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Rip Off Press
Rip Off Press Inc. is a comic book mail order retailer and distributor, better known as the former publisher of adult-themed series like '' The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'' and '' Rip Off Comix'', as well as many other seminal publications from the underground comix era. Founded in 1969 in San Francisco by four friends from Austin, Texas — cartoonists Gilbert Shelton and Jack Jackson, and Fred Todd and Dave Moriaty — Rip Off Press is now run in Auburn, California, by Todd. Rip Off Press is notable for being the first company to publish the fourth edition of the ''Principia Discordia'', a Discordian religious text written by Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley. It was also an early publisher of a booklet on drug manufacturing, ''Psychedelic Chemistry''. History Origins In January 17, 1969, the company was founded in San Francisco by four Texans: Fred Todd, Dave Moriaty, and cartoonists Gilbert Shelton and Jack Jackson. The initial plan was to print rock band promotional p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Shelton
Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940) is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the iconic underground characters '' The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'', '' Fat Freddy's Cat'', and '' Wonder Wart-Hog''. Biography Early life and education Shelton was born in Dallas, Texas, on May 31, 1940. His father, George Shelton, worked for Firestone, which moved the family around the southeast during the 1940s. They settled in Houston, Texas, where he graduated from Lamar High School. He attended Washington and Lee University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his bachelor's degree in the social sciences in 1961. His early cartoons were published in the University of Texas humor magazine '' The Texas Ranger''. Early career Directly after graduation, Shelton moved to New York City and got a job editing automotive magazines, where he would sneak his drawings into print. Early work of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malaclypse The Younger
Gregory Hill (May 21, 1941July 20, 2000), better known by the pen name Malaclypse the Younger, was an American author. He is listed as author of the ''Principia Discordia'', which was written with Kerry Wendell Thornley (a.k.a. Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst) and others. He was also adapted as a character in '' The Illuminatus! Trilogy'' (1975). During the early years of circulation of the ''Principia Discordia'', rumors claimed that the author of the book was Richard Nixon, Timothy Leary, or Robert Anton Wilson; or that the book and Malaclypse the Younger were both fictional inventions of Robert Anton Wilson, as with Abdul Alhazred's '' Necronomicon''. Biography Gregory H. Hill was born in California on Wednesday, May 21, 1941. He worked for Western Union while a young man in the Southern California area of Whittier, California. Around 1958 or 1959 while still a teenager, he, Kerry Thornley and others began working on the Discordian religion. In 1965, the first edition of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Dog Productions
Chester Leo "Chet" Helms (August 2, 1942 – June 25, 2005), often called the father of San Francisco's 1967 " Summer of Love," was a music promoter and a counterculture figure in San Francisco during its hippie period in the mid- to-late 1960s. Helms was the founder and manager of Big Brother and the Holding Company and recruited Janis Joplin as its lead singer. He was a producer and organizer, helping to stage free concerts and other cultural events at Golden Gate Park, the backdrop of San Francisco's Summer of Love in 1967, as well as at other venues, including the Avalon Ballroom. He was the first producer of psychedelic light-show concerts at the Fillmore and the Avalon Ballroom and was instrumental in helping to develop bands that had the distinctive San Francisco Sound. Helms died June 25, 2005, of complications of a stroke. He was 62. Childhood Chester Leo Helms was born in Santa Maria, California, the eldest of three sons. His parents were Chester and Novell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Sheridan (cartoonist)
Dave Sheridan (June 7, 1943 – March 28, 1982) was an American cartoonist and underground comix artist. He was the creator of ''Dealer McDope'' and collaborated with Gilbert Shelton and Paul Mavrides on ''The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers''. As creative partner with fellow underground creator Fred Schrier, using the name "Overland Vegetable Stagecoach," they worked on ''Mother's Oats Funnies'', published by Rip Off Press from 1970 to 1976. Biography Born in 1943 and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area, Sheridan arrived in San Francisco, California in 1969 after having graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art and serving time in the military in Ethiopia. In California, he collaborated with fellow midwesterner Fred Schrier as the "Overland Vegetable Stagecoach" on three issues of ''Mother's Oats Comix'', two of ''Meef Comix'', and a one-shot title called ''The Balloon Vendor'', published by Rip Off Press and The Print Mint. Sheridan was the art editor for three iss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Schrier
Fred Schrier (born 1945 in Ohio) is an artist, writer, and animator, best known as partner to the underground comic book artist Dave Sheridan. Together, using the name "Overland Vegetable Stagecoach," they worked on ''Mother's Oats Comix'', published by Rip Off Press from 1970 to 1976. Schrier's work was also featured in ''Meef Comix'' (Print Mint) and ''The Balloon Vendor'' (Rip Off Press), and the anti-Nixon comics pamphlets ''Silent Majority Comics'' and ''Uncle Sam Takes LSD'' (both published by Rip Off Press). Schrier's solo appeared in '' Slow Death Funnies'' #1 (with J. Osborne and Gilbert Shelton), published by Last Gasp, ''Skull Comics'' #1 (Rip Off Press), and '' Yellow Dog'' #19, published in 1971 by The Print Mint. Schrier served with the Peace Corps in Afghanistan in the mid-1970s and the focus of his work changed afterward. Sheridan died of cancer at the age of 38 in 1982. An obituary by Schrier was published in the ACE periodical ''Changeling Times'', decorated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
God Nose
''God Nose'' is a 42-page American comic book produced in 1964 by Jack "Jaxon" Jackson and is considered one of the first underground comix. ''God Nose'' centers on philosophical discussions between God and the "fools he rules". Plot ''God Nose'' portrays God as an old man with a white beard and a crown, sitting on a golden throne in Heaven. He and Jesus discuss modern life, including such controversial topics as birth control and racism. At one point, Jesus returns to Earth to be a folk singer and to try out surfing. God also visits Earth, at one point materializing into the bedroom of a couple as they are about to make love. Publication history Jaxon's ''God Nose'' strip first appeared in the Florida college fanzine ''Charlatan'', where it was published from 1963 to at least 1966. In 1964, Jaxon collected a number of the previous strips, and printed 1,000 copies on a Xerox machine at the Texas State Capital print shop after hours. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayes Valley, San Francisco
Hayes Valley is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California. It is located between the historical districts of Alamo Square and the Civic Center. Victorian, Queen Anne, and Edwardian townhouses are mixed with high-end boutiques, restaurants, and public housing complexes. The neighborhood gets its name from Hayes Street, which was named for Thomas Hayes, San Francisco's county clerk from 1853 to 1856 who also started the first Market Street Railway franchise. Location Although its boundaries are ill-defined, Hayes Valley is generally considered to be the area north and south of Hayes Street between Webster (near Alamo Square) and Franklin (near the Civic Center) streets. Hayes Valley's commercial center comprises the section of Hayes Street running from approximately Laguna Street in the west to Franklin Street in the east, with extensions on perpendicular Gough and Laguna streets. As of April 2012, after changes to the district boundaries us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Printing Press
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a printing, print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in which the cloth, paper, or other medium was brushed or rubbed repeatedly to achieve the transfer of ink and accelerated the process. Typically used for texts, the invention and global spread of the printing press was one of the most influential events in the second millennium. In Germany, around 1440, the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable type, movable-type printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. Modelled on the design of existing screw presses, a single Renaissance movable-type printing press could produce up to 3,600 pages per workday, compared to forty by History of typography in East Asia, hand-printing and a few by scribe, hand-copying. Gutenberg's newly devised hand mould made possible the precise and rapi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Offset Printing
Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithography, lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic printing, planographic) image carrier. Ink rollers transfer ink to the image areas of the image carrier, while a water roller applies a water-based film to the non-image areas. The modern "web" process feeds a large reel of paper through a large press machine in several parts, typically for several meters, which then prints continuously as the paper is fed through. Development of the offset press came in two versions: in 1875 by Robert Barclay of England for printing on tinplate, tin and in 1904 by Ira Washington Rubel of the United States for printing on paper. Rubel's contemporary in Continental Europe was Kašpar Hermann, the author of the off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Company & Sons
Company & Sons was an early underground comix publisher based in San Francisco, ran by John Bagley. The company operated from 1970 to 1973, publishing a total of 15 titles, all but one of them consisting of a single issue. Company & Sons was the first publisher of the long-running anthology '' Young Lust'', edited by Jay Kinney & Bill Griffith. Other creators associated with Company & Sons included Rory Hayes, Dan O'Neill, Charles Dallas, Vaughn Bodē, Bobby London, and Larry Todd. History Company & Sons burst onto the underground comix scene in 1970 with five titles. First was Rory Hayes' ''Bogeyman Comics'' #3 (taking over the title from the San Francisco Comic Book Company), then Wink Boyer's ''Buzzard'', Boyer & Dave Geiser's ''Honky Tonk'', and the anthology ''Hee Hee Comics'' (which was produced "in conjunction with The San Francisco Comic Book Co., Gary E. Arlington, prop"). But the company hit pay dirt in October 1970 with Kinney & Griffith's '' Young Lust'', wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Print Mint
The Print Mint, Inc. was a major publisher and distributor of underground comix based in the San Francisco Bay Area during the genre's late 1960s-early 1970s heyday. Starting as a retailer of psychedelic posters, the Print Mint soon evolved into a publisher, printer, and distributor. It was "ground zero" for the psychedelic poster. The Print Mint was originally owned by poet Don Schenker and his wife Alice, who later partnered in the business with Bob and Peggy Rita. History Berkeley retailer Don and Alice Schenker started The Print Mint as a picture-framing shop and retailer of posters and fine art reproductions on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California, in December 1965, originally sharing a store with Moe's Books, but later on moving into a separate location down the block. Moe's Books owner, Moe Moskowitz, and the Schenkers had been friends back in New York City during the 1950s Beat era, so this association was a continuation of that connection. Schencker's first c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apex Novelties
The apex is the highest point of something. The word may also refer to: Arts and media Fictional entities * Apex (comics), a teenaged super villainess in the Marvel Universe * Ape-X, a super-intelligent ape in the Squadron Supreme universe *Apex, a genetically engineered human population in the TV series ''The Crossing'' * APEX Medical Hospital, a fictional hospital in the Filipino TV series '' Abot-Kamay na Pangarap'' Music * ''Apex'' (album), by Canadian heavy metal band Unleash the Archers * Apex (band), a Polish heavy metal band * Apex (musician) (1981–2017), British drum and bass music producer and DJ * The Apex Theory, the former name of the alternative rock band Mt. Helium *Lord Apex, a rapper from West London, UK Video games * Apex (tournament), a fighting game tournament focusing on ''Super Smash Bros.'' * '' Racing Evoluzione'', also known as ''Apex'', a 2003 video game for the Xbox * Overwatch Apex, a South Korean ''Overwatch'' tournament series * ''Apex Leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
