now a number of underground comics have been published…. Perhaps the best known of them is Zap, out of San Francisco, which was created by Crumb in 1967. It was one of the first underground comics to be published….

Zap has something for everyone—sex, violence, stories about people ranging from hippies to lower middle class characters. It's an All-American publication. (p. 679)

[Crumb is] one of the finest comic book artists to come to the fore since the 40's….

The first time I met him he showed me a project he was working on—a cartoon novel (which is an unusual...