underground comics

     I can honestly say that before reading Doping Dan in class, i had never read any underground comics before. my own expereince with comics were always mainstream superhero comics so seeing a comic with so much drug use and seeing some others with subtle and not so suble sexual content was very refreshing. i had no idea that underground comics were such a big genre and had such a following. it even had its own animation. animation i swear was for those tripping balls because that stuff gave me headachs and honestly started to irritate the hell out of me. however the comics themselves were awesome to read. they were raw, gritty, and real. they didn't censor themselves and why should they? they were not part of the comics code so they could get away with anything and i love that concept. i do with thaat some of the art wasn't so cartoony but thats my own personal taste. i didn't get a chance to read a lot of the comics passed out in class but the few i skimmed through Doping Dan and a Zap comic. it was clear that this was not the comics i grew up with and thats not a bad thing. mainstream comics can get very confusing very fast due to overly complex stories and other BS, but these underground comics can be about real experiences that people had or completly random things (not particularly my favorite). this genre of comics i feel are more in the light by todays standards by way or the internet and the vast amounts of online comics that some may follow the same tradition of underground comics andso more people especially to day are expoesed to them.